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The Book of the Damned

Charles Fort

36 CHAPTERS · 107,834 WORDS · ABOUT 407 MINUTES

Charles Fort's first catalogue of the data science 'damned' — falls of frogs and blood, lights in the sky, unexplained objects — assembled from scientific journals and newspapers. The book that gave the field the word Fortean.

SUBJECTSAnomalous phenomenaFalls from the skyUnidentified objectsScientific orthodoxy
TAGS#fortean#anomalies#ufo#falls#rains-of-frogs#unexplained#data-collection#scepticism#primary-source
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CONTENTS

  1. 1THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 111 MIN
  2. 2THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 211 MIN
  3. 3THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 312 MIN
  4. 4THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 412 MIN
  5. 5THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 511 MIN
  6. 6THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 611 MIN
  7. 7THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 712 MIN
  8. 8THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 812 MIN
  9. 9THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 911 MIN
  10. 10THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1012 MIN
  11. 11THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1112 MIN
  12. 12THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1211 MIN
  13. 13THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1311 MIN
  14. 14THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1411 MIN
  15. 15THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1512 MIN
  16. 16THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1612 MIN
  17. 17THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1711 MIN
  18. 18THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1811 MIN
  19. 19THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 1912 MIN
  20. 20THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2011 MIN
  21. 21THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2111 MIN
  22. 22THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2212 MIN
  23. 23THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2311 MIN
  24. 24THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2411 MIN
  25. 25THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED — part 2510 MIN
  26. 26Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 112 MIN
  27. 27Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 212 MIN
  28. 28Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 313 MIN
  29. 29Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 412 MIN
  30. 30Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 511 MIN
  31. 31Letter from Rev. W.R. Dawes: — part 611 MIN
  32. 32Letter from "A. Mc. D.": — part 111 MIN
  33. 33Letter from "A. Mc. D.": — part 212 MIN
  34. 34Letter from "A. Mc. D.": — part 311 MIN
  35. 35Letter from "A. Mc. D.": — part 412 MIN
  36. 36Letter from "A. Mc. D.": — part 56 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (The Book of the Damned). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #22472). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.