When Mark L. Cowden first proposed his book to us, we thought, “Okay, here is another guy who thinks the Electronic Voice Phenomena he’s captured is worth a book.” We were skeptical to say the least. But reading his manuscript turned us around—big time. First of all, Mark is not just an expert audio/visual technician, but a very special person. He is “spiritual” in the true sense of the word. And the phenomenon he’s captured is “extraordinary,” also in the true sense of the word. What he did essentially is capture a “live” conversation between this world and the next. And it was all broadcast on television—in Ireland. It didn’t make newspaper headlines around the world—at least not in this world—though it certainly should have. Spirit Voices: The First Live Conversation Between Worlds is Mark L. Cowden’s very personal, quite amazing story. Says Mark: “This book is for everyday people, not just folks interested in the paranormal. It’s for people like me. I was fortunate enough to be someone who was in the right places, at the right times, with the right frame of mind, to witness and record some things that most people say is not possible. I’m not one of those people who has made it a life mission to experience something and then prove to the world that it is possible. The experience happened first. I find it fascinating, I find it inspiring, and I’m constantly trying to find ways to develop myself, remain a decent person, and continue to have more experiences. I believe that it is too amazing to not write about and, if possible, show people on television, but I would never be daft enough to fall into that trap of trying to prove something in a world governed by scientific laws, which, at present, have no way of explaining what this ‘something’ is, or how it works. I’m an observer and will offer my own personal opinion, which I believe is just as relevant on this topic as anybody else’s, scientific minded or not, but I won’t play games with the scientific community.”

Ulrich Magin is one of the world’s most highly respected fortean researchers. He digs and digs for the truth and lays it all out no matter what the result. Sometimes he exposes a well-established “fact” as groundless, and sometimes the facts leave him genuinely puzzled. For Magin, it’s not a matter of blind belief or simple skepticism; it’s a matter of doubt, the kind of doubt that demolishes weak cases and makes strong cases stronger. His new book is a collection of investigations into out-of-place mysteries of the air, earth, fire, and water, which is why the book is called INVESTIGATING THE IMPOSSIBLE: Sea-Serpents in the Air, Volcanoes that Aren’t, and Other Out-of-Place Mysteries. Topics include: surviving plesiosaurs in lakes; petrified ships on mountaintops; and limestone mountains that suddenly erupt as volcanoes but leave no trace of lava flows. All these are certainly impossible things. Yet they happen, again and again, in all parts of the world. And these events are witnessed by scores of people. Join Magin as he attempts to unravel a host of both popular and little known mysteries.

Anomalist Books is proud to announce the republication of a book originally produced by the Fund for UFO Research in cooperation with the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies: GRASSROOTS UFOs: Case Reports from the Center for UFO Studies by Michael D. Swords. The material for the book was gathered over a period of a dozen years, when John Timmerman ran a traveling UFO exhibit for CUFOS that appeared in malls from Seattle to Dallas to Nova Scotia, and from Guam to Puerto Rico. In the process he spoke to hundreds of people from around the world who came in off the street and described their own UFO sightings and experiences. Timmerman ended up with nearly 1,200 taped interviews, firsthand testimony with the lingering taste of truth. Realizing that these stories present the UFO phenomenon in all its raw glory, Michael Swords decided to summarize and analyze this independent trove of evidence for the reality of the phenomenon, and subsequently wrote and illustrated the present volume, which until now has not been available to the general public. If you’re familiar with the writings of Michael Swords, you know you’re in for a treat. If not, prepare to be amazed.

There are factions inside the U.S. government who believe the alien and UFO presence has demonic origins. That’s the premise of Nick Redfern’s Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife, which looks to be the best-selling Anomalist Book to date. Micah Hanks, of The Gralien Report, says: “Reader be warned: [this] is one book that will beckon from outside the boundaries of sanity, and perhaps well beyond the fringes of what you thought was right and good in this world.” Says Dan Mitchell of the Luminosity blog: “This book was nothing short of illuminating for me…” Christopher Knowles, of the Secret Sun, writes: “Disturbing stuff. If I were a more cynical kind of guy, I might almost think that [the Collins Elite] was all just another psyops group assigned to create pretexts for overthrowing the Republic. But it certainly fits into the overall secret war against the New Age meme as well…I think Final Events is a book all of us need to read.” And finally, Rich Reynolds of The UFO Iconoclast(s), says: “If you’re inclined to dismiss the demonic UFO hypothesis and Mr. Redfern’s book, you’d be missing out on what Mr. Redfern does best, and that’s present peripheral information and material that enlightens those who have limited knowledge about things germane to UFOs and human existence itself…The Collins Elite scenario…is an idea that Mr. Redfern presents thoroughly and objectively, as usual. Get the book… and give yourself a treat, one that will be intellectually stimulating in many, many ways.” And don’t miss author Jospeh Farrell’s video review of the book on his News and Views From the Nefarium; the actual review starts at about 3:20 minute mark.

The following titles are available now (or will be soon) through:
Apple’s iBookstore app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch;
from Amazon for the Kindle;
and through Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
All these ebooks are priced at $9.99 each in the United States (except the three issues of The Anomalist, which are $7.99 each).
Apple and Amazon offer these ebooks in other countries as well.

Dark Intrusions by Louis Proud
There’s Something in the Woods by Nick Redfern
The Sprit of Dr. Bindelof by Rosemarie Pilkington
The President’s Vampire by Robert Schneck
Strange Company by Keith Chester
Extreme Expeditions by Adam Davies
An Alien Who’s Who by Marin Kottmeyer, ed.
Darkness Walks by Jason Offutt
On the Trail of the Saucer Spies by Nick Redfern
Fatima Revisited by F. Fernandes, J. Fernandes, and R. Berenguel, eds.
Encounters at Indian Head by Karl Pflock & Peter Brokesmith, eds
Astrology Off the Beaten Track by Suzel Fuzeau-Braesch
Science Fiction Secrets by Nick Redfern
In Alien Heat by Steve Dewey and John Ries
Art, Life, and UFOs by Budd Hopkins
SLIders by Hilary Evans
The Universe Wants to Play: The Anomalist 12 by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy, eds
Intermediate States: The Anomalist, 13 by Patrick Huyghe and Dennis Stacy, eds
Electricity of the Mind: The Anomalist 14 by Ian Simmons, ed
Swamp Gas Times by Patrick Huyghe
The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies

The following color title is only available through Apple’s iBookstore:
Love in an Alien Purgatory by Farah Yurdozu

We are adding ebook versions of our original print titles on a weekly basis.
This post will be updated as new titles become available.

Finally! After a truly giant wait, this much anticipated book has now been published. True Giants: Is Gigantopithecus Still Alive? by Mark Hall and Loren Coleman breaks a cryptozoological taboo. Could primates 10-20 feet tall—larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis—possibly exist in some remote corners of our world today? We know they did in the past—and we call these creatures Gigantopithecus. The authors, two well-known cryptozoologists, review the evidence for these giant primates that’s found in traditions and footprints, folklore and sightings. Yes, it all amounts to a very challenging notion. But we’re sure you’ll find this to be a truly amazing book. It’s well illustrated, too!

The book that Prof. Robert A. McConnell, the first president of the Parapsychological Association, said was “among the top tier of the enduring classics of science of the Twentieth Century” has been reprinted as ESPRIT: Men and Women of Parapsychology, Personal Reflections, Vol. 1. Edited by Rosemarie Pilkington, Ph.D., the book is a collection of autobiographical essays by a group of esteemed 20th century psi researchers, giving us a glimpse of why these gifted, astute individuals devoted much, if not most, of their life’s work to this fascinating but monetarily unrewarding field. In the process, Jule Eisenbud, Eileen Coly, Gertrude Schmeidler, Karlis Osis, and eight others advise a younger generation on what pitfalls to expect and what they felt were the most important areas of investigation. Rosemarie is presently working on Volumes 2 and 3 of this new series for us.

We now have some reviews of the 14th issue of the Anomalist journal, entitled Electricity of the Mind, to share with you. Peter Rogerson, in his review of the book for Magonia, does a wonderful job of linking most of the contents of this volume of essays to a common theme: “Texts contain hidden secrets, and new technologies are helping to unearth them. Older texts may contain the strangest stories and the ones that require the most textual analysis to help tease out their meaning.” He ends his review with these fine words: “As always in the Anomalist the good stuff far outweighs the dross, and recommended to all Forteans and explorers of the matrix of ghosts.” Tom Ruffles, in his review of the book for the Society for Physical Research, picked out his two favorite essays: “There are two stand-out papers here, one by Theo Paijmans, the other by Mike Jay. Paijmans … gives us … some fine examples of how searching newspaper runs digitally can assist in uncovering stories. A major benefit of this is the ability to check huge quantities of text quickly, throwing up variants of the same story in different publications…The always reliable Mike Jay looks at Coleridge…[and] concludes that Coleridge, being poised to elaborate a new psychology, then drew back, perhaps because he found it beyond his capabilities, though he incorporated these insights into his wider literary theories. The main point was that imagination was not mechanical but was fluid, capable of synthesis and recombination.” Finally, Paul Sieveking of the Fortean Times chose to highlight another essay in his review of the book: “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 Kephas’ exploring the implications of treating anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and alien abductee Whitley Strieber as genuine witnesses of shamanic phenomena, conduits for superior intelligence. This is an intriguing thought experiment, but I still suspect The Teachings of Don Juan and Communion are ingenious fiction rather than travelogues from the Land of Magonia. However, this anthology deserves a place on every fortean’s bookshelf.” So, thank you, Ian Simmons, who did such a bang-up job as the guest editor on this volume!

You’d be amazed at how many people have said, “Oh, that’s happened to me!” whenever we mention the experience of streetlights going off (or sometimes on) when walking near them, and our new book on the subject by Hilary Evans called SLIders: The Enigma of Streetlight Interference. In fact, one reviewer of the book, David Taylor at Northern Earth, admits it has happened to him. “As strange as it sounds…” Taylor goes on to write, “this excellent book by Hilary Evans shows that it is a very real phenomenon. As this is the first full length book on the subject, this is destined to become a classic.” Over at Magonia, Peter Rogerson found the book “interesting but ultimately frustrating” because after discussing the experiences and comments of 215 correspondents, Evans was not able to find a consistent pattern to SLI. “Some people,” writes Rogerson, “experience it when they are sad, others when they are elated, some have to be under the street light, others metres away, with some people it only happens when they don’t concentrate or think about the light, others when they do, usually only one light goes off, but sometimes more than one does.” Micah Hanks, at The Gralien Report, was especially impressed by the author’s style: “…one welcoming quality about Evans’s book that I found in particular is the almost ‘comfort-reading’ it provides through the recollection of a variety of collected accounts and stories throughout the text. In doing so, Evans evokes a story-telling element somewhat reminiscent of the styles of greats like Clark, Steiger and Sanderson; but with his diverse experience and long-held interests in Fortean subjects, Evans’s own unique style emerges with vibrant character and the familiar contemplative nature of his previous works. Though managing to capture the reader’s mind with his tales, there remains very much to be explored with regard to SLI phenomenon, to which Evans at one point pauses to describe as ‘a rogue force, a loose cannon, neither understood or controlled.’” And finally, Nick Redfern summed it all up nicely for us at Reviews of the Mysterious Kind: “Anomalist Books have carved for themselves a first-class niche in the field of publishing thought-provoking and near-unique titles on anomalies of the mind, the physical world, and those strange realms beyond. And, SLIders is a great addition to [their] ever-expanding list of titles.”