Andrew Cox spent 20 years scavenging through Bookmans, yard sales and thrift stores in search of occult books. His collection grew into the thousands; so many books, so little space at his home that ...

William Kiesel grew up in an era of great used bookstores. Shorey’s, the rambling old downtown Seattle book store. David Ishii and Bowie & Company in Pioneer Square. Stores with stacks of used books ...

Cauldrons filled with mysterious potions, disappearing animals, and crotchety old women sporting comically sharp, black hats — that's how witchcraft is usually represented, commercially at least.

When Elyse Bernath was 4 years old, she almost died. Her near-death experience was the result of a severe case of the flu, she said. But after Bernath recovered, she said things felt different. By the ...

One of the world’s biggest collections of occult texts is going online, meaning anyone will be able to access and read hundreds of obscure and fascinating books for free. The Dutch Ritman Library is ...

Are you more interested in learning about the ancient magical traditions of Hermeticism than you are the latest New York Times bestseller? Than you are in luck, because thanks to the Dutch Ritman ...

An Old Testament name from the Hebrew word for ”adversary,” Satan, a.k.a. the Prince of Darkness and Beelzebub, is regarded in the Judeo-Christian tradition as the embodiment of absolute evil, the ...

As I stood outside Watkins Books, the oldest occult bookshop in London, an old man approached me. “Number 23 is the one you want,” he said, pointing down the street. I looked confused. “Murder! A ...