4 good links
- The Charles Fort Institute
Includes a detailed timeline of his life
- Mr. X, Consulting Resologist
Info on Fort, and loads of hypertext versions of his work
- The International Fortean Organization
Join or learn about their annual conferences of the weird
- The Fortean Times
Popular online version of the journal, famous throughout cyberspace
Charles Fort Biography
Charles Hoy Fort was a writer who spent his time at the library, taking notes from scientific journals and formulating a response to what he considered their suppression of anomalous data. Helped along by American writer Theodore Dreiser, Fort published The Book of the Damned in 1919, a collection of weird stories he had come across in his research, followed by New Lands (1923) and Lo! (1931). "Fortean" organizations sprang up after Fort's death, furthering a tradition of distributing stories of the bizarre as a jab in the ribs of the scientific community. Some consider Fort the father of paranormal studies, some consider him simply an avid collector of weird tales.
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