occultism

In seventeenth-century Germany, a boy desperately wants to escape from a school for Black Magic where he is held captive by demonic forces.

Ronan Lynch, one of the "raven boys" from Aglionby Academy, can take things out of his dreams and into waking life. This power could prove useful in the raven boys' search for the burial site of a dead Welsh king named Glendower, who they think sailed to America a long time ago. However, now that Ronan's secret power is being used more often, a dark enemy had learned about it, and plans to use it for his own gain.

This book covers fortune-telling techniques and prophecy from the earliest civilizations throughout the world through modern attempts to predict upcoming events.

Learn about the ethereal, the other-worldly, and the unknown of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in this fascinating look at the supernatural in the modern world.

Learn about the beliefs and folklore of death, the apocalypse, and the afterlife of societies around the globe, including articles on heaven and hell, our fascination with the dead, the quest for immortality, and so much more.

A perceptive observer of American culture, Dr. Cooper writes to make the world of the occult better known to people who live outside it, and better understood to those within. He takes a look at such cults as those surrounding Bishp Pike, Charles Manson, and the movie Rosemary's Baby - and draws an intriguing connection between politics and mysticism, between sex and witchcraft, between escapism and involvement.