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DRAWING DOWN THE MOON: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, Other Pagans in America Today.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, short edgetear). Uncommon in the first edition.
Book ID: 86484More details Price: $150.00 -
SAVANNAH'S GHOSTS II.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback.
Savannah, Georgia: Whittaker St Books, 2003. SIGNED first edition - Stories of ghosts and unexplained mysterious happenings in Savannah, Georgia, each researched by the author. Illustrated with color photographs. SIGNED on the first page. 99 pp. ISBN: 0-970553730.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 50251More details Price: $12.00 -
FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL.
Edition: First printing.
Lee's Summit, MO: Delphi Books,
(2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand alone "mystery-driven black comedy inspired by strange events that plagued the filming of "The Exorcist" (where the author's sister was a double for Linda Blair) Frannie Rosen's psychic mentions a brilliant future, but she never tells the straight-laced and naive Frannie that she will be possessed by a promiscuous doppelganger. All Frannie wants is an Oscar-winning role. What she gets is far more than that, especially when she's cast in a horror film about demonic possession" SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-966339754.Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75397More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WATCHERS: The Secret Design Behind UFO Abduction
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 91041More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LIST OF 7.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this author - the writer and director of the movie "Storyville," co-creator of the offbeat television show "Twin Peak" - a thriller set in the shadowy underworld of late Victorian Britain (and the world of Sherlock Holmes).On Christmas Day 1884 a struggling young physcian, aspiring novelist and part-time demystifier of the occult named Arthur Conan Doyle receives a desperate plea for help from a mysterious woman. SIGNED on the title page. 366 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy black wrappers with simply a large red '7' on the front cover. Epilogue is still sealed. Erratum slip laid in.
Book ID: 50250More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LIST OF 7.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author, writer and director of the movie "Storyville," co-creator of the offbeat television show "Twin Peaks." A thriller set in the shadowy underworld of late Victorian Britain (and the world of Sherlock Holmes). On Christmas Day 1884 a struggling young physcian, aspiring novelist and part-time demystifier of the occult named Arthur Conan Doyle receives a desperate plea for help from a mysterious woman. Map endpapers. Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-688122450.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 73381More details Price: $18.00 -
FATE MAGAZINE, February 2008: True Reports of the Strange and Unknown, Volume 61, No. 2, issue 694.
Edition: Digest magazine.
Lakeville, MN: Fate Magazine 2008. First edition - Cover states "Celebrating 60 years" - the longest running periodical in its field, according to editorial comments. Includes articles on George Washington, on the Nazis and the Crystal Skull and more. Includes a section on "true mystic experiences" - personal accounts from their readers. Illustrated with color photographs and drawings. Advertisements. 128 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional copy with free issue sticker on front cover.
Book ID: 66897More details Price: $10.00 -
LA-BAS (DOWN THERE)
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Dover Publications, (c 1972). A classic novel of Satanism, originally published in France in 1891 and noted for its detailed and vivid description of the Black Mass, one which Huysmans himself attended. Although the novel centers on Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of Gilles de Rais, a fifteenth-century child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts, Huysmans had firsthand knowledge of the satanic practices, witch cults, and the whole of the occult underworld which was thriving in late nineteenth-century Paris and in the city of Lyons. Translated by Keene Wallis. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-486228371.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name, highlighting to 4 lines on p 7 only.
Book ID: 85461More details Price: $13.50 -
ARTHUR MACHEN: SELECTED LETTERS: The Private Writings of the Master of the Macabre.
Edition: First printing.
Wellingborough, UK: The Aquarius Press, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Includes "letters to his friends A.E.Waite, Colin Summerford, and John Gawsworth, and to fellow authors and publishers, [which] illuminate Machen's courageous struggles against poverty and adversity, while reflecting his lifelong preoccupations with literature, the occult, the Christian faith, and Celtic myth." Foreword by Hillary Machen. Chronology. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and other photographs. Select bibliography. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-850307821.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87199More details Price: $25.00 -
SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDY.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Alleyn, Trey and their young son Ricky go to the coast of southern France in a trip that is meant to combine work - Alleyn is working undercover with the French Surete - and pleasure with a planned visit to a distant cousin of Trey's (one of the spinsters in jeopardy) only to find themselves caught up in Satanism, the occult and drug dealing. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-00231889.
Condition: Near fine in grey boards with red lettering in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 86079More details Price: $35.00 -
SERVANT OF THE BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel designed to 'carry us into new realms of the occult--the mystical and the magical, and into the presence - now and through the centuries - of a dark and luminous new hero; the powerful. witty, smiling Azriel, the Servant of the Bones.' 387 pp. ISBN: 0-679433015.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 44448More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LIBRARY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1925, in the post-war world of New York City and southern France. "On a snowy night in February, in a penthouse high above Fifth Avenue, Delphines mystical talent leads to a tragedy between two brothers. Devastated and disconsolate, Delphine renounces her gift and returns to her old life in the south of France where Picasso, Matisse, and the Fitzgeralds are summering." Author's note. 356 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1476778129.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75351More details Price: $20.00 -
A PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY: The Story of the Young Edgar Cayce.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Cayce as a boy in a small Kentucky town in the early 1900's, already aware of his remarkable gifts. Illustrated with photographs. 301 pages. ISBN: 0-688-002587.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 21242More details Price: $15.00 -
LIGHTBREAKER: The First Book of the Codex of Souls.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
San Francisco: Night Shade Books. (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, an "explosive, action-packed occult thriller" set in Seattle, SIGNED on the title page. (don't miss the picture of the author, a self-described bibliomaniac, in a bunny suit in front of his packed bookcases). 341 pp. ISBN: 1597801380.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45465More details Price: $12.00 -
ATLAS OF SECRET EUROPE: A Guide to Sites of Magic and Mystery
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dorset Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book which "shows the reader how to see Europe with new eyes, as he learns the hidden secrets that lie behind even its best-known sights." Among the topics are heretics and knights, demons and witches, heavenly and earthly lines, magic symbols and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs taken by the author, or from his collection, most in full color. Folio. Bibliography, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-880295244.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (light creasing to top edge).
Book ID: 92742More details Price: $30.00 -
SECRETS OF A TELEPHONE PSYCHIC.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - Memoir of a man who was the voice on the other end of the line when you called a telephone psychic hotline. A funny book -but also one which makes some serious points about our American culture. Bibliographical and other references. 149 pp. ISBN: 1-885223-897.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the first page - 'Venus, Queen of the Cosmos - thank you for all your faith and love throughout this project - I love you - Frederick. Very near fine.
Book ID: 29097More details Price: $18.00



