Magick Matters

“A Balanced Life: Align your chakras and find your best self through yoga and meditation” by Kimberly Parsons

"A daily handbook to awaken your body and soul and achieve emotional clarity, energy and enhanced wellbeing. Each of our seven chakras is associated with elements such as foods, balancing activities, essential oils, healing crystals, affirmations, personas, colours, mandala symbols, senses, seasons, parts of the body and yoga poses – to name just a few. Therefore aligning your chakras is a delicate balancing act. Guiding you down the path to better energy and harmony is Kimberly Parsons. Her clarity, gentle advice and encouragement will teach you to apply the simplest principles – called 'balance superpowers' – to your daily life and gradually understand the role of chakras. In this beautifully illustrated book, there are...>>

“A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft” by S.T. Joshi

"He was the premier writer of horror fiction of the first half of the twentieth century, perhaps the major American practitioner of this literary art between the time of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. Born into an upper middle class family in Providence, Rhode Island, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) had a lonely childhood, but read voraciously from his earliest years. He soon became interested in science and astronomy, and began penning stories, poetry, and essays in great profusion, publishing them himself when no other market was available. The advent of Weird Tales in 1923 gave him a small outlet for his work, and he attracted a large number of followers, with whom he...>>

“Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer’s (& Editor’s) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, & Myths” by Susanne Alleyn (second edition)

"This is not a book on how to write historical fiction. It is a book on how not to write historical fiction. If you love history and you’re hard at work writing your first historical novel, but you’re wondering if your medieval Irishmen would live on potatoes, if your 17th-century pirate would use a revolver, or if your hero would be able to offer Marie-Antoinette a box of chocolate bonbons . . . (The answer to all these is “Absolutely not!”) . . . then Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders is the book for you. Medieval Underpants will guide you through the factual mistakes that writers of historical fiction—both beginners and seasoned professionals—often make, and show you how...>>

“The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945” by Emma Liggins (Palgrave Gothic)

"This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women’s non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior...>>

“The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena” by Paul Terry

"A fully authorized, richly illustrated inside look into 50 of Mulder and Scully’s most memorable monster cases. When an X-Files fan opens up The X-Files: The Official Archives, they are gaining access—for the first time—to Agents Mulder and Scully’s notes, records, and visual evidence from actual X-File reports. Designed to mimic a collection of FBI case files and packed with such items as autopsy reports, mug shots, lab results, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, pages ripped from antique books on the occult, and security camera printouts, this fully authorized book is the only one of its kind. Detailing the agents’ investigations into 50 cases of cryptids, biological anomalies, and parapsychic phenomena—from the Flukeman to The...>>