New Books and Media

From the back cover: After nearly two decades investigating reports of paranormal activity in private homes, I can say with certainty that most cases have logical explanations. In fact, skepticism is the first rule of any serious investigation. But not all cases end this way. Between Fear and Fact documents real investigations conducted by Archangel Paranormal Society, cases where witnesses, data, and recorded evidence refused to align with conventional explanations. These are not stories of haunted mansions or abandoned asylums. They are ordinary homes, occupied by ordinary families, where something quietly disrupted their sense of safety. Blending firsthand accounts, investigative methodology, historical context, and scientific limits, this book does not ask you to believe. It asks you to examine. Because belief proves nothing. Evidence deserves attention. And sometimes, despite every rational explanation, something remains.

From the publisher's website: The Therapeutic Afterlife: Spirituality and the New Sacred provides a compelling and original analysis of how contemporary self-help literature is transforming our ideas about God, the soul, and life after death. As more people identify as “spiritual but not religious,” these concepts—once grounded exclusively in formal religious traditions—are now recast in the language of healing, growth, empowerment, and wellness, reshaping both spirituality and health discourses in the 21st century.

Topics explored include after-death communication, near-death experiences, reincarnation, past-life memories, karma, mediumship, paranormal trauma, out-of-body experiences, suicide, angel therapy, demonology, spirit possession, clinical exorcism, psychic abilities, and more. The study shows how these themes are integrated into therapeutic culture, reframing the afterlife as an essential part of a holistic, transformative approach to living—one that challenges conventional psychotherapeutic frameworks, secular worldviews, and traditional religion. It offers a novel examination of the popular ‘afterlife therapeutic’ as indicative of a profound re-enchantment of society.

Further information at the publisher's website: Routledge.

From the back cover: This book approaches the persistent allure of the paranormal not with dogma or dismissal, but with a spirit of rigorous scientific inquiry and a critical, evidence-based perspective. Designed for readers with no prior knowledge, it demystifies the scientific investigation of psi phenomena, including:

• Extrasensory Perception (ESP): Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
• Psychokinesis (PK): The mind's purported ability to influence physical matter.

From the back cover: Outrageous Synchronicity is a captivating memoir that will challenge conventional paradigms and inspire the reader to a deeper knowledge of life and relationships. Offering a unique blend of the mystical and the everyday, it traces one woman's life-changing journey as she seeks truth and knowledge in the face of personal upheaval and grief.
Judith Crichton seemed to have it all - success as a senior executive in a major international financial firm, a young family, and a sharp, analytical mind. But a single extraordinary event in her early forties shattered her sense of reality and launched her into a world of psychic insight, spiritual awakenings, and synchronicities too precise to ignore. In an engaging narrative, she chronicles incidents from telepathy and precognition to near-death and shared-death experiences and explores leading science behind them.

From the publisher's website: Paranormal Media – Beyond Hauntology is an investigation of paranormal media and its pervasive influence on popular culture. By examining the intersection of the supernatural and media with transnational examples this book sheds light on how paranormal phenomena from ghosts to cryptids captivate our collective imagination. Drawing on psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and history this interdisciplinary approach unravels the complexities of our fascination with the paranormal. The chapters investigate key concepts including hauntology, the uncanny, and the role of technology in shaping our understanding of paranormal media. Readers are invited to explore critical questions: How do paranormal beliefs shape cultural narratives? What role does media play in perpetuating these beliefs? And how do these phenomena reflect our deepest fears and desires? By engaging with these questions the book offers a nuanced and challenging perspective on the enduring allure of the paranormal.

Further information at the publisher's website: Palgrave Macmillan.

From the publisher's website: More than just a familiar sense, moments of déjà rêvé (meaning “already dreamed”) are tied to specific dreams, often inspiring life changes. Daniel Bourke presents accounts of déjà rêvé from ancient folktales, historical letters, and modern internet reports. He documents dream-related folklore practices, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future lover.

Further information at the publisher's website: Destiny Books.

From the publisher's website: Originally published in 1887 by researcher Richard Hodgson and amateur magician Samuel John Davey, The Mal-Observation Report is a classic of psychical research that remains startlingly relevant to modern psychology. This 292-page volume brings together two seminal papers that revealed how performance magic methods can be used to reveal surprising limits and eccentricities of human minds.

Further information at the publisher's website: Curious Publications.

From the back cover: Those looking for a collection of amazing anecdotes about the so-called paranormal will be disappointed: this is a serious book for serious, inquisitive, intelligent readers. With a language that is both accessible and rigorous, and with the aim of combating prejudice and misinformation, the author, a medical doctor and university researcher, systematically reviews 50 peer reviewed scientific papers capturing the state of the art of research on alleged psychic phenomena such as telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis and remote viewing.

Review by Nemo C. Mörck.

From the back cover: It's dead silent-then a sharp bang rattles the walls. A cold breath brushes your neck. You spin around, but nothing's there. Poltergeists arrive without warning. They tear through the quiet, leaving terror in their wake. For centuries, people have endured this nightmare. From the mocking knockings of Cock Lane to the vicious assaults of the Bell Witch, from the haunted rooms of Epworth Rectory to the relentless siege of the Enfi eld case, the poltergeist has made itself known... and feared. Here you will encounter the Black Monk of Pontefract, one of Britain's most terrifying modern hauntings; the meticulous research of famed ghost-hunter Harry Price; and the groundbreaking interpretations of Colin Wilson, whose ideas continue to shape how we understand the unexplained. In this unnerving study, John West steps into the heart of these disturbances, piecing together historical records, eyewitness accounts, and chilling modern parallels. Are poltergeists the dead, the living, or something far older-something that feeds on fear?

Further information at the publisher's website: Arima Publishing.

From the back cover: À la fin du XIXe siècle, Camille Flammarion, célèbre astronome et fervent spirite, mène une enquête discrète sur d’étranges manifestations survenues dans un manoir du Calvados. Cris nocturnes, déplacements inexpliqués d’objets, bris de vaisselle, apparitions… Une famille entière, des prêtres, des voisins et des serviteurs assistent, pendant plus d’un an, à une série d’événements troublants. 

Flammarion évoquera brièvement cette affaire dans Les maisons hantées en 1923, mais il ne publiera jamais l’ensemble des documents dont il disposait : lettres, témoignages, croquis, retranscriptions de séances spirites… Autant d’archives aujourd’hui exhumées et minutieusement analysées par Jonathan Giné. Cette plongée dans une enquête oubliée révèle non seulement un épisode marquant de l’histoire du paranormal en France, mais aussi la rigueur d’un scientifique ouvert à l’invisible, attentif aux faits comme aux états de conscience. Ce livre présente par ailleurs une étude complète de l’ensemble des recherches menées par Flammarion sur les apparitions, les phénomènes post-mortem et les manifestations de type spirite, ainsi que de ses prises de position dans le débat scientifique sur la survie de l’âme et la nature de la conscience. Nous avons, avec ce livre, une pièce rare au croisement de l’histoire, de la science, de la psychologie et du spiritisme.

From the back cover: From the candlelit séances of 1848 to AI-powered consciousness research, America has waged a 150-year campaign to prove the afterlife exists-armed with every tool from telegraph wires to quantum sensors. Dr. Dietrich-Kolokouris traces how ordinary citizens, ambitious inventors, and skeptical scientists turned the paranormal into a laboratory. Spirit photography, electronic voice phenomena, psychedelic studies, and neural mapping converge on a single question: does consciousness survive death?

From the publisher's website: Nightstalker. It was meant to be a refuge for him and his four-year-old daughter after a painful divorce. But unravelling the chilling secrets of the past threatens to suffocate the present. Instinctively sceptical, Matt sets out on a scientific quest to make sense of the paranormal and find peace at home. In his quest, he speaks to the Church of England’s Deliverance Ministry for advice on ‘place memories’, scientists on the theory of ‘emotional residue’, property lawyers about how they sell ‘cursed’ properties (and whether he can get his money back) and psychologists about the human brain’s ineptitude in processing the ocean of electromagnetic radiation that surrounds us – finding that the truth is much more complicated and conflicting than he’d anticipated.

Further information at the publisher's website: Elliott & Thompson.

Review by Peter A. McCue.