This is a lively, common-sense compendium of detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. The book includes 425 definitions and essays on topics ranging from alchemy to zombies, covering such categories as alternative medicine, cryptozoology, extraterrestrials and UFOs, frauds and hoaxes, junk science and pseudoscience, logic and philosophy, New Age ideas, the occult and supernatural, the paranormal, and the psychic.