In 1939 Eric Frank Russell first published the novel which became "Sinister Barrier", in which he names Fort explicitly as an influence. Russell included some of Fort's data in the story. Ivan T. Sanderson, Scottish naturalist and writer, was a devotee of Fort's work, and referenced it heavily in several of his own books on unexplained phenomena, notably "Things" (1967), and "More Things" (1969). Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier's "The Morning of the Magicians" was also heavily influenced by Fort's work and mentions it often. Author Donald Jeffries referenced Charles Fort repeatedly in his 2007 novel "The Unreals". Joe Milutis writes a short chapter in his book "Failure, a Writer's Life" on Charles Fort, characterising Fort's prose as "well-nigh unreadable, yet strangely exhilarating".