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"Johnny Cash" by Gidget Gein 4"x6" framed watercolor on paper $200.00 DM to purchase

Old World Magick for the Modern World, by Patti Negri. 2019 softcover. 110 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED. $15.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to Balance, Empower, and Create a Life You Love. Sharing her specialty of adjusting energy and flow, in people, spaces and situations Patti shows you how to work with natures elements and create simple 30 second solutions which can be done anywhere. Using her magical, loving and upbeat working style Patti shares elemental “old world” techniques showing you how to create spells and rituals which arrange natural elements to the rhythms and cycles of the universe to bring about healing, balance and change our lives for the better. The "Good Witch of Hollywood," Patti Negri, is a Psychic-Medium, and Good Witch best known for her recurring role on the Discovery Channel's top-rated series "Ghost Adventures." She has graced numerous magazine covers, contributed to over 20 books, and conducted seances on radio, film, and TV, working with such legends as Emma Stone, Josh Duhamel, Martin Sheen, and Gregory Hines.

Legends of Urban Horror: A Friend of a Friend Told Me, edited by Gloria Bobrowicz. 2012 softcover. 250 pages, very nice condition (small stain on first page). Out of Print. $20.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. We’ve all come across them. The warnings told by a friend of a friend - don’t go in there, I wouldn’t if I were you, did you hear about…? Or perhaps your mind leaps to the cryptozoological realm - creatures barely glimpsed, and yet to be identified. Other spheres of existence - they can’t be real… certainly not until you’ve experienced one! Maybe the real horror lies in the minds and hearts of others just like you. People with a slightly bent perspective that feed on the fear in others. Twisted souls that would take advantage of the weak, or vulnerable. Those who believe they are doing good for a higher power, or to gain power simply for themselves. Petty vengeance that breathes a life of its own once unleashed. Whatever your poison, the ten stories in Legends of Urban Horror: A Friend of a Friend Told Me are sure to intrigue, and perhaps bring back fears long forgotten. Run, don’t look back… or should you? Contributing Authors include Morgan Bauman, Kimberly A, Bettes, Matthew Borgard, Alex Chase, Austin Fikac, K. Trap Jones, Sean Keller, Lisamarie Lamb, Jon Olson, and C.M. Saunders.

The Littlest Ghosts, by Susan Crites. 1995 first printing stapled softcover. 39 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED limited edition #410 of 1000. $10.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. Confirmed sightings of children – The Littlest Ghosts. Read the first-hand accounts of the ghosts of children who touched the hearts of the people who encountered them. These are remarkable, true reports of the ghosts who reach out through time as told to the author.

Ghosts (Great Mysteries), by Robert Jackson. 1992 hardcover. 80 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED by The Amazing Kreskin. SOLD This book comes from the personal occult library of The Amazing Kreskin. Kreskin has signed the book on the inside. And there is a gift inscription from his friend, Phil Wein, dated 10/21/92. Amazing accounts of ghost phenomena from around the world. Ghostly tales from throughout history up to the present day examined in detail. Fully llustrated throughout with a wide range of intriguing material. The Amazing Kreskin (1935 –2024), was a legendary mentalist who became popular on television in the 1970s. He always presented himself as a mentalist, never as a psychic, who operated on the basis of suggestion, not the paranormal or supernatural. His books, record, and board games centered around ESP were must-haves. From 1972 to 1975, Kreskin's television series The Amazing World of Kreskin was broadcast throughout Canada and the United States, it then ran from 1975 to 1978 as The New Kreskin Show. His first television appearance was on The Steve Allen Show in 1964. He went on to appear approximately 100 times on each of The Mike Douglas Show and The Merv Griffin Show, and 88 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Kreskin's popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s, though he continued to perform into the 2020s. He was a pop culture phenomenon.

“John Hardy” is a traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker in West Virginia. The historical John Hardy killed a man during a craps game, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and was hanged on January 19, 1894. The song has been performed by numerous artists from the 1920s through the present, including Joan Baez, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Billy Childish, Roy Clark, Bob Dylan, Bill Frisell, The Gun Club, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Burl Ives, The Kingston Trio, Lead Belly, Bill Monroe, Jerry Reed, Earl Scruggs, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Silver Apples, George Thorogood, and Uncle Tupelo. The earliest known recordings are credited to Eva Davis for Columbia in 1924, Ernest Stoneman for Okeh in 1925 and Buell Kazee for Brunswick in 1927. As with many other traditional folk songs, lyrics change from version to version. On October 13, 1893, the Wheeling Daily Register published the following article: “At 8 o’clock this morning the jury in the case of the State against John Hardy, colored, for the murder of Thomas Drews, colored, at Eckman, this county, in January last, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The trouble arose over a game of craps and was a cold blooded crime. Motion has been made for a new trial with but small hopes of success on account of the Criminal Court Judge’s indisposition. A recess has been taken until Monday.” In the 1890s, the booming market for coal was bringing thousands of people to West Virginia. Hardy and Drews were part of the labor pool that helped gouge the black gold from the ground for the Shawnee Coal Company. After work, many of the miners would gamble away all that they’d earned during the day. It is said that John Hardy lost twenty-five cents to Drews before shooting him. One report says a woman was involved, and the song states that Hardy had two girlfriends as well as a wife. #destroytheday (To see this story all in one post, in a better format, with more content...visit our Patreon. The daily story is always free there - link in bio)

Joe Ball part 2 Soon, two more women were reported missing. One of the missing women had opened a bank account a few days earlier, and disappeared without taking the money with her. Texas Rangers compiled a list of all of Ball’s employees. Many were found alive, and more than twelve were reported missing, including two of Joe’s wives. Ball’s handyman, Clifford Wheeler (William Sneed in some reports), eventually cracked under pressure and admitted to helping Ball dispose of around 20 female bodies by feeding them to the alligators. Wheeler also led them to the remains of Hazel Brown and Minnie Gotthard. On September 24, 1938, there was enough evidence to convict Ball, and two Bexar County sheriff’s deputies stopped into the Sociable Inn. Ball, stepped behind the counter, rang up a “No Sale” on the register, removed a pistol from the drawer, and shot himself through the heart (some sources report that he shot himself in the head). His handyman was jailed for two years for being an accessory, and the alligators were donated to the San Antonio zoo. Supposedly, Ball’s third wife eventually surfaced years later. It seems that she knew about her predecessors’ fate and decided that she didn’t want to go the same way. She told police that she knew about “4 or so” murders. Strangely, there has never been any concrete evidence that the alligators actually ate any of his victims. There were few written sources from the era which could verify the totality of Ball’s crimes. Newspaper editor Michael Hall investigated the story in depth in 2002, and wrote on his findings for Texas Monthly. The 1977 film Eaten Alive, directed by Tobe Hooper and featuring Robert Englund, was inspired by Joe Ball. #destroytheday (To see this story all in one post, in a better format, with more content...visit our Patreon. The daily story is always free there - link in bio)

Joseph D. (Joe) Ball (1896 - 1938) was an American serial killer, sometimes referred to as “The Alligator Man,” the “Butcher of Elmendorf,” and the “Bluebeard of South Texas.” He is known to have killed two and is said to have killed as many as 20 women in the 1930s. Ball served on the front lines in Europe during World War I. Back in America, he started his career as a bootlegger, providing illegal liquor to those who could pay. After the end of Prohibition, he opened a saloon called the Sociable Inn in Elmendorf, Texas. There, he built a pond that contained six alligators. He charged people to view them, especially during feeding time; the food consisted mostly of live cats and dogs. Joe was very protective of these animals as well. Once, when a neighbor complained about the stench of rotten meat, Joe pulled out a gun and threateningly explained that it must have been the gator food and that the neighbor should mind his own business in future. Another neighbor was so threatened by Joe that he moved to another city. The main reason for the pond and alligators, however, was because Joe misunderstood the term corpus delicti. He believed that he could not be caught and convicted of murder if there were no actual bodies for the police to find. After a while, women in the area started disappearing. In September 1937 relatives reported Minnie Gotthardt missing. The 22 year old woman had been a waitress at Ball’s tavern. Ball claimed she left to go to another job. Then another waitress, Julia Turner, was reported missing. Still, Ball claimed she too had left for another job. The only thing was, Turner hadn’t taken her clothes with her. Balls’ story: Turner got into an argument with her roommate, she was anxious to leave, and he gave her $500.00 for the trip. #destroytheday (To see this story all in one post, in a better format, with more content...visit our Patreon. The daily story is always free there - link in bio)

Man, Myth & Magic – An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (24 Volume Set). 1970 hardcover. 3376 pages total, nice condition. $225.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. Man, Myth & Magic is the legendary, comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural, edited by Richard Cavendish and first published in 1970 as a weekly magazine that was later compiled into a 24-volume hardcover set. The set contains all of the information from the 112 issues, spanning 1,000 articles with over 5,000 illustrations, many of them in full color. It covers a vast range of topics, including mythology, folklore, occultism, religion, and the paranormal, featuring thousands of articles and illustrations. More than two hundred academics and specialists contributed to the magazine, including: Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and editor of Antiquity. E. R. Dodds, former Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Mircea Eliade, professor of the History of Religion at University of Chicago. William Sargant, past Physician in Charge of the Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital. John Symonds, author and literary executor of Aleister Crowley. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, professor of Comparative Religion, Dean of Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Robert Charles Zaehner, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics, Oxford. Cottie Arthur Burland, formerly of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

The Crow – Volume Three: Death. 1992 softcover. 64 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED by James O’Barr. $60.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. A beautiful graphic novel from Tundra Publications put out two years before the glorious Brandon Lee film. This installment follows the supernatural vigilante known as the Crow—resurrected musician Eric Draven—as he delivers vengeance upon the remaining members of the gang responsible for his and his fiancée Shelly's murder, including Funboy and gang leader T-Bird, before confronting the deeper emotional requirement of self-forgiveness to achieve peace and release from his undead state. The Tundra Press volumes, including Volume Three: Death, represent the complete and polished realization of O'Barr's vision after Caliber Press published only the initial segments and could not release the intended final chapter due to financial issues. As such, this work contains previously unpublished material from the original Crow storyline, at the time.

The Crow – Volume Two: Irony & Despair. 1992 softcover. 64 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED by James O’Barr. $60.00 To purchase, click the Big Cartel link in our bio...available for shipping or instore pickup. A beautiful graphic novel from Tundra Publications put out two years before the glorious Brandon Lee film. In the first half, the Crow battles Funboy's hoods at the Gin Mill. He also remissness of his murdered love Shelly Webster. Despair is the tale of the death of Shelly Webster and Eric Draven. This is a flashback/Origin Story to the events before Eric Draven becomes the Crow. The Tundra Press volumes, including Volume 2: Irony & Despair, represent the complete and polished realization of O'Barr's vision after Caliber Press published only the initial segments and could not release the intended final chapter due to financial issues. This book contains stories from the original Caliber releases, The Crow #3 and #4.