Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals.
A minor bestseller with a cult appeal, Fort's work was posthumously republished in the pulp science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934.
His idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers, many of them authors and editors of science fiction.
Fort's work prophesied the paranormal mainstays of SF literat.
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