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Friday the 13th

You'll want to stay at home tomorrow after you read this (maybe): http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/4... by yours truly (of course).

More Evil and Wickedness for 2014

[CFP] 15th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness



Saturday 22nd March – Monday 24th March 2014
Prague, Czech Republic


Call for Presentations

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to
examine and explore issues surrounding evil and human wickedness. In
wrestling with evil(s) we are confronted with a multi-layered phenomenon
which invites

Britain's Spookiest Places

Just had my first article published in the Daily Express:

THE UK is blessed - or cursed - with the greatest number of haunted
places imaginable. From the crumbling battlements of ruined castles and
grand royal palaces to cosy country pubs and individual houses, ghosts
have been sighted, heard, felt and sometimes smelt the length and
breadth of the land.

Read the full story here:
http://

Dave Evans

Just received this in the email this morning from Mandrake. Very sad news.Dear All In case you've not already heard, the founder(?) of this list [Society for the Academic Study of Magic] and the one time journal JSM just died after a long journey with illness, here's a post from Al Cummings: "Today I found out that a good friend of mine - the teacher, writer, and magician, Dave Evans - has

Call for ChaptersFollowing on my work on witchcraft a...

Call for Chapters

Following on my work on witchcraft accusations against children, I've
teamed up with Simon Bacon to work on an anthology exploring the many
issues surrounding children/childhood and conceptualisations of
monstrosity and evil. We're particularly keen to open up a wide-ranging
debate from cinema to the criminal courts. If you've got an idea, send
it in!


Book Project.

Universal Vampire Book Project

Here's a description of the project from the editors:


The Universal Vampire Series, 2 Vols. 



Vol. 1 – The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend 



Vol. 2 – The Hip and the Atavistic: Images of the Modern Vampire



Editors 

Barbara Brodman, Nova Southeastern University 

James E. Doan, Nova Southeastern University



Project Overview 

For almost 200 years, since the

Universal Vampire Update

Just heard from the editors that the forthcoming multi-volume blockbuster The Universal Vampire is scheduled for publication in April 2012. The publishers were 'very impressed with the quality of the essays in the collection'. A brief description of my chapter can be found here http://www.academia.edu/1536481/Evide...

CFP: Esotericism and Health

Call for Papers ESSWE 4: Western Esotericism and Health



Datum: June 26, 2013 -to- June 29, 2013





Call for Papers: ESSWE4 - The Fourth International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism

Western Esotericism and Health

26-29 June 2013, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Issues relating to health (understood in a broad sense) can be seen as
an

Spiritualism Anthology Details Released

Just arrived in my inbox are the full(er) details of the forthcoming anthology on spiritualism:

the anthology is to be published as:

Christopher M. Moreman (Ed.), The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with
the Dead in American and around the World (ABC-CLIO, 2013). It is
scheduled for release in the summer.

Sub-titles (and authors for each) are:
Vol. 1: American Origins and Global Proliferation

Magonia Review of The Supernatural

 Magonia Review of Books, review of Leo Ruickbie, A Brief Guide to the Supernatural: Ghosts, Vampires and the Paranormal (Constable and Robinson, 2012), dated 29 March 2012:


The book is well referenced in the form of footnotes and makes a good general introduction.



See the full review at http://pelicanist.blogspot.de/2012/04...