LILY DALE began as a newspaper assignment to cover the quaint, old-fashioned town in which everybody knows everybody and the kids can play outside at night--and where some of the inhabitants claim to be able to communicate with the dead. As a religion journalist, Christine Wicker has reported on beliefs both odd and mainstream, and when she first ...
With her trademark humor and even-handed skepticism, award-winning and bestselling author Christine Wicker leads readers on a firsthand expedition into America's burgeoning and bizarre magical community.
In Lily Dale, New York, the dead don't die. Instead, they flit among the elms and stroll along the streets. According to spiritualists who have ruled this community for five generations, the spirits never go away--and they stay anything but quiet. Every summer twenty thousand guests come to consult the town's mediums in hopes of communicating with ...
The "New York Times"-bestselling author returns to her Southern Baptist roots and takes readers deep inside the crumbling pillar of the Religious Right, exposing the surprising statistics and details of this unexpected fall.
Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young American soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seemingly normal family determines that they are in fact elves. National bestselling ...
When a Christian fundamentalist-turned-scoffer becomes the senior religion reporter for one of the nation's top newspapers, she and God find themselves on a collision course. As her journey begins, Christine Wicker knows God primarily as "the source you never get to interview." Despite this, she pursues Him anyway and begins to glimpse a God she ...
In The Eyeball Killer, investigating cop John Matthews with journalist Christine Wicker, exposes the private demons that turned one man's sick fantasies into one of the most appalling murder sprees in the annals of Texas crime. And in his jail cell, where he has been imprisoned for life, Charles Albright still paints pictures of women's eyes. ...
Lily Dale is a 122-year old town populated solely by people who believe the dead live among them. It is the oldest and largest community of spiritualists in the world. 20,000 visitors a year travel to this Victorian village in upstate New York to consult mediums in order to communicate with dead relatives and peer into their own futures. Christine ...
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