Shadow World, Brad Steiger’s book on multidimensional beings, tricksters, shape-shifters, spirit mimics, and spirit parasites, is generating high praise and otherworldly sales. Brent Raynes at Alternate Perceptions says “Brad Steiger offers his readers various thoughtful and carefully researched possible interpretations for these very puzzling manifestations…that may unexpectedly intrude into our own lives.” We think Raynes may have had a hard time putting the book down: “You’ll have a hell of a time prying your fingers loose from this riveting book of true spine-chilling supernatural accounts…” Nick Redfern provides a very thoughtful review of the book on his blog at UFO Mystic. “Although Steiger does not go down the alien path in Shadow World,” writes Redfern, “it became clear to me on reading his book that the other-worldly entities – and their actions and activities – that he discusses are eerily similar in many ways to those of our so-called ‘aliens’…Steiger highlights case after case that will not sit well with those who see the afterlife as being one based merely around the simplistic ‘love and light’ approach.” “Wolfman” Dan Allen, a writer and illustrator for Studio Ronin, echoes these thoughts: “Shadow World is a chilling sojourn through the realm of the spirit world, and once again challenges our perception of where and why spirit beings originate. No, this is no mere gallery of ghosts and ghouls; it provides a panoramic painting of the motives and classifications of ethereal beings…Once again, my hat goes off to Brad for expanding our knowledge…”

We began publishing a journal called The Anomalist 13 years ago and here we are coming out with issue number 13. We are calling this issue Intermediate States. As usual, the journal covers topics all over the fortean map, from UFOs and strange earthquake phenomena, to sea serpents and out-of-body experiences, and everything in-between and beyond. Writers for this issue include Loren Coleman, Theo Paijmans, Nick Redfern, Ulrich Magain, Mark Macy, Victoria Alexander, Sharon Hill, David Hricenak, Dwight Smith, Gary Mangiacopra, John Reppion, and Cliff Willett. We thank all our writers for their wonderful contributions, and we thank our readers for their dedicated support over the years.

Dr. David Clarke has reviewed Strange Company for Fortean Times and it’s a good one. “Strange Company makes clear for the first time,” writes Clarke, “just how frequent the wartime sightings were and the concern they created within Allied military, who seriously feared they could be advanced secret weapons developed by the Axis forces. This gave rise to the persistent myth that foo-fighters were highly advanced flying saucers created by Nazi scientists, whose designs were later captured and developed in secrecy by the Americans. The proponents of this bizarre theory will find little to support their claims in this sensible, sober book which largely sticks to primary source material…” Clarke also notes: “Possibly the most intriguing revelation in this book are the results of Keith Chester’s inquiries at the US National Archives, which threw up references to a joint US and British foo-fighter investigation later in the war, and a direct link with post-war UFO studies by the intelligence services. Most important of all was the involvement in wartime investigations of Bob Robertson, the US physicist who presided over a scientific panel which reviewed the UFO evidence for the CIA in 1953.” It seems to us that the summary line for the review says it all: “A must-read for ufologists of all persuasions.”

Everyone knows that Brad Steiger is one hell of a great writer of paranormal books. But have you ever caught him on the radio? If not, you’ve missed out on a real treat. But you can remedy that situation this month, as Brad is handing out treats on the radio all month long. No doubt he’ll be mentioning Shadow World and Strange Guests, as well as some of his other 160 books on the paranormal. Here’s his schedule:

October 2, Explore Your Spirit with Kala
October 5, New England Ghost Project with Ron Kolek
October 12, Jeff Rense, along with Jeff Belanger and Joe Leto on Ghost Hunting, and Wolfman Dan Allen on Werewolves and shapeshifting
October 13, Beyond Reality, 7-10 EST, with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of Sci-Fi channel’s Ghost Hunters
October 14, Emilio on the Graveyard Shift 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM EDT
October 17, TAPS 5:00 PM and Julia Cole 9:00 PM.
October 18, The Kevin Smith Show 10 PM Eastern.
October 19, Allan Handelman 3-6pm. This three-hour program, which covers
most of the lower Eastern seaboard, will be edited and rebroadcast on his
nationally syndicated Rock Talk on Sunday, October 28.
October 20, As You Wish with James Gilliand
October 20, Erskine Overnight
October 23, Journeys with Rebecca
October 24, Joyce Keller
October 26, Jeff Rense, along with Dr. Dave and Sharon on EVPs and Paul Bartholomew on Monsters
October 27, WCCO CBS Minneapolis, 1-3:30 AM with Brad Walton
October 27, The Edge with Daniel Ott
October 28, Branson Tonight with Tiffany and Logan St. James
October 31, Jeff Rense, along with Loren Coleman on Monsters, Ray Buckland on Wicca, and Gordon Melton on Vampires
November 2, Haunted Voices Radio with Todd Bates
December 1, Exploring Unexplained Phenomena with host Scott H. Colborn, 10 am Central Time.

Don’t miss him!

A couple of avid fans of Anomalist Books have asked: What are the best selling Anomalist Books titles? That changes from day to day and month to month, of course, so we’ll offer you a snapshot of top five for August of 2007:
1. Strange Company
2. Encounters at Indian Head
3. Heavenly Lights
4. Celestial Secrets
5. Worlds Before Our Own
(tie) The President’s Vampire
And for September, we can already tell that our newest release, Shadow World, will take over the number one slot, thanks in large part to Brad Steiger’s appearance on Coast to Coast.

We are pleased to offer our reprint of Brad Steiger’s Shadow World, free of the soft, New Age spin the previous publisher had put on the book. This edition presents the darkside unadulterated. Our back cover blurb reads: “Having conducted research through five decades and across four continents, investigator Brad Steiger concludes that a richly populated Shadow World exists all around us. When it impinges on our ordinary plane of shared reality, this dark dimension is sometimes frightening, occasionally menacing, but always worthy of cautious exploration. Spirits of the dead are but one of the many types of beings that inhabit in the Shadow World. Others appear to be multidimensional beings, some of whom may be benign, while others seem to be cosmic tricksters or troublemakers bent on mischief. And unfortunately some of the beings that seem to have our best interests at heart may in fact have entered our world with the intention of possessing our bodies or capturing our souls.” Not for the squeamish.

We admit to a preference for positive reviews of our books over negative ones, but here is one negative review that’s well worth a gander. It’s an astonishing 5,141-word diatribe on D. Scott Rogo’s The Haunted Universe. The review, written by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, appears on the Amazon page for Rogo’s book. Anyone who cares to write that much about one of our books earns the right not to like it in our opinion. But it’s not all bad news by any means. Knight-Jadczyk begins by citing several statements by Rogo that she has “discovered” herself. Elsewhere she “agrees” with Rogo and admits he “does a pretty good job” here and there. What really seems to set her off, however, is Rogo’s treatment of the “Lethbridge experience,” referring to Tom Lethbridge, the director of excavations for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society who had no interest in psychical research until after he retired. She states that “Rogo has manipulated the facts and avoided valuable data that lead to other explanations for many of the things dismissed or misinterpreted by Rogo.” This criticism goes on for half of the stunningly long review, before she finally awards Rogo “two stars for trying.” One person who provides a blistering comment of her review on Amazon states that the reviewer manages to make Rogo sound like “a perfectly reasonable writer…” and also says: “I wanted to know more about [the review’s] author and wasn’t dissapointed when I found her blog and related websites.” Indeed, it seems to us that Knight-Jadczyk has several axes to grind and is not exactly well loved in the blogosphere. We’ll just leave it at that and step out of the way…

Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II is beginning to attract media attention and from the looks of it, the book is going to be huge. The July issue of UFO Magazine carries a 10-page interview with the auhtor, Keith Chester, by Nick Refern. The opening blurb states: “Packed with never-before-seen documentation, witness testimony, and reams of new data, Strange Company is likely to be one of the most talked about UFO books of this year…” The book then receives its first review in the August issue of Fate, which calls the book “an extensive, exceptionally documented, and in-depth account of UFOs observed and reported by the military during World War II.” Reviewer John Zupansic concludes: “Chester has indeed produced a ufological gem.”

We have seen a surge in the sales of our reprints of the first two volumes of the Fátima trilogy due to the pent-up demand resulting from the demise of the books’ original publisher last year. The first review out of the gate comes courtesy of the excellent site known as Disinformation. The reviewer, who goes by the name “mortimer,” begins by summarizing the thesis: “The trilogy argues, quite convincingly, that the famous Fátima incident of 1917 … did not actually involve a series of Marian apparitions (as is commonly accepted) but may in fact have been a sequence of extra-terrestrial encounters of a most unusual nature.” His review focuses on the second volume, Celestial Secrets: The Hidden History of the Fátima Incident, that “explores the supposed church ‘cover-up’ surrounding the matter, which the authors claim has both influenced the modern interpretation of the Fátima incident and concealed what may very likely be one of the first recorded cases of a 20th century alien encounter…The book left me convinced that indeed a church cover-up had occurred.” Though not totally convinced of the ufological interpretation, the reviewer found “the subject and the recorded events make for compelling reading in whatever context one wishes to interpret them.” The book, he concludes is “a pleasure to read.”

A new website called The Paranormal Report has given The Universe Wants to Play: The Anomalist 12 a five alien heads rating, which we assume is the equivalent of five thumbs-up. The book, the reviewer writes, “is a stellar, highly engaging affair, yet to be even remotely rivaled by any this year, thus far. The volume’s biggest strength is a distinct gift for conjuring a vivid, palpable image of the unfamiliar, within the span of just a few pages. There is much to enjoy here, both eloquently written insights and investigative accounts of fortean topics make up the eclectic 212 page volume. Very highly recommended.” Our heads are swelling, like aliens!