The Stigmata: Now Available!

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This fine little work is a compilation of tales of the Stigmata as reported over the course of centuries by the Catholic church. The phenomenon itself is the appearance of marks on the body commensurate with the wounds imparted on Jesus during crucifixion. Regardless of whether you believe in such a phenomenon, it's a very valuable bit of history pertinent to the Catholic church and some of the stories are quite supernatural (such as levitation and religiously significant marks on the heart upon dissection.)

130 pages.

The Incubus: Now Available!

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This short work is partially about nothing more technically supernatural than the topic of sleep paralysis, also known in colloquial terms at the time as the night-mare. This frightening topic is, literally speaking, not yet even quantified fully by science so I suppose that element is still of occult import; but of greater interest here are two other subtopics; herbal preparations for the condition, and a bit of back-story and lore regarding the older, demonic principle of the incubus supposedly responsible for such a phenomenon. This work is over 200 years old but displays a fairly advanced amount of rational insight.

56 pages.

Essays in Occultism: Now Available!

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This work is quite nice, and was written from a dedicated Catholic perspective- indeed, the slow march of time has seen some of these feasibly canonical ideas cast aside by the Vatican even as they are retained by lay Catholics in large part- such as a belief that seances and ouija boards can actually cause demonic influence. These days the church itself tends to render those to the realm of quasi-sinful but not paranormally dangerous.

It provides numerous examples of mystical phenomena like bilocation and bicorporeality as well, and gives many short stories and tales to illustrate its claims. In one very interesting passage we see a story about a priest who became cataleptic only for his apparition to be seen attending the then-dying pope.

107 pages.

Apparitions, Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses: Now Available!

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"Apparitions-" is a wonderful compilation of folklore that was actually written from the perspective of one who wished to expose spook stories as frauds and interesting bugbears. This is actually important; the work is then also a cautionary message for those who accept the spiritual, not to accept it all at face value but to utilize their reasoning abilities to determine if any particular tale is true. I do this for occult and cryptozoological topics myself; I accept for example the existence of extra terrestrial life but find very few sightings of flying saucers to have any legitimacy.

Some of these tales are actually hilarious also, such as a prank involving the use of phosphor to  create ghostly messages to frighten house guests or the time a man with a red rain cloak was mistaken for a specter, scaring an entire village in the process.

176 pages.

Folklore, Cryptozoology, and Mythology Books for Sale

The following is a continuously edited list of books about folklore, cryptids, and mythology which I have edited and released. All links are to Amazon, where I have self published my works.

THE BOOK OF WEREWOLVES
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A fine work by Baring-Gould on lycanthropes, cannibalism, and berserkers. 

LORE OF THE UNICORN
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Shepard's great work on the history, symbolism, and legend of the unicorn.

THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE SHOE
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An interesting folkloric look at the use of horse shoes, salt, and animals in superstition.

DRAGONS AND DRAGON LORE
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An extremely good look at Chinese, Hindu, and European dragon lore.

THE BOOK OF HALLOWEEN
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A good compilation of history and folklore related to Halloween and its prior counterparts.

MAGIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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A good look at the witch trials, cryptids, and ritual magick by Rydberg.

MESMERISM, SPIRITUALISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND MIRACLES
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A nice work by Putnam on spirits, Salem, mesmerism, and other related paranormal topics from a dedicated spiritualist perspective.

ANIMISM THE SEED OF RELIGION
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An interesting booklet categorizing the evolution of folklore and spiritual systems.

GHOSTLY PHENOMENA
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A collection of ghostly reports by the author and others, with some opinions about psychic and spiritual phenomena like mediums and automatic writing.

WERWOLVES
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A lengthy work containing dozens of folk tales on the topic of lycanthropes.

FLOWER LORE
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An excellent work showing the use of flowers in folklore and religious myth.

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE
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A collection of stories from the authors' childhood in Scotland, some with a religious or cryptozoological bent.

THE DWARFS OF MOUNT ATLAS
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A short work dealing with reports of pygmies with magical properties in mountains central Morocco.

ANCIENT CURES, CHARMS, AND USAGES OF IRELAND
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A rabidly pro-Irish nationalist text that contains spooky stories, proverbs, herbal remedies, and more.

SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT ANIMALS
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A mixture of stories, poetry, and more, regarding animals often in supernaturalmanners, as well as some cryptids.

CELTIC RELIGION
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A short work on the basics of the Celtic religion including the Druids.

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
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A somewhat linguistic work on Celtic spiritual systems.

APPARITIONS GHOSTS HOBGOBLINS AND HAUNTED HOUSES
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An obtusely titled but excellent series of short tales involving various paranormal misidentifications and hoaxes.

SIGNS, OMENS, AND SUPERSTITIONS
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A compilation of divination, simple folklore, good and bad luck charms, and much more.

MAGIC AND MYSTERY
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A skeptics' look at homeopathy, fairies, and various superstitions.

THE VEIL OF ISIS
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A lengthy expose on the Druids, Isis worship, Phallism and folklore from ancient and then-modern times.

THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE
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A short work detailing the history of fairy lore as applied to Shakespeares' works.

THE POWER OF GEMS AND CHARMS
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A laundry list of charms, talismans, and good luck symbols, and their usages.

A BOOK OF GIANTS
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A work on giants in mythology from the Norse, Homer, the middle ages, and more.

THE SUPERNATURAL IN ROMANTIC FICTION
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A very dense compilation of folklore, including Arthurian and ancient as well as then-modern.

POEMS OF PAGANISM
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A compilation of poetry with a pagan twist. Mostly romantic and quasi-folkloric.

BIRDS IN LEGEND AND FOLKLORE
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A long work compiling centuries of avian folklore from a hundred or more cultures.

POPULAR HOME REMEDIES AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS
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A dense collection of superstition, some derived from Hohmans' "Pow Wows" and the "Egyptian Secrets" of Albertus Magnus.

FOLKLORE, SUPERSTITION, AND CHARMS
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A compilation of material from dozens of sources covering folk rites, hexes, talismans, folklore about luck and prognostication, and more.

SYMBOLIC MYTHOLOGY
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A work on symbol usage in religion and spiritual systems, including lore about animals, pillars, rings, etc.

IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
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A collection of folk tales, mythology, and proverbs from pre-modern Japanese culture.

A WORLD OF WONDERS
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A compilation of folklore and myth ranging from alchemy to lycanthropy, from astrology to pseudoscience.

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND
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A compilation of Scottish ghost stories, cryptozoology, and superstitions.

ENGLISH FOLKLORE
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A collection of folk tales and superstitions, plus ghost stories and more, from peasant England.

FAIRIES
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A slightly romanticist compilation of poetry and prose involving fairies, but also elves and other such beings.

BEGINNINGS: OR GLIMPSES OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS
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A collection of lore from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Vedic writings, and the work of Donnelly, heavily related to Atlantis and seeking to describe the origins of civilization.

CONTENTIONS WITH GOD
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A compilation of mostly humorous examples of people suing the Jewish god or complaining of contradictions in Torah and similar law.

AMERICAN INDIAN FREEMASONRY
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A short booklet relating some native myths and their spiritual overlap with Masonic concepts.

ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
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A work containing an anthropological dissertation on fairy folklore and etymology, plus some classic fairy tales.

FISHES OF FANCY
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A compilation of aquatic folklore, from fishes and crabs to dolphins and more.

JEWISH FOLKLORE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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A short work by Moses Gaster. One part short folk tales, one part analysis of the same.

CISTERCIAN LEGENDS OF THE 13TH CENTURY
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A fine collection of Cistercian folk tales ranging from the pedestrian to the supernatural.

CURIOSITIES OF OLDEN TIMES
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A large collection of interesting and strange folklore, by Sabine Baring-Gould.

HISTORIC GHOSTS AND GHOST HUNTERS
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A compilation of spirits and ghosts in folklore. Strange stories.

General Update Time! New Works in Progress, etc

It hasn't quite been two weeks but I figure shaving a couple days off won't hurt anyone.

The first news to report is a new work that will be ready tomorrow; the infamous "Stanzas of Dzyan" by Blavatsky, a short treatise she claimed was translated from Tibetan occult works which loosely relates to Buddhism. I decided to edit and release this manuscript not because of any support of Blavatsky (she was a fraud!) but because of the importance of some of her works in shaping pre-modern Victorian occultism. This facet of the spiritual history of that era can't be denied; indeed her works were powerful enough to begin influencing human reality even long after her death.

The second news is that I'm editing the strange, Atlantean-style "City of the Sun" by Tomasso; added to this will be another work by Baring-Gould on ghost lore, a new Leland work on Etruscan culture, and the last three Phallic works. I've obtained a few new alchemical manuscripts also, and a slew of new material on demonology which always seems to be popular, demonology being of course the one field that virtually all cultures agree is interesting within spiritual paths.

I am also going to begin writing part II of "Sickness in Hell" next week; I will give an estimate of its length and when it will be ready at some later date. I have to return to working on "Macabre Tales" as well.

A Slew of New Work

Coming soon: Johannes Trithemius' "The Art of Drawing Spirits Into Crystals"- a sort of short-ish grimoire and similar in infamy and length to De Septum Secundeis- these two works form the twin counterparts to the Steganographia and never obtained the level of fame of this much longer, Latinized work. I have already fully edited this manuscript and it will be released in two days.

In addition to this July release, I am looking forward to another double release; the Universal Fortune Teller, an 1860 work similar to the Oraculum, and a work on mesmerism and hypnotism of note from the 1930s which I scanned from my very own collection.

In addition to these two notable works of paranormal Americana, I want to begin the Nigromancia as soon as possible due to its fame, alongside beginning Sickness in Hell; it needs to take rough form before October, which is for obvious reasons the best month for editing works of darkness.