It features forts complete, unabridged text and a subject index. A harddrinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, streettough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers. The signature edition of charles forts classic of paranormal discoveryreset with a new index. The book of the damned is my favorite, not just for all the cataloging of various bits of it have inspired me in two of my novels.
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