"Ghosts, spirits, and specters have played important roles in narratives throughout history and across nations and cultures. A watershed moment for this area of study was the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx in 1993, marking the inauguration of a "spectral turn" in cult…
The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth cent…
This title tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government records at the National Archives. Alongside extraordinary reports by ordinary people it reveals details of official interest and investigations stretching back to before the Firs…
Offers real-life accounts of UFO sightings recorded in files collected by Britain's Ministry of Defence investigation unit and currently held at the National Archives.
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able--and who in some instances thought themselves able--to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on …
Collection of essays arguing for the importance of reflecting on the separation between pseudoscience and sound science, known to philosophers as "the demarcation problem"--Publisher description.
"Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different tim…
"In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's bui…
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With ne…
Joe Dispenza draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform their lives. Readers will learn that we are, quite literally, beings of light; how we can tune in to frequencies beyond our material exp…
Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
Ontologist Frederick Dodson explores the hidden realities he has encountered in three decades of consciousness research. The fascinating topics of this book range from supernatural perception, paranormal events, near-death-experiences and the afterlife to mystical synchronicity …
A scholarly commentary, with translation and introduction, to Artemidorus' Oneirocritica, a treatise on dream-divination and interpretation. Providing insight into the ancient mind, it gives particular emphasis to the Oneirocritica's composition and construction, and intellectua…
"Practical Magic" is for the casual clairvoyant or the weekend witch. This charming entré into the mystical introduces readers to the wonders of modern magic, from crystals and astrology to chakras, dream interpretation and, of course, a few spells!
This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Journalist and adventurer William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead zombies to the West with this illustrated travelogue.
A wide-ranging overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alon…
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student …
A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain. Early modern Britain embraced many forms of the supernatural and took the absolute existence of a spiritual world for granted. Yet in the eighteenth cent…
When Drina Argenis, a rogue hunter from the Spanish side of the Argeneau family, is hired to bodyguard/babysit a teenage vampire, her teen charge decides to play matchmaker, setting her up with his other vampsitter, Harper Stoyan.
