occultism

Discusses the history of magic and its various influences and incarnations, from religion to science, the occult, illusion, and entertainment since prehistory, examining the appeal of the practice and how it is perceived by society.

From the day Pete comes to fix a leak in the house and his miniature ladder opens into a full-size one, a brother and sister experience a series of magical adventures.

When, at her stepmother's urging, Heather explores Wiccan spirituality, she not only becomes isolated from her Christian friends, she falls deeper and deeper into the occult and faces shocking betrayals and threats to her very life.

Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, stumble upon four freshly dug graves filled with empty coffins and uncover a group of sketchy vampires living in the graveyard, bringing trouble to Dullsville.

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.