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Hey I just wanted to welcome anyone and everyone!! :)

Hello!!
I love Paranormal Stuff but I haven't really read up on it that much...although I'm a huge fan of books that have ghosts and spirits and such in them 8)

I love books on the paranormal, especially those featuring vampires. I'm a HUGE fan of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series, as well as Stephen King, James Herbert and Dean Koontz (among many others).

I very recently read Carmilla, the classic vampire tale by J. Sheridan LeFanu that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula (and it was pretty nifty!). Also recently read Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (an excellent read).

I've read a few on astral projection, where you can visit the paranormal in the astral plane...does that count? ;-)

Haven't read "ghost books" per se' but I highly recommend studying the Astral realm.....it could therapy and makes you much more aware of yourself and your ever-powerful subconscious mind.

The book, "Astral Travel and Dreams" offers a really good, but intensive course, and also has an online counterpart, which is free.

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Mostly, I'm interested in afterlife, earlier life memories and reincarnation.

Although I'm a Christian (with a bit of Eastern philosophy thrown in) my interest is related to a dream I had over and over again when I was a preschooler,

When I became a teenager and starting reading books like theRomance of Atlantis by Taylor Caldwell and The Search for the Girl With the Blue Eyes by Jess Stearn, I became absolutely convinced to the bottom of my soul that my dream was, in fact, an actual previous death memory.

->5 streamsong: Wow! Is it polite to ask what the dream was? contents I mean..8)

I read a book by an author called Marie Corelli recently, titled A Romance Of Two Worlds. It was quite weird actually and dealt with a lot of astral travel stuff. Bear in mind it was written in the 1920s I believe, so some of the ideas may seem a bit odd now. The author herself was famous at the time for her "spiritualist" books so she may be worth looking into.

Hi mem

The problem with posting on an open board is that once before on a board (not LT) I was pretty well taken to task by those who thought my belief had me on the slippery path to Hell... and others tried to logically convince me that it wasn't possible.

But fools jump in...so the short version is that I was a small child picnicking with some other children--being overseen by two older ones. We were in an old quarry with trees and a pond in the bottom. We were very happy--it was one of the first days of spring and we had been told the war was over. We saw some planes coming towards us and assumed they were 'ours' since the war was over. We were waving and jumping up and down, trying to catch their attention and then the bombs started to fall.

In the past year, I have been working with a therapist sho is a specialist in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I was treated with EMDR for events completely unrelated to this, and had gotten a lot of relief. She does not believe in reincarnation, but after bringing the dream up with her several times, we worked through it with EMDR. (I'll let you google EMDR if you're interested). All I can say is that before, when even thinking of this dream--which I no longer had after I was seven or so and I am now 50--my throat would close up, my eyes would fill with tears and I would have that hollow panicky feeling in my gut. Now I can discuss it easily, but just don't want to have to defend my experience with it. :)

The very interesting thing about 'fessing up to it online is that I have met two other people--one from the UK & one from the Czeck Republic--who have had similar experiences (although their deaths were different of course).

Streamsong- it's a free LT so go ahead and post whatever you want! 8)
What a terrible dream (or memory) to have!! Does the dream give any hint as to where you guys were? Maybe you could look at old newspapers around that area and find out your name and stuff. I can't say I believe or disbelieve but I've had enough weird experiences to say nothing about this life (or lives) surprises me!

->#7 I only know the basics of astral travel but the concept itself is pretty cool. I wouldn't mind reading a bit more about it! It's just hard to find books about those kind of things that aren't completely off the edge!

Hey Everyone. I am so glad that y'all decided to join and hope that y'all like it here.

I recently read the mediator seires by meg cabot. It's about a girl you can talk to ghosts and she has to deal with them while deling with everything that goes on for a teenager. Really Good read if you're intrested in ghosts, even if the book in YA.

Ya, I'm also a lover of vampires, werewolves, and sometimes fairies. I like Rice, Laurel K. Hamilton, and I just found a new author that's quite good, L.A. Banks. I'm getting into here Vampire Huntress series. Also, I found a werewolf writer called Donna Boyd who I'm really starting to like.

Am reading a novel about a woman P.I. who was revived after being dead for about 2 minutes and now she can "walk" in both the world of the living and the world of the ~ hmm, I was going to say "dead," but it's not only ghosts in the mist. Anyway, the book called Greywalker by Kat Richardson. I wasn't sure about it at first, but now that I'm about halfway through it, I'm finding it hard to put down.

->12 Storeetllr: 8) you'll have to tell us how it was after you finish it. I picked it up at the store but then decided to buy another book instead. Maybe I'll regret that after your final judgment!

I read Greywalker as well and thought it was pretty good. Another really similar book is Wraith except with a main character who's too stupid to live. I swear she wants to die. I did like the concept of being a traveler in the spirit world however.

Oh, yeah, vicky ~ one thing about Greywalker was the fresh twist (to me, at least) of walking in the spirit world on the old concept of a paranormal mystery.

As it turned out, MEM, I really liked Greywalker. The beginning was slow and hard for me to get into, but around the 4th chapter I was hooked, and by the end I couldn't put it down.

Not my favorite mfc ~ not stupid exactly, but I thought she dragged out the "oh, no, this can't be happening to me" and "yes, I am experiencing some really strange and inexplicable phenomenon pretty much constantly, but I'm sure these nice people who are trying to help me deal with it must be out of their minds, so I think I'll just go home and hide under the covers until it all goes away" protestations a bit longer than was sensible under the circ., which got tiresome, but when she finally accepted her condition, she turned out okay.

All in all, it was good urban fantasy and I enjoyed it enough to hope for a series.

*grin* with so many good recommendations I'll have to pick it up again and give it a whirl!

hey all. i love the whole thought about how ghosts exists. i have actually encountered a ghost. it sort of resembled a little girl. it was scary but cool at the same time.

Oooh, twlight ~ when & how did the encounter come about?

I was outside playing with some of my friends and i happened to glance at the street light and thats when i saw her. i was creepy. she looked very young and scared. but thats all i remember.

Who doesn't like paranormal stuff?

Werewolves, vampires, ghosts, etc., reflect our shared cultural experience. They'll always be popular and remind us that despite our vaunted rationalism, there always will be 'things that go bump in the night' which tickle the lizard brain's reflexes.

Is it just me, or has the zombie genre enjoyed a bit of a renaissance post-9/11? And if so, why?

Hi, I am new to Library Thing.. but I enjoy paranormal books. Currently reading Shadows of the Dark by John Zaffis. The book offers a good beginning and a full length interview on Zaffis.

I've never tried that one. I enjoy ghost stories more than vampires or werewolves.

cal8769...what are some of your favorites?

Black House by Stephen King. Storm of the Century by King I love when Andre Lenouge (spelling?) says, "Give me what I want and I will go away." That is seriously disturbing. Ghost Story by Peter Straub, my first Horror story that I ever read. I recently read My Favorite Horror Story. It's a collection of stories that famous horror story writers pick as their favorite.

I have all of Steven King books. I remember actually throwing a book down on the couch and walking away from it for about an hour or two before I could pick it back up. That wasCujo.

You're a better fan than I. I read Cujo shortly after my son was born. I think I got all the way to the end, or at least close. I was so disgusted by the blatant manipulation and (sorry to be so blunt) horrible writing that I didn't read anything else by him (except articles in Entertainment Weekly) for 20+ years. I finally came back for the unabridged The Stand, which I found made a lot more sense that way.

I was not surprised when I read that King said he was so high when he wrote Cujo that he didn't even remember any of it.

Have you read any Joe Hill? I read Heart-shaped box and was pleasantly surprised.

I loved it. Try his 20th Century Ghosts It is wonderful. His short stories were anywhere from touching to really screwed up.

Per your suggestion, I have placed a hold on it from my library. I look forward to it.
Thanks!