Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this book“, wrote one reviewer, “four will go insane”. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort’s early life, unfinished manuscripts (“X”, “Y”), and the philosophical monism that informed his research.

This great article begins with the best Fort bio I’ve seen, from an abusive father to travelling 30,000 miles when he was 19, to the book which brought him to considerable fame.

Damned if you won’t like it!!