The few authors who write more positively of the existence of paranormal phenomena include Alan Gauld, Andrew MacKenzie, Daryl Bem, and Robert Morris. The topics cover a wide range of aspects of the paranormal. In addition, there are entries on individuals who were associated with particular claims. These include mediums Leonora Piper and Eusapia Palladino, and such individuals as Carlos Casta eda and Don Juan, Nostradamus, and Sai Baba. In addition to alphabetical listing, an index facilitates searches for these and other topics.
Several entries deserve mention for their thoroughness.
Although presumably not intended as such, this work can be seen as a skeptical manifesto on the wide range of the paranormal. As such, it balances the perspectives presented by believers and more neutral observers and students of these subjects in other similar works. Much of what is said is common sense, alerting everyone to the possibility of alternate explanations for a variety of claims. An example of this is the entry on psychic healing by Christopher French. But regardless of these virtues, I would argue that there are several ways in which the critical and skeptical view that characterizes this work could have been improved.