Mike Jay's Updated Version of The Air Loom Gang--Random House, 288 pages, on sale January 2014 in the USA.

A must-have for anyone interested in the first known case of an "influencing machine" that shoots rays at its victims. The machine emerged from the mind of one James Tilly Matthews in the early 1800s. Matthews described the "Air Loom" machine and its operators in great detail. Ye Ed quoted from this great book in his own War Over Lemuria.






Creatures of the Night-
In Search of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Demons

I.B. Tauris, 256 pages.

This is Greg Reeces' latest book in his series of the odd, the bizarre, and the incredible. Shavertron readers will remember Greg from his previous book, Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs, which featured Shavertron among the other bizarre beliefs. And Greg knows bizarre when he sees it! How do we know? Take a look at the photo in this Fortean Times interview. Don't let the collegiate exterior fool you. Greg is a vampire hunter if we ever saw one!