The Book of the Damned records over 1,000 events of the most mysterious and provoking character that have occurred in the world on which science has remained strangely silent. Such amazing phenomena as black rains, triangular clouds, discoveries of weird and ancient artifacts and ice falling from the sky have all been deliberately ignored by scientists.
Charles Fort's scathing attack on the blind dogmatism of science has provoked violent controversy... exciting the wrath of and evoking fervent support from some of the world's first-rate minds.

ABACUS edition first published in Great Britain 1973 by Sphere Books Ltd, 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8JL
Reprinted 1974
© Boni and Liveright 1919
© Holt, Reinhart and Winston Inc 1941

Published by arrangement with Mrs Tiffany Thayer.

'We all live within the ruins of an ancient structure, whose vast size has hitherto rendered it invisible. The entire surface of the earth is marked with the traces of a gigantic work of prehistoric engineering, the remains of a once universal system of natural magic, involving the use of polar magnetism together with another positive force related to solar energy' - John Michell

Modern research has revealed that the stone monuments of prehistoric antiquity are not the work of primitive barbarians, but are instead the scientific instruments of an advanced universal civilisation. The legendary continent of Atlantis was the source of this unified system of knowledge, whose relics still survive throughout the world - the dragon paths of China, Irish fairy paths, straight tracks in Europe and beyond, and the 'ley' system of aligned monuments which include Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid. Explaining their connection with traditional mathematical formulae, John Michell describes the fascinating system by which the ancient magicians claimed to manipulate the forces of the earth and the cosmos.