NF Display October 2013

October marks a full year of my non-fiction displays, and also my last display at my current library.  I'm not sure when I will next do a display, but hopefully I will have opportunities again in the near future after I settle into the new library.  Displays have served as a small distraction task, one I can do when I need something to fill the time or am just to overwhelmed to do anything involved.  I get to be creative and productive while hopefully raising interest in our collections.

For once I went somewhat traditional for this month's holiday and went with the paranormal, with a strong focus on ghosts.  As books go out, and they have started going out quite immediately, I expect to branch the selection out a bit.

Who ya gonna call?
  • The encyclopedia of witches and witchcraft / Rosemary Ellen Guiley
  • The new encyclopedia of the occult / John Michael Greer
  • Paranormal people : the famous, the infamous, and the supernatural / Paul Chambers
  • The haunting of America : from the Salem witch trials to Harry Houdini / William J. Birnes
  • The haunting of twentieth-century America / Joel Martin & William Birnes
  • Supernatural : your guide through the unexplained, the unearthly and the unknown / Colin Wilson
  • Spook : science tackles the afterlife / Mary Roach
  • Best true ghost stories / Hans Holzer
  • Historic haunted America / Michael Norman
  • Ghost : investigating the other side / Katherine M. Ramsland
  • When the ghost screams : true stories of victims who haunt / Leslie Rule
  • An experience of phantoms / Scott D. Rogo
  • Haunted encounters : ghost stories from around the world / Ginnie Siena-Bivona, Dorothy McConachie, & Mitchel Whitington (eds)
  • Paranormal America : ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture / Christopher David Bader
  • America bewitched : the story of witchcraft after Salem / Owen Davies
  • Real ghosts, restless spirits, and haunted places / Brad Steiger
  • Ghost hunters : William James and the search for scientific proof of life after death / Deborah Blum
  • A history of ghosts : the true story of seances, mediums, ghosts, and ghostbusters / Peter H. Aykroyd
  • Ghosts among us : uncovering the truth about the other side / James Van Praagh
  • Relax, it's only a ghost : my adventures with spirits, hauntings, and things that go bump in the night / Echo Bodine
  • The World of Ghosts and the Supernatural : The Occult, the Unexplained, and the Mystical Around the Globe / Richard Cavendish

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