A Halloween favorite spooks up a new and expanded edition.
A unique guide to the world of the paranormal, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Ghosts and Hauntings is a perennial favorite. Now updated, revised, and expanded with new information on ghost hunting and observing, this new edition includes new tips on gathering and recording paranormal data, and a new section devoted to “faking it”—showing readers how to haunt their own houses to amuse and
bewilder friends.
• Expanded appendixes featuring new Internet sites devoted to the paranormal, as well as modern-day “haunted houses” open to the public
• Additional information on the origin of spiritualism and its followers
• Strong seller for Halloween season
• Completely reorganized for easier reading and referencing
Tom Ogden is an internationally lauded magician and comedian. Two-time winner of the coveted “Parlour Magician of the Year Award” by Magic Castle in Hollywood, he has appeared on television shows such as The World’s Greatest Magic II and The Great Magic of Las Vegas. Mr. Ogden lives in Hollywood, California.
Tom Ogden has been a professional magician for more than 30 years, which sparked his interest in the paranormal. He has been featured on several televised magic specials and has opened for the Osmond Brothers and Robin Williams, among others. A consistent contributor to such magic magazines as
Genii and
The Magic Manuscript, he is the author of several books, including
200 Years of the American Circus: From Aba-Daba to Zoppe-Zavata and
The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Magic Tricks.