Paul M. Hollister crafts a richly layered tribute to an American estate where history, patriotism, and family legacy intertwine across centuries. The manor is more than a relic of colonial grandeur, it’s the stage for nine generations of Charles Carrolls, the last of whom signed the Declaration of Independence. Ghost stories mingle with memories, and lineage is quietly honored not with pomp, but with creaking floorboards and ivy-covered walls.

Ruth Edna Kelley explores the deep-rooted rituals and beliefs of the ancient Celts, whose seasonal festivals and spirit-laden landscapes laid the foundation for Halloween. From Druidic rites in oak groves to Baal-fires lit on pastoral hillsides, Kelley unpacks a world where sun gods, prophetic dreams, and animal-shaped souls intersected with the rhythms of the year.

It's now 200 years since "The Year Without a Summer", when a volcanic sun-obscuring ash cloud caused temperatures to plummet. Explore how it offers an alternative lens through which to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book begun in its midst.

A curious case of supposed dream telepathy at the end of the US Civil War, in which old ideas about the prophetic nature of dreaming collided with loss, longing, and new possibilities of communication at a distance.

Said to be spawn of the devil and possessed with prophetic insight, Mother Shipton was Yorkshire's answer to Nostradamus. She wielded power for centuries — from the Tudor courts, through civil war, to the spectre of Victorian apocalypse.