<ul> <li>This edition includes the following editor&#39;s analysis:<i> </i><i>The importance of &quot;The Book of the Damned&quot; as a precursor of pseudoscience</i></li></ul><br />Originally published in 1919, &quot;The Book of the Damned&quot; is historically considered to be the first book written in the specific field of <i>anomalistics</i>. This unique work was written by American writer and researcher specialized in anomalous phenomena Charles Fort.<br /><br />Confused by the title, many readers bought &quot;The Book of the Damned&quot; thinking it was a crime and mystery novel. Undoubtedly, its contents would be the strangest thing they had ever read. The twenty-eight chapters rattled off a series of documented and real, but unbelievable events: rain of stones, metallic objects found inside coal mines or inside the bark of a tree, animals of impossible shapes, meteorites of unknown chemical composition, vision of unidentified celestial bodies...