The Book of the Damned (Dover Occult) – Charles Fort Seizoensaanbieding

Flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, stigmata, poltergeists, spontaneous combustion: these are a few of the unexplained phenomena Charles Fort (1874-1932) labeled “damned,” his term for mysteries ignored or dismissed by scientific orthodoxy. This volume, based on 27 years of research, explores this gray area between science and fantasy. While his interpretations have been called “irregular, whimsical, mutually exclusive, elliptical and contrary,” Fort’s writing was admired by ma…