Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained
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Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained is a Dark Horse Comics comic book created by writer Peter Lenkov and artist Frazer Irving.
This marked Charles Fort's second major comic outing (he also appeared in comic form as the narrator of DC's The Big Book of the Unexplained [1] - the first being Necronauts also drawn by Irving.
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[edit] Plot
Its 1899 and as the end of the century draws near a strange killer lurks on the streets of New York. However, only famed anomalist Charles Fort's careful analysis of his news clippings reveals the pattern and further investigation revels some strange findings. At the same time he is monitoring some strange shooting stars, ably assisted by H.P. (a young H. P. Lovecraft) which leads to his encounter with an alien. Falsely accused of the murders, he has to team up with the extraterrestrial and find the real killer.
[edit] Charles Fort
Charles Fort was an early twentieth century American writer, philosopher and anomalist. In four books, between 1919 and 1932, he catalogued thousands of reports of anomalous phenomena, making important early contributions to ufology, cryptozoology and parapsychology.
[edit] Bibliography
Appearing in a four issue mini-series from, June to September 2002 by Dark Horse Comics, it has been reprinted as a graphic novel:
- Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Peter Lenkov and Frazer Irving, Dark Horse Comics, 2003 ISBN 1-56971-781-8 Titan Books, 2003 ISBN 1-84023-579-9)
[edit] Awards
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative (2002): Peter Lenkov for his work on Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (runner-up)
[edit] See also
Charles Fort also features prominently in:
