Joshua Buhs

Nov 26, 2024 | publicdomainreview.org | Joshua Buhs |Kirsten Bakis |Colin Dickey

Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this book“, wrote one reviewer, “four will go insane”. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort’s early life, unfinished manuscripts (“X”, “Y”), and the philosophical monism that informed his research. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing.

Jun 24, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Joshua Buhs |Walter Isaacson |Jack Weatherford

Despite extensive research, this book is mainly for aficionados of the weird. An offbeat investigation of how the source code for conspiracy theories was written long ago. Charles Fort (1874-1932) is not a household name today, but his influence reaches deep into American life. In the early years of the 20th century, Fort began to collect newspaper articles about odd things or “anomalous reports”—e.g., rains of fish or stones, strange lights in the sky, contact with the dead, etc.