Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: Books
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay, originally posted in 2003, has been slightly abridged and reworded, mainly to eliminate references to outdated links. A response from…
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Though this blog is kaput, its content — appropriately enough — lives on after death! Recently I published a nonfiction book culled from years of blog posts and also containing a great deal of original work. I call it LIFE & AFTERLIFE, and it's available in a variety of editions, including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple…
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For a variety of reasons, I've decided the time has come to essentially shut down this long-running blog. I've certainly enjoyed our conversations over the years, and I appreciate all the feedback – well, most of the feedback! 😊 – that I've received. But I think it's time to move on. For one thing, having…
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Recently I had the opportunity to take an advance look at North by Shakespeare, by Michael Blanding, which is now in print. It's an unusual work in some respects. For one thing, the author himself is something of an agnostic on the subject of Shakespearean authorship. More important, North by Shakespeare deals only in part with…
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The myth of the vampire has been around since ancient times in one form or another, but it didn't become a popular entertainment trope until the 19th century. Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker gives us the vampire we all remember, but he was preceded by others. First came Sir Francis Varney, the blood-sucking villain in a…
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I've been reading a book published in 2017 called Eusapia Paladino: Materialisations and Intellergetic Phenomena in Physical Mediumship, compiled and edited by Scott Dickerson. It's a collection of articles from the turn of the last century concerning the controversial Sicilian medium who, although she was known to cheat when she could, also almost certainly produced legitimate…
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My one-hour interview with Simon Brown on The Past Lives Podcast is now available online. Stream it here. The focus, naturally, is my recently released book The Far Horizon. The book deals with reincarnation only in the later chapters. The podcast, despite its name, explores a variety of other topics, as well.
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My friend Michael Tymn, who's written several excellent books on evidence for the afterlife and who maintains a blog at the White Crow Books site, interviewed me recently about my new book The Far Horizon. He asked good questions, as you would expect. I noticed that one commenter on Mike Tymn's site said that the…
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Well, I guess I can cross "appearing on a nationally syndicated radio show" off my bucket list. I did that earlier this week with my appearance on Coast to Coast AM, hosted by George Noory. It was sort of a trial by fire for somebody who'd never done a radio appearance before, if you don't…
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My book on the afterlife, The Far Horizon, published by White Crow, is now out as a Kindle ebook and in paperback. An Apple Books digital edition will follow. Here are some links: White Crow Books page, which includes links to Amazon sites in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan, as well as to…