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The Book of the Damned

by Charles Fort

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  1. Chapter 1

    34:28

  2. Chapter 2

    15:27

  3. Chapter 3

    54:13

  4. Chapter 4

    27:50

  5. Chapter 5

    46:38

  6. Chapter 6

    43:21

  7. Chapter 7-a

    22:51

  8. Chapter 7-b

    22:59

  9. Chapter 8-a

    33:55

  10. Chapter 8-b

    31:58

  11. Chapter 9

    26:54

  12. Chapter 10

    27:07

  13. Chapter 11-a

    23:01

  14. Chapter 11-b

    24:39

  15. Chapter 12

    41:58

  16. Chapter 13-a

    31:30

  17. Chapter 13-b

    30:24

  18. Chapter 14-a

    28:18

  19. Chapter 14-b

    32:51

  20. Chapters 15-16

    32:54

  21. Chapter 17-a

    31:48

  22. Chapter 17-b

    38:59

  23. Chapters 18-19

    25:22

  24. Chapter 20

    30:33

  25. Chapters 21-22

    25:46

  26. Chapters 23-24

    27:06

  27. Chapters 25-26

    23:32

  28. Chapters 27-28

    31:04

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About this book

Charles Fort opens with a procession of "the damned", by which he means facts that orthodox science has shut out rather than explained. Across the chapters he gathers reports from journals and newspapers of his time: strange falls from the sky, odd weather, and lettered stones and markings found in rock and earth.

Fort writes in an argumentative, teasing voice. He insists that the lines between accepted and rejected data are arbitrary, comparing them to red shading into yellow through orange, and he seldom commits to one tidy explanation, preferring to let the evidence pile up and let the reader squirm.

Published in 1919, the book is filed under meteorology and astronomy. Readers pick it up today for its odd collection of historical curiosities and for its stubborn questioning of scientific certainty.

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Charles Fort

Charles Fort (1874-1932) was a researcher and writer from the United States who specialized in anomalous phenomena, also working as a novelist and autobiographer. The adjective Fortean is used for such phenomena, and parts of science fiction have drawn on his work. His titles include "The Book of the Damned".

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First published
1919
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
251
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Patrick McHaffie, Acacia Wood, Jc Guan and others