The Book of the Damned

About this book

Frogs fall from the sky. Strange objects are reported where none should exist. Charles Fort collects the discarded anomalies of respectable knowledge and asks who decided that these stories were not worth keeping.

Drawing on newspapers, journals and scientific reports, Fort assembles a deliberately unruly archive of strange falls, unexplained lights and other anomalies. He writes with dry, combative humour and a deep suspicion of tidy theories. Under the jokes runs a persistent question about who decides which observations deserve to count as facts.