This site is an effort to organize the research of Charles Hoy Fort into a more easily utilized resource by gathering and placing under various subject headings the vast amount of information scattered throughout Fort's books. The information contained within these pages is gleaned from extensive study of the four non-fiction books published by Charles Fort in his lifetime.

 The information contained in Fort's books was gleaned by him through an exhaustive twenty-seven years of research in the New York Public Library and the library of the British Museum. Fort read through innumerable manuscripts, scientific journals, newspapers and magazines and noted every oddity he encountered. For many, the works of Charles Fort are as close as they will ever come to these original sources. This makes his work of added importance since, otherwise, this information would have been largely lost to the greater public.      

When it comes to anomalies of all kinds, Charles Fort, the "father of phenomenalism", shows us time and again what I have long held to be true: if you think something hasn't been seen before, it just shows that you don't know your history as well as you might. I hope you enjoy the site,

Marguerite L. M. Wolf

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.