October 2020 Issue Mathew Lyons Breaking the Spell The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present By Chris Gosden LR
October 2020 Issue Lucy Lethbridge The Woolworths Poltergeist The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England By Kate Summerscale
March 2001 Issue Roy Porter An Enchanted World The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe By Stephen Wilson LR
November 2018 Issue Kevin Jackson Something to Sink Your Teeth Into The Vampire: A New History By Nick Groom LR
April 2005 Issue Selina O’Grady A Familiar World Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy By Malcolm Gaskill LR
November 2012 Issue Peter Marshall Occult Following The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee By Glyn Parry LR
December 2012 Issue Kevin Jackson Revenge of the Pharaonic Cobra The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy By Roger Luckhurst LR
December 2012 Issue John Harwood Favourite Haunts A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof By Roger Clarke LR
May 2013 Issue John Harwood Grave Matters The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead By Carl Watkins LR
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