Hollow's Hauntology: A Compendium of Mythological Creatures and Paranormal Phenomena - Hardcover

by Evelyn Hollow (Author)

"A gloriously ghoulish compendium of all things uncanny. Evelyn Hollow is the perfect guide to a world of weird creatures, ghosts, and monsters. Read it by the fireside, if you dare . . . " - Danny Robins

• The global origins of vampires, revealing how figures from the strigon of Croatia to China's jiangshi emerged from shared anxieties around death and disease.
• The deep psychological roots of animal transformation, showing how werewolves, shapeshifters, and divine hybrids embody our shifting relationship with nature and identity.
• How demonology evolved, documenting the political, religious, and cultural forces that transformed gods into demons and reshaped moral cosmologies.
• Formless, non-corporeal entities and how these uncanny beings without faces or bodies have haunted collective memory.
• Forgotten and contested deities, charting how divine figures change as cultures shift.

Author Biography

Evelyn Hollow is a double academy award winning Scottish writer and paranormal psychologist. She was a resident author at Esoterica Zine for more than four years, was the recipient of the 2015 Lonely Planet Travel Writing Scholarship, the occult columnist for Corvid Culture, and has taught writing classes at everywhere from universities to arts festivals. She has also been featured in exhibitions at ESAF and is the creator of The Baer Archive. She is a former psychology lecturer and holds a Master of Research degree in Paranormal Psychology. She now consults as a paranormal psychologist and expert for various TV shows and podcasts -- most recently the smash-hit BBC shows The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny. She is also 1/4 of the team on the new TV show Spooked Scotland airing on the Discovery Channel in May 2022. Evelyn gives guest talks on paranormal history and the quantum physics of anomalous phenomena.