The name Charles Fort may not be familiar to many, so perhaps H.P. Lovecraft will ring a few more bells. Some of Lovecraft’s works were influenced by the scientific work of American writer and ...

Charles Fort lived a century ago but is still invoked fairly frequently today: the "inspired clown" (as the screenwriter and playwright Ben Hecht called him) who haunted the New York Public Library, ...

It was Charles Fort’s proudest moment when, in 1920, he walked into the New York Public Library and picked up a copy of his just-published work, The Book of the Damned. But when he asked the librarian ...

The holy grail of the author’s own collector’s quest is the 1961 1s 3d Parliamentary Conference stamp, which he recalls as being “the most beautiful small object I had ever seen” as a boy. On this ...

Evan Spiliotopoulos is writing the adaptation of the Dark Horse comic. By Jay A. Fernandez, Borys Kit Zemeckis has closed a deal to move his production company, Imagemovers, to Universal in a two-year ...

Visitors and residents of Kinsale report sightings of a spectral bride at Charles Fort who, according to legend, threw herself from the ramparts after her husband was accidentally shot and her father ...

The book in fact was not rare, having been put out by a major publisher a generation earlier, but it possessed a forbidding title: “The Book of the Damned.” The author was Charles Fort. “By the damned ...

Most British people will know Charles Fort's name through the idiosyncratic magazine Fortean Times, or the Fortean TV series, with leather-clad biker vicar Lionel Fanthorpe. Fort would have been ...