Anomalist Books: 68 books

We chose Hakim Bey's wonderful phrase The Universe Wants to Play as the unifying theme for the articles in this volume, the 12th of The Anomalist journal. Since we began publishing in 1994, this highly praised nonfiction anthology has had as its focus maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, and strange talents.

With this issue, The Anomalist 14 seeks to provide sudden jolts of illumination to spark the imagination: instant CPR for the head. "This latest Anomalist anthology offers a wide range of short(ish) articles to stimulate the fortean imagination...The most contentious contribution is a piece by Aeolus...

Fortean mysteries examined by Victoria Alexander, Loren Coleman,  Sharon Hill, David Hricenak, Mark Macy, Ulrich Magin, Gary Mangiacopra,Theo Paijmans, Nick Redfern, John Reppion, Dwight Smith, and Cliff Willett

In this second volume of personal reflections by Men and Women of Parapsychology, Rosemarie Pilkington has asked some brilliant, talented people who have spent most of their lives exploring the mysteries of consciousness why they entered the realm of parapsychology, why they persisted in investigating...

Folklore has always warned of hidden dangers lurking in the shadows, otherworldly beings who seek to steal that which parents hold most dear. In the first book dedicated solely to the subject, Joshua Cutchin traces this primal concern from antiquity to the modern era—beginning with worldwide tales...

OUR SKIES ARE FILLED WITH TROJAN HORSES... “The real UFO story must encompass all of the many manifestations being observed. It is a story of ghosts and phantoms and strange mental aberrations; of an invisible world that surrounds us and occasionally engulfs us; of prophets and prophecies,...

The Disturbing Follow-Up To The Mothman Prophecies <p> Is there a single intelligent force behind all religious, occult, and UFO phenomena? </p><p> Strange manifestations have haunted humans since prehistoric times. Beams of light, voices from the heavens, the “little people,”...

September 1961: Near Indian Head, New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill have a disturbing encounter with a UFO while driving home from a short vacation. Later, under hypnosis, the couple recall having been abducted by aliens. October 1966: John Fullers book, The Interrupted Journey, based on the Hills...

THIS PIONEERING CLASSIC WORK in the field of cryptozoology covers not only the Loch Ness monster, but lake monsters from all over the world-from the Ogopogo of Canada and the "Patagonian Plesiosaur" of Argentina, to Idaho's "Slimey Slim"' and Sweden's "Storsjo," along...

An intimate account, in three interlocked themes, of one mans remarkably complex life. ART: Budd Hopkins is a nationally known Abstract Expressionist painter, with works in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Metropolitan Museums, as well as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and New York's Museum...

REMEMBERING IS THE DUTY OF THOSE WHO LIVE IN EXCEPTIONAL TIMES. The 1980s were a pivotal time in the development of venture capital that led to great innovations throughout the world. As recounted in this third volume of journals, Jacques Vallee found his passion in this world, while he witnessed...

“A little over four decades ago… a monumental literary classic entitled Mysteries of Time and Space was first published. Its author, the prolific, legendary, not to mention one of the most tireless, pioneering investigative journalists in the ‘truth is out there’ field of all things unexplained,...

NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME… THE TRUE STORY OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN! The story begins at the end of 1968 in New Jersey, when zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson first hear from a correspondent about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being...

THESE THINGS REALLY HAPPENED AND SHAPED THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE. With the end game in Vietnam and the turpitudes of Watergate in the background, the major topic of this second volume in the journals of Jacques Vallee is paranormal research. Vallee relates his behind-the-scenes experiences in California...