
Books Archive


The Book Written by the Ghost of Mark Twain is Back from the Dead
Why We Love Being Scared: A Conversation with Psychologist and Author Coltan Scrivner

A Glimpse Behind the Sideshow Curtain: Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown

Oscar Wilde Goes Wild from the Afterlife

The Martians are Coming! Author David Baron Speaks About His New Book, “The Martians”

The Strangest Book on Earth: Take a Peek Behind the Sideshow Curtain with Showman C. M. Christ

A Fatal Case of the Famed Bullet Catch

Why Do Sword Swallowers Do It? Hear It Straight From Their Steel-Guzzling Mouths in the To The Hilt Podcast.

Most Books Hope to Inspire You. This One Strongly Warns Against It.

Cults, Cryptids, and Cursed Objects: One Quirk Author Interviews Another

An Interview with a Horror Historian: Jeremy Dauber, Author of “American Scary”

“Atlas of Paranormal Places” Enlightens Dark Tourists
The Case For Spirit Photography is Back From the Dead

Warnings from Jupiter, and Other Extraterrestrial Experiences from Contactees of the 1950s

Just One of Hereward Carrington’s Many Adventures in Spiritualism

We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies

Werewolf Stories to Tell Under a Full Moon (or Any Moon)

A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment

Selections from The Book of Wonderful Characters

Thirteen Favors Given by a Hangman

A Conversation with the Dead About Levitation

Remembering the Forgotten Georgia Wonder: Mattie Lee Price

Peek Inside the Life of a 1930s Sideshow Star: The Rubber Skin Lady’s Scrapbook is Now For Sale

The Ghosts of Dickens’s Past

Houdini’s Tales of Sword Swallowers, Fire Eaters, Poison Defiers, Human Ostriches, and Other Miracle Mongers

Haunted Sites, Miraculous Mediums, and Spirits Through the Centuries in Your Weird Historian’s New Book, “Chasing Ghosts”

For Those Who Like Reading about the Writing of the Insane

Jack the Ripper, Hypnotism, and Murderous What-Ifs

Roadside Attractions and Other Curiosities with Ambassador of Odd, Tim O’Brien

Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available

Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea

Cheers! From Mars! A Conversation About Alcohol in Space with Explore Mars CEO, Chris Carberry.

The Art of the Art of Magic: An Interview with Philip David Treece

“We Don’t Have Meat Here” and Other News from the Afterlife

Excerpt from The Talking Dead: An Interview with Abe Lincoln
The Sight of Hell is Now On Sale—For Under Ten Bucks
Everything You Need to Know About Spirit Slate Writing and, of course, Kindred Phenomena

Launching Everywhere on Earth: The Big Book of Mars

How to See Ghosts in the Comfort of Your Own Home

Satan, the Rumplestiltskin of the Devil’s Bible

Fun and Horror with Ventriloquism Through History

A Fiery Tour of Hell for Children and other Youngsters

Four Crappy Ailments Once Believed to Have Been Cured by Reptile Poop

Blood Rushed to Their Heads, And Sometimes Beyond: Meet the Victorian Ceiling Walkers

True Ghost Stories, According to Psychic Investigator Hereward Carrington

Murder, Accidental Deaths and Other Misfortunes When Hypnosis Goes Wrong

A Peek into The Haunted Houses of Camille Flammarion

The 360th Anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s Afterlife

Benjamin Franklin Outwits Death and Keeps Writing Clever Aphorisms

Just a Simple Case of Poltergeist from 1925

Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem from the Spirit World

The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel

God Told This Man to Fast for 52 Days, Then Let Him Drink Squirrel Soup

