The Believer’s Ed Park reviews “Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural” for the LA Times: “[He] eyeballed miles of newsprint for accounts of odd phenomena: showers of shellfish and other inexplicably displaced objects, amnesiacs and sea creatures, statues exhibiting the stigmata and rooms dripping oil. He dubbed these occurrences “damned,” meaning that science, unable to fit them into its system, excluded them altogether… His researches grew into two manuscripts, “X” and “Y” … “Z” became the basis for “The Book of the Damned” (1919).”
“One theory of poltergeists — a theory that Sylvia Plath surely would’ve liked — has it that some teenage girls are overflowing with so much repressed fury and unexpressed sexual energy that they cause supernatural phenomena — chairs flying across the room, strange spontaneous bleeding…Her work exposes all of the worst humiliations of growing up female.” - really great piece by Elizabeth Bachner in Bookslut. See also Jessa’s comments
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