Category: Occult

By Pamela J. Stewart

ISBN-10: 0511165862

ISBN-13: 9780511165863

ISBN-10: 052100473X

ISBN-13: 9780521004732

ISBN-10: 0521808685

ISBN-13: 9780521808682

Vintage issues in social anthropology are mixed during this work--the research of witchcraft and sorcery and the research of rumors and gossip. After revealing the significance of rumor and gossip as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, it demonstrates their function within the genesis of social and political violence, as obvious in peasant rebellions, in addition to witch-hunts. The learn attracts upon examples from Africa, Europe, India, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

By Dora van Gelder Kunz, Caitlin Matthews

ISBN-10: 0835607798

ISBN-13: 9780835607797

By Gregory Little, John Van Auken, Lora Little

Ebook Description
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
Dr. Gregory Little and John Van Auken current this tale in an soaking up narrative of the legends of Atlantis and the most recent discoveries within the ongoing look for remnants of the misplaced continent. The ebook includes over 100 illustrations –some by no means released earlier than. incorporated within the tale of Atlantis are vignettes of the forgotten lands of Mu, Lemuria, Og, Zu, and plenty of others.

By Brian Keene

ISBN-10: 1428508120

ISBN-13: 9781428508125

One morning the citizens of Walden, Virginia, awakened to discover the remainder of the area long past. simply . . . long past.

Surrounding their city was once a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into everlasting evening. not anything can get in - no longer gentle, now not humans, no longer even electrical energy, radio, television, net, foodstuff, or water. And not anything can get out. nobody who dared to penetrate the mysterious barrier has ever been visible back. merely their screams have been heard.

But for a few, the darkness isn't the worst in their fears. pushed mad via thirst, starvation, and perpetual evening, the citizens of Walden are able to explode. the previous few sane prisoners of this small city needs to arrange a last stand opposed to their pals, themselves, and whatever even worse . . . anything available in the market . . . within the darkness . . .

By Roy Bainton

ISBN-10: 1780337965

ISBN-13: 9781780337968

New mysteries, in addition to diversifications on ordinary ones, proceed to floor on a weekly foundation world wide, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines every thing from the experiments being performed with the massive Hadron Collider to vintage maritime mysteries concerning inexplicably lacking crews, through UFOs, mediums, cryptozoology, panics, paranoia and a universe proving stranger actually than we would imagined.

By S. T. Joshi

ISBN-10: 1440649405

ISBN-13: 9781440649400

The final word number of bizarre and scary American fiction.

As Stephen King will attest, the recognition of the occult in American literature has in simple terms grown because the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural stories celebrates the richness of this practice with chilling contributions from a number of the nation's brightest literary lighting, together with Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of path- Stephen King. through turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, it is a frighteningly sturdy addition to Penguin Classics.

By Sylvia Browne

ISBN-10: 1401900852

ISBN-13: 9781401900854

For these people who've continuously been fascinated about the unexplained—or inadequately explained—secrets and mysteries of this global, Sylvia Browne now brings her nice perception. utilizing a mixture of data from her spirit advisor Francine in addition to her personal very good psychic powers, Sylvia augments present medical learn to supply us with targeted factors approximately seeming inexplicable ideas. From the nice Pyramid to Stonehenge, Sylvia unearths remarkable proof approximately a number of the world’s so much mysterious websites. the reality in the back of sacred and arguable gadgets comparable to the Shroud of Turin and the Holy Grail are dropped at gentle; and interesting and mystifying themes resembling crop circles, the misplaced Continent of Atlantis, UFOs, Easter Island, and lots more and plenty extra are tested and clarified. Sylvia tears away the vague and timeworn motives that cover the underlying truths approximately those interesting matters.

By Vicki Pettersson

ISBN-10: 0060898933

ISBN-13: 9780060898939

at the floor she's a lovely, subtle socialite, at domestic one of the attractive humans of the Las Vegas higher crust. yet Joanna Archer inhabits one other global: a spot usual people can't see . . . a deadly size the place an everlasting conflict rages among the brokers of sunshine and Shadow. And Joanna is either.

Stalked via an enigmatic doppelganger from a preternatural realm, Joanna can suppose the sunshine failing—which is propelling her towards a terrifying disagreement with the final word grasp of evil, the darkish lord of Shadow: her father .

Vegas is all approximately profitable huge . . . or wasting every little thing. to save lots of her pals, her destiny, her worlds, Joanna Archer needs to gamble all of it via absolutely embracing the darkness within her.

By James McGee

ISBN-10: 0007212666

ISBN-13: 9780007212668

ISBN-10: 0007212674

ISBN-13: 9780007212675

ISBN-10: 0007212682

ISBN-13: 9780007212682

ISBN-10: 000723645X

ISBN-13: 9780007236459

ISBN-10: 0007343442

ISBN-13: 9780007343447

ISBN-10: 0750526068

ISBN-13: 9780750526067

Regency London is vividly dropped at reside during this notable page-turner, the 1st in a chain of old thrillers that includes Bow road Runner Matthew Hawkwood - a posh and interesting hero. removing highwaymen used to be no longer the standard shield of a Bow highway Runner. because the so much imaginitive of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood used to be shocked to be assigned the case - whether it did contain the homicide and mutilation of a naval courier. From the squalor of St Giles Rookery, London's infamous den of theives and cutthroats, to the palatial houses of the aristocracy the place knights of the area behavior themselves in a way unbecoming to their rank, Hawkwood relentlessly pursues his quarry. and because the case unfolds, and one other physique is found, the genuine schedule at the back of the theft starts off to emerge: the stolen naval dispatch pouch held information of a French plot that, if profitable, will ship the Royal Navy's whole fleet scurrying to port in terror, leaving Napoleon to rule the waves. without manner of understanding who may be depended on, Hawkwood needs to have interaction in a determined race opposed to time to avoid the profitable execution of the Emperor's plot.

By John Michael Greer

ISBN-10: 1578634318

ISBN-13: 9781578634316

Have you misplaced a big item? Are you taking over a brand new activity? trying to find buried treasure? The paintings and perform of Geomancy teaches readers the best way to divine the solutions to life’s daily questions on health and wellbeing, good fortune, new jobs, and love, in addition to these much less mundane projects resembling discovering buried treasure, predicting the elements, being published from felony, and picking out mystery enemies. Greer grants to readers an old process of divination in an easy-to-use shape requiring little greater than a pen and a bit of paper. utilizing a procedure of counting ordinary or even numbers—from a deck of playing cards, a roll of the cube, or maybe through hitting sand or airborne dirt and dust with a keep on with generate patterns—readers methods to forged their very own geomantic chart. And if you happen to desire to delve extra, he bargains routines for geomantic meditation and formality magic. The paintings and perform of Geomancy will entice pagans, fans of the Western secret culture, students of folks magic and divination, and an individual who desires to take their earlier, current, and destiny into their very own fingers.