Occult Nonfiction

“On Vampires: A Historical, Occult, and Paranormal Perspective” is an enthralling exploration into the dark and often misunderstood world of vampires. This comprehensive book delves deep into the origins and evolution of vampire lore from ancient myths to modern-day representations, providing readers with a detailed understanding of how these creatures have been viewed through various lenses of history, occult practices, and paranormal studies. Authored by a seasoned expert in supernatural folklore, the book begins with an examination of vampire myths in ancient civilizations, tracing ...

For three hundred years, Europe and its colonies hunted witches. Tens of thousands were tortured into confession and put to death — the overwhelming majority of them women. This Erato Press documentary edition assembles, in a single annotated volume, the texts that built the machine of persecution, the lone voice that tried to stop it, and the records of the most famous witch hunt of all. It is the persecution told, for once, through its own paper trail. THE PERSECUTORS' MANUALS • The Malleus Maleficarum — the notorious "Hammer of Witches," the handbook that taught inquisitors how to ...

“Fascinating . . . a serious, wide-ranging study of all the magical, mystical, and spiritual movements that have arisen and influenced American history in often-surprising ways.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World “A treasure trove.”—HuffPost From its inception...

Real cases. Real fear. 31 Nights of Terror: Volume I is not just another horror collection—it is a journey into the chilling depths of history’s most disturbing true accounts of hauntings, possessions, and murders. Each of the sixteen stories in this first volume is rooted in real events, drawn from witness statements, police reports, court records, and documented testimonies that continue to terrify decades later. These are not campfire tales or urban legends. These are the moments when ordinary life cracked open and something unexplainable—and often deadly—stepped through. ...

Explore the occult from ancient times to the modern day with one of its most respected scholars and practitioners. Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer delves into two millennia of tradition, from the earliest alchemists to pagan rituals; from the philosopher's stone to cabala, the first tarot, and the Knights Templar; and from the first horoscopes to fortune-telling trials and the birth of modern witchcraft, or Wicca.

Book 4 of The Paranormal Path by Victor Cross THEY DIDN'T CONQUER US. WE UPGRADED THE FARM FOR THEM. For decades, we have been trapped in the Cargo Cult of the 20th century. When we look at anomalies in our skies, our industrial biases lead us to assume they are the nuts-and-bolts hardware of advanced aerospace engineers. We desperately want to believe the enemy is an engineer bound by the laws of physics. We have been handed false comfort. In the explosive fourth volume of The Paranormal Path, Victor Cross completely dismantles the extraterrestrial mythos. The entities operating the Cosmic...

What if the ancient secrets of magic were never supernatural—but hidden neurobiology waiting to be decoded? For centuries, seekers have lost themselves in gilded cages of superstition. They memorized complex grimoires, vibrated ancient names, and drew protective circles to invoke gods, command demons, and manipulate subtle energies. Yet the true adept reaches a threshold where inherited systems no longer expand the mind—they restrict it. In Secrets of the Occult: The Architecture of Will, Magnus Barton strips away the velvet robes, dogmatic ritualism, and obsolete metaphors to reveal ...

A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. “The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its...

They do not hide in the dark. They hide in plain sight. For centuries, cultures have described human-shaped beings that can vanish at will—figures that shimmer, fold out of view, or simply stop being there. Folklore called them watchers, walkers between worlds, things that wear the shape of a person until the moment they decide not to. Modern reports use different language: cloaking, optical distortion, selective visibility. The descriptions keep lining up. In Cloaked, Nathan Crowe examines the phenomenon itself. Drawing on folklore, historical accounts, military and intelligence rumors, ...

I did not go to Mayong looking for a story. I went looking for the reason my own grandmother was afraid of a single word. Mayong is a real village in Assam, on the banks of the Brahmaputra, called by history books and frightened neighbors alike "India's black magic capital." An army of a hundred thousand men is said to have marched in and never marched out again. A Mughal general is said to have turned back before he ever reached it. And in one house at the edge of the village, an old healer called a bez agreed, for reasons he never fully explained to me, to let a stranger sit and watch. ...

If you have an appetite for the occult, consider this a feast. All of the authors in this collection have penned tales that deal with the supernatural and the supernormal. These include two novellas, "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen and "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood and 10 short stories.

I did not go back to Mayong for the village this time. I went back for the man. The first book showed you the outside of a healer's life. This one shows you what it costs him. Khenoram is a bez, a hereditary healer in Mayong, Assam, and for six more weeks he let me sit close enough to watch what the first book never showed. The refusals that haunt him more than any success. The brass box he has not opened since he was a young man, and will not explain. The family photograph that should have eleven people in it, and does not. The boy he has started quietly watching, without telling anyone ...

I have sat in cremation grounds at midnight, in temple storerooms where the caretaker unwraps a skull bowl only after three days of earned trust, and in a Bhairava shrine outside Varanasi where a priest still will not say plainly what his family has protected for generations. What I found, chasing this order across Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and the Himalayan regions, is a history far stranger and far more coherent than the caricature that has replaced it. The Kapalikas were real. For centuries they walked the burning grounds of the Indian subcontinent, ash-smeared, hair uncut, a ...

The Sorcerer Who Became a Saint explores one of the most unusual and enduring legends in Christian memory: the story of St. Cyprian of Antioch, a feared magician whose arts failed before the faith of a young Christian woman named Justina. Cyprian’s legend begins in the world of late antique ritual power, where learning, ambition, hidden knowledge, and spiritual danger often stood dangerously close together. Remembered as a man trained in forbidden arts, Cyprian becomes the figure people seek when ordinary means are not enough. His reputation rests on the belief that unseen forces can be ...

Black magic murders, Satanic sex cults, and demonic possession are the diabolical practices that grab the tabloid headlines and reinforce the myth that evil and an unhealthy obsession with the occult are to blame for our increasingly violent society. But is the truth even darker and more disturbing?

The occult whispers empty promises. What it delivers is Hell. From the author of Evil Unleashed and Demons Unleashed comes the most chilling collection yet: true accounts of demonic possession, oppression, cursed objects, and all manner of encounters with dark forces from the deepest reaches of Hell. In Hell Unleashed, John Harker rips the veil off polite skepticism to expose terrifying stories drawn from history, eyewitness testimony, and the front lines of modern exorcism. These are not Hollywood fictions. They are the horrifying experiences of ordinary people who opened doors that should...

SMALL TOWN MONSTERS — Second Edition: Fully Revised and Expanded Britain's true crime anthology of rural murder — now completely rewritten. Thirteen real murders. Thirteen British villages. Thirteen killers who hid in plain sight — protected not by distance but by silence. This fully revised Second Edition of Small Town Monsters takes thirteen cold cases and unsolved murders from across British history — 1806 to 2004 — and rebuilds each investigation from the ground up. Every chapter has been rewritten using court records, police files, coroner's inquests, and forensic archives. ...

I have said her name more times writing this book than I said it in twenty years of fieldwork before it. She was a Dalit woman in North India, assaulted by the men who owned the land her family worked, and offered no justice by any court, elder, or council that could have granted it. So she found a different kind of justice, one built at Kamakhya, among yoginis who trained her past the point where fear controlled her, into a woman five centuries of North Indian folk memory has never dared to soften. This is not a documented biography. It is folklore in the fullest, most serious sense of ...

This is a combined collection of the six previously released volumes in my series "True Stories of the Paranormal." The true tales featured in this tome range from the experiences people have had with the ghosts of loved ones who have passed on to the terrifying encounters others have endured at the hands of demons not of this world. Also included are stories of ghost animals, haunted houses, vengeful spirits, guardian angels and much, much more. Many of the stories you are about to read will warm your heart, while others will leave you in a cold sweat. Sit back and relax. Make sure you are...

For ages, people have been interested in the supernatural. Investigators and science researchers have written many books on the subject. The reality of the supernatural explains phenomena in a new light. Ghost sightings, poltergeists, angels, demons, the old hag syndrome and life after death are just some of the true personal accounts in these pages. Scientific research along with two thousand year old bible references mentioned to support some of these occurrences. For believers and skeptics!