Charles Hoy Fort was born August 6, 1874, in Albany, New York and died on May 3, 1932 in the Bronx, New York. Most of his life was spent in New York except for the few years he lived In London during the twenties. He left home when he was 18 years old and married a former cook in his grandfather's home. They lived a rather impoverished life for the next twenty years with Fort earning a meager living as a journalist. When he was 42 years old he retired from his journalistic career after receiving a moderate inheritance. He then embarked upon a lifetime of researching obscure documentation of the bizarre and inexplicable occurrences which have long plagued our planet. He spent a total of 27 years conducting extensive research in the archives of the New York Public Library and the British Museum which ended only with his death. He scoured newspapers, scientific journals, periodicals, and manuscripts and took notes of each and every oddity that he encountered. He published four books of his research; The Book Of The Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents. These books are not particularly well-organized for the researcher but they do contain a wealth of information that is both entertaining as well as valuable.

Charles Fort's books are: The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents and New Lands. These books are currently available in a single, hard-bound edition entitled (not surprisingly): The Complete Books Of Charles Fort from Dover books. If, upon viewing Tales From The Fort, you decide that you would like to invest in this 1125 page (including index) book, please let me know by e-mail and I will send you the address for Dover, or you can special order it at any bookstore. BTW, Tales is not in any way associated with Dover Publications--- just appreciative that they have kept these works available to the public by keeping them in print.