Long out of print, this classic survey of magic and the occult clearly explains centuries of mystical rituals and practices part of the new Tarcher Supernatural Library.
This guide distills generations of magical practice, witchcraft, and other occult interests across cultures and centuries into a single, enchanting volume.
Written for laymen and practitioners alike, The Romance of Sorcery simply and readably outlines the history of magic from ancient Egypt to John Dee to Madame Blavatsky showing how both Wiccan practice and witches in popular culture came to be.
The first three...

Fifty years before "The Conjuring, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, Insidious "and "Most Haunted," there was Hans Holzer a man known as the Father of the Paranormal. Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and ghost hunting into popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
Ghost Hunter presented some of the first-ever case studies of haunting investigations, taken from Holzer s own practice in the New York City area ranging from Civil War-era spirits to the tormented ghosts of murder victims.
For devoted ghost-hunting aficionados...