An account of the author's experience with the planchette, a forerunner of the Ouija board. The planchette, a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus, was used to facilitate automatic writing, thought to reveal subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, and clairvoyant messages. The narrative, implied to have been written through the planchette itself, describes encounters with a number of operators and guests, including transcriptions of conversations between the planchette and various interlocutors.

The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.

Grab an eggnog, gather ’round the fireplace and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange holiday occurrences from times past! Holiday folklore traditions from around the United States are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and witches populate the pages of this compelling holiday collection. From Hanukkah and Christmas to Three Kings Day and New Year's, these spooky stories will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Dia datang bila cahaya menghilang... Tragedi pembunuhan enam orang remaja di sebuah banglo terbengkalai itu 15 tahun lalu menyebabkan banglo itu digelar banglo angker. Ada yang mengatakan roh enam orang remaja yang mati dibunuh di banglo itu masih bergentayangan dan tidak aman sehingga sekarang. Hal itu membuatkan Fazlie, Amir dan Farina yang telah menubuhkan kumpulan penerjah aktiviti paranormal dengan nama Ghost To Ghost bersama tiga lagi ahli jemputan khas mereka telah memilih banglo itu sebagai lokasi mereka yang seterusnya untuk merakam aktiviti paranormal yang ada di sana. Namun, ketika mereka cuba merakam aktiviti paranormal yang ada di banglo lama dan terbengkalai itu, satu tragedi yang hampir sama seperti tragedi pembunuhan 15 tahun lalu kembali berulang! Apakah sebenarnya telah berlaku? Adakah banglo itu benar-benar angker seperti yang dihebohkan di internet? Siapakah dalang yang sebenarnya di antara mereka berenam? Mampukan Inspektor Hairy dan Saleha menyelesaikan kes misteri ini. “Saya tak tahu. Keadaan gelap-gelita, kami tak nampak apa yang berlaku. Saya cuma dengar suara aje. Perkara tu berlaku bila semua lampu tiba-tiba terpadam.” ~ Fahmi “Penjelasan apa lagi? Rakaman video yang saya dapat tu dah membuktikan yang dia bersalah kerana membunuh mangsa yang bernama Riena. Video tu boleh dijadikan bahan bukti untuk dakwa dia kat mahkamah. Nyawa yang dia dah bunuh bukan seorang tau? Tapi empat orang!” ~ Inspektor Hairy “Makhluk tu macam tak bagi kita merungkai misteri yang ada di sebalik kes ni. ‘Dia’ macam tak bagi kita bertemu dengan Encik Ismail.” ~ Saleha

List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.