The essays in this collection concern various paranormal-occult phenomena, entities, and methods; many of them are given with real-life personal examples. The book is a quarry of highly unusual, unfamiliar, and uncanny material; the reader will encounter ectoplasm, psychic vampires, shadow people, hungry ghosts, ghost-repelling trees, ultraterrestrials, and more; there are theoretical essays on the Tarot, Ouija, quantum ghost-hunting, and more. In the final chapter is a collection of true stories, though the entirety is peppered with more strange, mysterious accounts of the author's personal...