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The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic Newly Introduced by Pen Award-Winning Historian Mitch Horowitz
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ISBN13：9781722507473
出版社：G&D Media
作者：Charles Fort
出版日：2026/02/17
裝訂：平裝
規格：22.9cm*15.2cm*1.8cm (高/寬/厚)
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商品簡介
Charles Fort's founding classic of the paranormal
newly introduced by esoteric scholar Mitch Horowitz
The Book of the Damned shot like a comet--or something unknown in the sky--across the horizon of a complacent industrial world and its new faith in orthodox science in post-World War I America. Author Charles Fort (1874-1932) curated a registry of damned data: reports that philosophical materialism had excluded, such as strange airships in an era before UFOs; unknown beasts; blood, frogs, fishes, and stones falling to earth; floating islands; meteorites containing fossils; tools dropping from the skies; fairy coffins; lights on the moon; and strange figures moving across the sun. Fort revealed how dogmas and orthodoxies once associated with religion were reemerging within triumphant science itself. Whatever authorities could not explain, they condemned, ridiculed, or ignored. But philosopher-compiler Fort illuminated enduring nether-realms that modern man, secure in his manufactured certainties, insisted did not exist. With a new introductory essay, "Philosopher of the Damned," historian of the esoteric Mitch Horowitz situates Fort in literary history as a figure who, like Edgar Allan Poe, defined a genre--one so unclassifiable, yet omnipresent, that it bears the author's name: Fortean. Mitch further explores how Fort's insights into categories that physicalist science rejected presaged our own era--one of both new mysteries and new modes of insight. "Fort's work," he writes, "has not only endured into our age, but the outcast intellect influenced our quantum-entangled, binary-coded, multiversed conceptions of reality."
newly introduced by esoteric scholar Mitch Horowitz
The Book of the Damned shot like a comet--or something unknown in the sky--across the horizon of a complacent industrial world and its new faith in orthodox science in post-World War I America. Author Charles Fort (1874-1932) curated a registry of damned data: reports that philosophical materialism had excluded, such as strange airships in an era before UFOs; unknown beasts; blood, frogs, fishes, and stones falling to earth; floating islands; meteorites containing fossils; tools dropping from the skies; fairy coffins; lights on the moon; and strange figures moving across the sun. Fort revealed how dogmas and orthodoxies once associated with religion were reemerging within triumphant science itself. Whatever authorities could not explain, they condemned, ridiculed, or ignored. But philosopher-compiler Fort illuminated enduring nether-realms that modern man, secure in his manufactured certainties, insisted did not exist. With a new introductory essay, "Philosopher of the Damned," historian of the esoteric Mitch Horowitz situates Fort in literary history as a figure who, like Edgar Allan Poe, defined a genre--one so unclassifiable, yet omnipresent, that it bears the author's name: Fortean. Mitch further explores how Fort's insights into categories that physicalist science rejected presaged our own era--one of both new mysteries and new modes of insight. "Fort's work," he writes, "has not only endured into our age, but the outcast intellect influenced our quantum-entangled, binary-coded, multiversed conceptions of reality."
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