Charles M. Skinner & Varla Ventura 
May-Pole of Merrymount 
Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favourite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. Early author and historian Charles M. Skinner collected folk tales from around the world, but he had a particular passion for stories of early America. Written in 1896 this collection of short tales includes the witches, goblins, ghosts, and hauntings.