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Charles Fort
Charles Fort: The Man who Invented the Supernatural | Jim Steinmeyer
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A seminal portrait of an influential early twentieth-century chronicler of the paranormal evaluates his role in challenging period orthodoxies associated with various supernatural phenomena, in an account that evaluates his investigations into both scientific and otherworldly theories. 15,000 first printing.
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400th anniversary this month of the magazine named after the subject of Steinmeyer‘s excellent biography. Before I read it I thought Fort was some sort of trickster figure but after I‘d finished I realised that he was actually a wonderfully eccentric figure who devoted his life to his extraordinary interests. A wonderful man, who once emigrated because he got banned from the library. My type of hero.

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