occultism

Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.

In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her "fae," or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Contains over three thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about significant people, movements, cultures, and phenomenon within the world of occultism and parapsychology, covering fifty-two topic areas, including animal magnetism, clairvoyance, haunting, mesmerism, raps, stigmata, and teleportation.

Shares more unusual aspects of American history, covering ancient mysteries, secret societies, and cemetery stories, and describing the nation's only self-proclaimed emperor, an alien attack on New Jersey, and other related topics.

An almanac of facts about witchcraft, ghosts, vampires, zombies, horror movies, superstitions, and other scary subjects.

Uses lexigrams, numerology, and other codes to reveal metaphysical insights into finances, work, health, and spirituality.