Robert Todd Carroll
Bookstore
A Skeptic's Bibliography & Bookstore
The Ray Hyman Room
The Paranormal & the Psychic
click on *** to order from Amazon.com
------Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology : A Compendium of Information on the Occult Sciences, Magic, Demonology, Superstitions, Spiritism, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Psychical Science, and Parapsychology... (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982).
-----The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996). ***
-----The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991). ***
-----Paranormal Phenomena (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1991).
-----Science Confronts the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986). ***
-----A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, edited by Paul Kurtz. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985). ***
-----The Wreck of the Titanic foretold? edited by Martin Gardner (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).
Alcock, James E. Science and Supernature : a Critical Appraisal of Parapsychology (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). ***
Beyerstein, Barry and Dayle F. Beyerstein, editors, The Write Stuff - Evaluations of Graphology, the Study of Handwriting Analysis (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991). ***
Blackmore, Susan J., In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986). ***
Blackmore, Susan J., Dying to Live : Near-death Experiences, (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993). ***
Booth, John. Psychic Paradoxes (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986). ***
Cazeau, Charles J. Exploring the Unknown: Great Mysteries Reexamined (Da Capo Press, 1981). Paperback.
Clarie, Thomas C. Occult/Paranormal Bibliography: An Annotated List of Books Published in English, 1976 through 1981 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984).
Crichton, Michael. "Travels With My Karma: The Psychic Adventures of a Skeptic With An Open Mind", Esquire, v109, n5 (May, 1988).
Gardner, Martin. "Communicating with the dead: William James and Mrs. Piper," Free Inquiry (Spring, 1992), pp. 20-28.
Gardner, Martin. How Not To Test a Psychic : Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). ***
Gardner, Martin. The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988). ***
Gardner, Martin. Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic : More Notes of a Fringe Watcher (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996). ***
Gordon, Henry. Extrasensory Deception: Esp, Psychics, Shirley MacLaine, Ghosts, Ufos (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987). ***
Hansel, Charles Edward Mark. ESP; a Scientific Evaluation (New York: Scribner, 1966).
Hansel, C.E.M. ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re- Evaluation (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1980).
Hansel, C.E.M. The Search for Psychic Power : ESP and Parapsychology Revisited (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). ***
Hines, Terence. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990). ***
Hyman, Ray. The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). ***
Jerome, Lawrence E. Crystal Power - The Ultimate Placebo Effect (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1996). ***
Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997). ***
Leikind, Bernard J. and William J. McCarthy. "An Investigation of Firewalking," in The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, ed. Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).
Lyons, Arthur and Marcello Truzzi, The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime, New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991).
Marks, David and Richard Kammann. Psychology of the Psychic (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1979). ***
Nickell, Joe. Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1994). ***
Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995). ***
Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987). ***
Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982), chapter 5, "The Giggling Guru: A Matter of Levity".
Randi, James. The Mask of Nostradamus (New York: Scribner, 1990). ***
Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller , (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982). ***
Reed, Graham. The Psychology of Anomalous Experience: A Cognitive Approach (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1988). ***
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995). ***
Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997) ***
Schultz, Ted. ed. The Fringes of Reason, (New York: Harmony Books, 1989)
Schumaker, John. Wings of Illusion : the Origin, Nature, and Future of Paranormal Belief (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). ***
Stenger, Victor J. Physics and Psychics: the Search for a World Beyond the Senses (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). ***
Robert Todd Carroll
Dr. Ray Hyman is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Oregon. He was a founding member of CSICOP and has been a major debunker of parapsychological studies. His article on "cold reading" is considered a classic in skeptical literature.
