Architecture truly is a continuum. So many of the structures we see on our streets stretch thematic roots back to the temples, monuments, and places of ancient sanctity of humanity's earliest sacred expressions, and, like an ancient church, the best of them still have an indefinable grip over the imagination.

So much more than a collection of ghost stories, Buffalo's Occult Architecture, Volume 1, is a stunning analysis of some of the Niagara's grand builders and buildings from occult perspectives: sacred geometry, mystical interests, archaeoastronomy, esoteric geology-geomancy-First Nations- and world mysticism, and, yes, supernatural folklore.

Buffalo is a gallery for the great designers, and Buffalo's Occult Architecture presents a radical new aspect of its study.

- Joseph Ellicott

- Frederick Law Olmsted

- H. H. Richardson

- Andrew Jackson Warner

- Louis Sullivan

- Dietel and Wade

Avenging specters, demon-tortured roads, holy miracles, weird psychic events, prehistoric power sites, ancient curses, Native American shamans, active battlefields, ghost ships, black dogs, haunted monuments and the phantoms of Rochester s famous all are part of the legacy of Rochester and the lower Genesee. Supernatural historian Mason Winfield and the research team from Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc., take us on a spiritual safari through the Seneca homeland of the Sweet River Valley and the modern city in its place. After their survey of Rochester s super natural history and tradition, the Flour City will never look the same.

Amid the famous mineral springs and horse races, Saratoga Springs is a hub for the supernatural. Author Mason Winfield, operator of Saratoga s Haunted History Ghost Walks, chronicles the Spa City s spookiest legends, from the Iroquoian zombie-like vampires to Benedict Arnold s Halloween apparitions. The heart of the city brims with lore, as covens work in secret in the Devil s Den neighborhood and phantoms linger at the Arcade on Broadway. In the shadow of the Adirondacks, spectral lights appear on remote Snake Hill, and the Woman in White haunts Saratoga Spa State Park. Explore the creepiest legends of Saratoga history, where some gamblers never leave and demons lurk in the forests.

Explore the creepiest legends of this southern community in Supernatural Saratoga.

Amid the famous mineral springs and horse races, Saratoga Springs is a hub for the supernatural. Author Mason Winfield, operator of Saratoga's Haunted History Ghost Walks, chronicles the Spa City's spookiest legends, from the Iroquoian zombie-like vampires to Benedict Arnold's Halloween apparitions. The heart of the city brims with lore, as covens work in secret in the Devil's Den neighborhood and phantoms linger at the Arcade on Broadway. In the shadow of the Adirondacks, spectral lights appear on remote Snake Hill, and the Woman in White haunts Saratoga Spa State Park. Explore the creepiest legends of Saratoga history, where some gamblers never leave and demons lurk in the forests.

I'm a humble wizard, confides Eric Hawthorne Wood, next to the ones of fantasy. Still, he's as close to the real thing as you'll ever get. Set in 2019, The Elven Smith continues the arcane Cold War Wood saga revived in The Prince of the Air. A rookie member of a long-lived occult community

nicknaming itself the College, Wood has a role in a black economy. (Even wizards need money, he says.) Wood is a cross-continental security agent who escorts precious and sometimes enchanted artifacts from buyer to seller. The significance of most of his deliveries is above my pay grade, he concedes, but his trade is dangerous. An unusual adventure, this second book of memoirs deep-dives us into mysticism, symbolism, occultism, shamanism, world spirituality, and intrigue.

After this survey of Rochester's super natural history and tradition, the Flour City will never look the same!

Avenging specters, demon-tortured roads, holy miracles, weird psychic events, prehistoric power sites, ancient curses, Native American shamans, active battlefields, ghost ships, black dogs, haunted monuments and the phantoms of Rochester's famous--all are part of the legacy of Rochester and the lower Genesee. Supernatural historian Mason Winfield and the research team from Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc., take us on a spiritual safari through the Seneca homeland of the Sweet River Valley and the modern city in its place. After their survey of Rochester's super natural history and tradition, the Flour City will never look the same.

An anatomically perfect human jaw fashioned of a diamond-hard quartz crystal is uncovered at an Ohio burial mound and sold on the underground antiquities market. Shortly after, three pothunters are found dead.

A mysterious new drug suspected of South American origin surfaces in Buffalo, NY. Its unprecedented psychotropic effects include the momentary activation of ESP.

Blind, speechless, emaciated street people start appearing in many parts of the world. An urban legend-cycle forms around them and the name of a murderous old cult, the Whistlers, attaches to them.

An archaeological team at a Mayan site reports finding a bizarre artifact and vanishes.

A New York schoolteacher's book of upstate legends and folklore foreshadows these developments and more.

These are the threads - plus his affair with a maddening woman - that draw narrator Ward Courier into the international adventure of occultism, terror, Native American tradition, and onrushing prophecy that is Mason Winfield's anticipated new novel THE WHISTLERS: A Paranormal Intrigue. By the time the picture of THE WHISTLERS clears, we are ready to believe in a sinister conspiracy that could predate Atlantis and even hail from another world.

Eric Hawthorne Wood is a humble wizard next to the ones of fantasy. I don't wave wands or cast spells, he says. But I also happen to be real. He admits some talents that would look to you like magic and that make him one of the most dangerous people on the planet. He'd better be. His is a hazardous career.

Narrator Wood escorts invaluable and often enchanted objects from seller to buyer in the underground economy of a long-lived wizards' community nicknaming itself the College. In telling the tale of an occult truce his impulsive actions have tested, The Prince of the Air - Wood's adventurous memoirs - sweeps us into this quirky world-within-our-world, one of superhuman abilities, monstrous assassins, tripwire deception, and ageless intrigue.