Charles H. Fort - Colonie, NY
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The grave of American author Charles Hoy Fort is located in section 28, lot 8 of Albany Rural Cemetery in the Village of Menands in Colonie, NY.
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Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/30/2018
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A 25' tall family monument topped with a life-size, robed female figure along ground level monument in the shape of a scroll marks the grave of author Charles Hoy Fort. The family monument has the name
FORT inscribed in raised letters at the bottom. A side panel has the names of Fort, his wife Anna, and brother Raymond. It is inscribed:
CHARLES H. FORT
1874 - 1932
HIS WIFE
1872 ANNA E. 1937
RAYMOND N. FORT
1876 - 1941
The ground level grave marker is inscribed: CHARLES H. FORT
Charles Hoy Fort was an influential American author who specialized in writing about anomalous, occult, and paranormal phenomena. His writings continue to inspire a following of people who are described as Forteans. Among his famous followers were lawyer Clarence Darrow and Pulitzer prize winning novelist Booth Tarkington. The adjective "Fortean" (definition: relating to or denoting paranormal phenomena) and the publication Fortean Times which investigates anomalous, occult, and paranormal phenomena, are named after Charles H. Fort.
Fort's most influential work was the The Book of the Damned published in 1919. The ideas presented within the book has had an enormous influenced on numerous science fiction writers. Fort is credited with coining the term "teleportation." Fort reported on topics including: unidentified flying objects, spontaneous human combustion, ghost, strange objects, and human disappearance. He was the first writer to suggest alien abduction by extraterrestrials and the first to suggest that unexplained lights seen in sky might be alien spacecraft.
Books by Charles Hoy Fort:
Many Parts, an autobiography (1901)
The Outcast Manufacturers, a novel (1909)
The Book of the Damned (1919)
New Lands (1923)
Lo! (1931)
Wild Talents (1932)
Posthumous works:
The Books of Charles Fort (1941)
Complete Books of Charles Fort (1998)
The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort (2008)