Steinmeyer, Jim: Charles Fort The Man Who Invented the Supernatural ©2008 Jim Steinmeyer, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Penguin Books, England Hardcover, w/dj, 325 pages ISBN: 978-1-58542-640-9

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Comments: Not really a magic book, but by a magical author and may provide interesting topics for patter.Charles Fort was both a science and religion Skeptic, who wrote "The Book of the Damned"

Contents:

xi Author's Introduction

1 1. But the Damned Will March
15 2. Toddy’s Nose Bleeds So Readily
29 3. Littleness That Was No Longer There
42 4. We Wrapped the Piece of Cake to Keep Always
56 5. Blue Miles, Green Miles, Yellow Miles
71 6. We, Then a Great Famous Man
85 7. Anybody Could Write a True Story
100 8. Leaping Out of a Window, Head First
115 9. “To Work!" Cried Mr. Birtwhistle
129 10. X Exists!
145 11. A Battle Is About to Be Fought
159 12. It Is a Religion
175 13. Children Cry for It
189 14. The London Triangle
205 15. That Frog Would Be Cod
218 16. The World Has Cut Me Out—I Have Cut Myself Out
235 17. A Welcoming Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles
251 18. Not a Bottle of Catsup Can Fall Without Being Noted
268 19. Beginning Anywhere
280 20. Fall In! Forward! March!

299 Acknowledgments
303 Notes and Credits
323 Index