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Contains a performance of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," by French composer Paul Dukas, and includes a profile of Dukas, as well as an introduction to the composition, story, and key musical elements.

A child notices some magical things about the man who moves in next door--but no one else does.

Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.

Briefly discusses the a wide variety of supernatural phenomena.

Presents a collection of essays that examine opposing points of view about paranormal phenomena, including the evidence for paranormal experiences, the reasons that people believe in them, and whether such beliefs conflict with religious beliefs.

When the Stanley children meet Amanda and discover that she studies witchcraft, they suspect that she is causing the strange happenings around their house.

Describes some of history's most amazing illusions, and provides instructions on how to re-create eighteen of these tricks, including information on how to hypnotize friends, test a house for ghosts, make a fake UFO photograph and video, and other convincing hoaxes.

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

The author introduces his favorite stories of the paranormal from each state of the Union.

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

Presents five hoaxes that have appeared since the beginning of the twentieth century including Edward Gardner's claim that he captured fairies on film in 1917 through to the crop circle craze in the 1960s.

In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her "fae," or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.

Offers comprehensive information on the mysterious or unexplained, and attempts to separate fact from fiction along with many viewpoints on controversial topics.

In 1951, while visiting a distant cousin in the English countryside, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt accidentally unleashes demonic forces and summons the ghost of an evil wizard bent on killing the Barnavelt family.