It is 1938. In order to create a reservoir in western Massachusetts, five towns will be flooded. Public morality is undone. Church services are supplanted by pagan rituals in the woods. The hurricane of 1938 completes the destruction. Amid nature's magnificence and man's inhumanity, fifteen-year-old Jamieson is losing the world of his youth.

In European Paganism, Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspect of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice and pilgrimage to luna worship.

Ordinarily the new-year brings renewed hope and promise of better things to come. However, nineteen ninety-eight had scarce begun when a mysterious curtain of evil descended onto the shoulders of a modern metropolis. Detective Ken Basten, one of LA's finest, knew at once this case was like no other. When he replaced his murdered colleague his instincts told him a pagan cult must be connected to this hideous crime. His instincts were right; though he had no idea of the evil that a satanic worshiper had unleashed upon the city. His investigation will take him down winding, confusing turns to discover the answers he seeks.

With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been crowned the Patron Saint of Humor. Before the Sopranos, there were the Cascones.... Life al Dente, the new memoir from the author of Pagan Babies, brings the same wit and wonder to the telling of Gina Cascone's Italian-American girlhood...well, boyhood actually. In an Italian family, few things are a greater handicap than being born female, but Gina's Dad generously decided to overlook this shortcoming and raise Gina as a boy - the son he always wanted.

Pagan Ireland was full of wonders that have somehow escaped the mass consciousness, and Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions documents them, elucidating controversies and tracing ideas to their roots. Although Bonwick draws heavily from anthropological research, historians, and ancient manuscripts, he does not discount the value of folklore and oral tradition.

Born to an Indian chieftain and then sold as a slave by her mother, the pagan princess Marina becomes the fierce Conqueror, Cortes' concubine. Of course this is to the displeasure of the jealous yet gentle soldier Juan, whose fire burns strong for Marina as he watches the warrior Cortes possess the key to his Golden Empire - a key he is determined to possess himself.

Someone has been performing the Black Mass in an old, abandoned chapel at Stanton Rocks. The local priest, Tom Pridough, is convinced it was Nich Mordaunt, local high-profile pagan, and his friend, the stunning brunette Juliana. Tired of the churchman's confusion of diabolism with his own nature-worship. Nich too sets out to find out who is responsible, and all three become embroiled in a weired and perverse world of sex-magic.

The author illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved.

Natural Desires follows the efforts of the pagan Nich Mordaunt and the unprincipled lothario Anderson Croom to locate the legacy of notorious cultist Julian Blackman. Each has his own agenda, and their search takes them through a series of ritualistic and outright perverse erotic encounters towards the climax.

Six lectures by Thomas Carlyle include: Hero as Divinity (Odin; Paganism; Scandinavian mythology); Hero as Prophet (Mohammed; Islam); Hero as Poet (Dante; Shakespeare); Hero as Priest (Luther; Reformation, Knox; Puritanism); Hero as Man of Letters (Johnson, Rousseau, Burns); Hero as King (Cromwell, Napoleon; Modern Revolutionism).

This guide offers a beginner's look at the history of paganism, Wicca, and witchcraft, from the Druids and Celts to the witches of today who practice an earth-based religion, cast spells, and perform natural magic. The book, written by a practicing witch, reveals details of the witches' Sabbaths, ceremonies, and altars.