Lo! is the third nonfiction book by Charles Fort, published in 1931. Something of a return to form after his difficult second book, New Lands, it returns to themes addressed in The Book of the Damned; however, his source material in this and his next (and final) book, Wild Talents would increasingly come from newspapers rather than scientific journals. There are also examples of personal correspondence supporting his information. The book also includes a memorable demolition of an explanation for a fall of winkles that had posited a mad fishmonger throwing his wares about the streets of Worcester, England.
Chapters[]
As ever, Fort did not title his chapters. the following notes are a synopsis of the chapters' contents.
- Frog rains; worm rains; snail rains; the fishmonger of Worcester
- Theorising
- Manna
- Falls of water; falls of stones; slow falls of stones; rising objects
- object rains; Swanton Novers mystery
- Bleeding images; red substances
- Out-of-place animals
- Pluto
- The Jersey Devil; lake monsters; sea serpents and other strange creatures
- The Brown Mountain lights; luminous owls; mystery airships
- Flying luminous things
- Disappearing ships/crews; flying things
- Animal attacks; the Cavan wolf; the beast of Badminton; the beast of Orel.
- Animal attacks; Welsh lights; wave of paranormal events in Britain, 1904-5; the Hexham wolf; spontaneous human combustion; connections made with religious revival.
- Mysterious people: Princess Caraboo; Joseph Vorin; Cagliostro.
- Disappearing people
- Disappearing and appearing people; feral children;
- More appearing and disappearing people; Mrs. Guppy; teleportation; the Cumpston case.
- Kaspar Hauser
- Astronomy
- Theorising
- Palgues of insects
- Downpours and floods
- Earthquake lights and earthquake floods
- Volcano lights; stellar lights
- Before and after volcanoes
- New stars, disasters etc
- Volcanoes
- New stars, etc
- Nebulae
- More stars, etc
- A shell around the earth