Supernatural

Unfinished business : what the dead can teach us about life by James Van Praagh

By James Van Praagh

Stocks tales of remorse, regret, and recommendation as obtained from spirits throughout the author's occupation as a medium, in a advisor that counsels readers on being type to others, letting cross of emotional luggage, and self-forgiveness.

summary: stocks tales of remorse, regret, and recommendation as obtained from spirits through the author's profession as a medium, in a consultant that counsels readers on being type to others, letting cross of emotional luggage, and self-forgiveness

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13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey by Kathryn Tucker Windham

By Kathryn Tucker Windham

Jeffrey is the mischievous “something” that has headquarters within the Windham domestic in Selma. He first made his presence identified in October 1966, and because then he has persevered, at abnormal and rare periods, to clump down the corridor, slam doorways, rock in a chair, frighten the relatives cat (now deceased—through no fault of Jeffrey), flow heavy items of furnishings, reason digital apparatus to malfunction, and conceal gadgets. He often accompanies Mrs. Windham on her travels, and stories of Jeffrey’s antics are greatly acknowledged. “Nobody has ever been frightened of Jeffrey,” Mrs. Windham says. “He is particularly handy to have—we blame every thing that is going awry on him. His purely objective for latest (if that notice is right) is to prod me into accumulating and maintaining ‘true’ ghost tales from in the course of the South.”  

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Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko Novels) by Martin Cruz Smith

By Martin Cruz Smith

Chernobyl: the sector of Exclusion. A ghostly position, abandoned and forgotten for nearly 20 years; now inhabited via military, shady scavengers, a number of reckless scientists, and a few aged Ukrainian peasants ...This is the eerie and unsafe global Inspector Arkady Renko needs to navigate if he's to determine the reality in the back of the demise of 1 of Russia's richest oligarchs. Pasha Ivanov has been stumbled on lifeless at the pavement outdoor his luxurious high-rise residence in Moscow. it sort of feels like an easy suicide, yet Renko, by no means one to take facts at face worth, refuses to drop the case, and there's anything perplexing him: a mountain of salt present in Ivanov's cloth wardrobe ...Determined to appear deeper into the situations of Ivanov's death, he acquaints himself with this prosperous businessman's robust and corrupt circle, until eventually his investigations lead him to Chernobyl's infamous area of Exclusion, the place the physique of Lev Timofeyev, Ivanov's former learn associate, has been stumbled on in a infected cemetery ...Masterfully crafted and informed with striking perception and creative breadth, the bestselling writer of "Gorky Park" brings us Renko's such a lot beguiling and strange experience thus far.

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Clanbook: Salubri (Vampire: The Dark Ages) by Cynthia Summers

By Cynthia Summers

The secrets and techniques of the reclusive Salubri are printed. What secrets and techniques do they bring that let them even the desire of survival? and why do the opposite clans draw back from their plight? Clanbook: Salubri contains: new Valeren powers, benefits and Flaws and extra; the historical past of the Baali Wars; the secrets and techniques saved hidden by means of Saulot himself!

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What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie

By Victoria Laurie

M.J., her companion Gilley, and their buyer, the rich, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's inn, the place his grandfather allegedly jumped to his demise from the roof-although Sable says it was once foul play. however the patriarch's is not the basically ghost round. where is awful with souls, all with whatever to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. must to quell the clamor-and pay attention for a voice with the answers...

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The Other by Thomas Tryon

By Thomas Tryon

Unique book: 1971
Afterword written: 2012

Holland and Niles Perry are exact thirteen-year-old twins. they're shut, shut adequate, virtually, to learn each one other’s recommendations, yet they couldn’t be extra diversified. Holland is daring and mischievous, a foul impression, whereas Niles is type and desirous to please, this type of boy who makes mom and dad proud. The Perrys reside within the bucolic New England city their kin settled centuries in the past, and because it occurs, the prolonged extended family has collected at its ancestral farm this summer time to mourn the dying of the twins’ father in a so much unlucky twist of fate. Mrs. Perry nonetheless hasn’t recovered from the surprise of her husband’s grotesque finish and remains sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam loose. because the summer season is going on, even though, and Holland’s pranks turn into more and more sinister, Niles reveals he can now not make excuses for his brother’s activities.

Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel a few homegrown monster is an eerie exam of the darkness that dwells inside all people. it's a landmark of mental horror that may be a helpful descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.

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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable by Bruce M. Hood

By Bruce M. Hood

Nearly all of the world's inhabitants is non secular or believes in supernatural phenomena. within the usa, 9 out of each ten adults think in God, and a up to date Gallup ballot came across that approximately 3 out of 4 americans think in a few type of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or earlier lives. the place does such supernatural considering come from? Are we indoctrinated by way of our mom and dad, church buildings, and media, or do such ideals originate in other places? In SuperSense, award-winning cognitive scientist Bruce M. Hood finds the technology at the back of our ideals within the supernatural.

Superstitions are universal. many folks move our palms, knock on wooden, step round black cats, and stay away from strolling below ladders. John McEnroe refused to step at the white strains of a tennis courtroom among issues. Wade Boggs insisted on consuming a poultry dinner prior to each Boston purple Sox video game. President Barack Obama performed a video game of basketball the morning of his victory within the Iowa fundamental and persevered the culture on each next election day.

Supernatural pondering comprises loftier ideals besides, comparable to the sentimental worth we position on pictures of household, marriage ceremony earrings, and teddy bears. additionally it is non secular ideals and the wish for an afterlife. yet during this sleek, clinical age, why can we carry directly to those behaviors and ideology?

It seems that trust in issues past what's rational or normal is usual to people and looks very early in youth. actually, based on Hood, this "super sense" is whatever we're born with to advance and is key to the best way we learn how to comprehend the realm. We couldn't stay with out it!

Our minds are designed from the very begin to imagine there are unseen styles, forces, and essences inhabiting the area, and it really is not likely that any attempt to dispose of supernatural ideals, or the superstitious behaviors that accompany them, may be profitable. those universal ideals and sacred values are crucial in binding us jointly as a society simply because they assist us to work out ourselves attached to one another at a deeper point.

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Angelique's Descent (Dark Shadows, Book 1) by Lara Parker

By Lara Parker

Dark Shadows’s preferred characters, Barnabas Collins and Angelique, have been endlessly certain by means of love and hate. Now actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, tells the tale of the way all of it started.  The rushing inheritor of a brand new England transport wealthy person, Barnabas Collins captures the center of the beautiful, younger Angelique amidst the sensual great thing about Martinique, her island domestic. yet Angelique’s short happiness is doomed while Barnabas deserts her and turns into engaged to a different. With this one betrayal, Barnabas unleashes an evil that would torment him all the time.  For Angelique is not any traditional girl. Raised within the mysterious black artwork of voodoo witchcraft, she some time past pledged her soul to darkness and have become immortal. Vowing to spoil Barnabas, a vengeful Angelique damns him to everlasting lifestyles as a vampire—a spouse to accompany her perpetually. Little does Angelique comprehend the intensity of Barnabas’s fury....

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