tastyintestines
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did fort have any connections to h.p. lovecraft?? im curious
Fort & Lovecraft?
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L. Sprague de Camp's biog of Lovecraft has this to say:
"He [Lovecraft] spoke highly of two recent non-fiction books: Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned (1919) and Margaret Alice Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921). His appreciation, however, was not what the authors would have hoped for. He admired the books as stimuli for the writing of weird fiction, not as statements of fact. From a scientific point of view, he considered Fort's eccentric cosmological ideas as nonsense."
"He [Lovecraft] spoke highly of two recent non-fiction books: Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned (1919) and Margaret Alice Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921). His appreciation, however, was not what the authors would have hoped for. He admired the books as stimuli for the writing of weird fiction, not as statements of fact. From a scientific point of view, he considered Fort's eccentric cosmological ideas as nonsense."
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The Whisperer in Darkness
from page 7"Two or three fanatical extremists went so far as to hint at the possible meanings in the ancient Indian tales which gave the hidden beings a nonterrestial origin; citing the extravagant books of Charles Fort with their claims that voyagers from other worlds and outer space have often visited the earth." Thanks barndad!!
from page 7"Two or three fanatical extremists went so far as to hint at the possible meanings in the ancient Indian tales which gave the hidden beings a nonterrestial origin; citing the extravagant books of Charles Fort with their claims that voyagers from other worlds and outer space have often visited the earth." Thanks barndad!!