I. Works Skeptical of Psychic, Occult or Religious Phenomena
-----The Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985).
-----The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, ?).
-----Hypnosis: the Cognitive-behavioral Perspective, edited by Nicholas P. Spanos and John F. Chaves (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
-----A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, edited by Paul Kurtz. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985).
-----Paranormal Phenomena (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1991).
-----Philosophy of Science and the Occult, edited by Patrick Grim. 2nd ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).
-----Science Confronts the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).
-----Scientists Confront Creationism, edited by Laurie R. Godfrey. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983).
-----The Wreck of the Titanic foretold? edited by Martin Gardner (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).
Alcock, James E. Science and Supernature : a Critical Appraisal of Parapsychology (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Baker, Robert A. They Call It Hypnosis (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Bauer, Henry H. The Enigma of Loch Ness : Making Sense of a Mystery (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1986).
Beveridge, W.I.B. The Art of Scientific Investigation (New York: Vintage Books, 1957).
Brenneman, Richard J. Deadly Blessings : Faith Healing on Trial (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Blackmore, Susan J., The Adventures of a Parapsychologist, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986).
Blackmore, Susan J., Dying to Live : Near-death Experiences, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993).
Churchland, Patricia Smith. Neurophilosophy - Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986).
Clements, Tad S. Science versus Religion (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Dawes, Robyn M. House of Cards - Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth, (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
De Camp, L. Sprague The Ancient Engineers (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977).
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (Montgomery, Vt.: Bradford Books, 1978).
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Consciousness explained illustrated by Paul Weiner (Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1991).
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995).
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Elbow room : the varieties of free will worth wanting (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1984).
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Kinds of minds : toward an understanding of consciousness (New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 1996).
Ellis, Richard. Monsters Of The Sea: The History, Natural History, and Mythology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).
Evans, Bergen. The Natural History of Nonsense (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957).
Fedder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1990.
Friedlander, Michael W. At the Fringes of Science, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995).
Friedlander, Michael. The Conduct of Science (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972).
Frazier, Kendrick, ed. The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal - A Skeptical Inquirer Collection, ed. Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).
Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957).
Gardner, Martin. Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Gardner, Martin. How Not To Test a Psychic : Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
Gardner, Martin. The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988).
Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981).
Gardner, Martin. The WHYS of a Philosophical Scrivener (New York: Quill, 1983).
Gordon, Henry. Extrasensory Deception (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987).
Gould, Stephen Jay, Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History, (New York : Norton, 1993).
Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979).
Gould, Stephen J. The Mismeasure of Man (New York, Norton: 1981).
Hansel, Charles Edward Mark. ESP; a Scientific Evaluation (New York: Scribner, 1966).
Hansel, C.E.M. ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re- Evaluation (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1980).
Hansel, C.E.M. The Search for Psychic Power : ESP and Parapsychology Revisited (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
Hicks, Robert D. In Pursuit of Satan : the Police and the Occult (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).
Hines, Terence. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Hofstadter, Douglas. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (New York: Basic Books, 1985). See especially chapter 5, "World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer".
Houdini, Harry. Houdini exposes the tricks used by the Boston medium "Margery" to win the $2500 prize offered by the Scientific American. Also a complete exposure of Argamasilla, the famous Spaniard who baffled noted scientists of Europe... (New York: Adams Press, 1924).
Houdini, Harry. Houdini's Paper Magic; the Whole Art of Performing with Paper, Including Paper Tearing, Paper Folding and Paper Puzzles (New York: E. P. Dutton & company, 1922).
Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits (New York: Harper, 1924).
Houdini, Harry. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods : a Complete Expose (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981).
Houdini, Harry. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods; a Complete Expose of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, etc., (New York: E.P. Dutton & company, 1920).
Houdini, Harry. The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin : Together with a Treatise on Handcuff Secrets (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1909).
Huber, Peter W. Galileo's Revenge : Junk Science in the Courtroom (New York: Basic Books, 1991).
Hyman, Ray. The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
Jerome, Lawrence E. Crystal Power - The Ultimate Placebo Effect (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1996).
Johnson, B. C. The Atheist Debater's Handbook (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981).
Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976).
Klass, Philip J. UFO-Abductions : a Dangerous Game (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988).
Klass, Philip J. UFOs: the Public Deceived (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983).
Kurtz, Paul. Eupraxophy : Living Without Religion (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
Kurtz, Paul. Philosophical Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Kurtz, Paul. The Transcendental Temptation : a Critique of Religion and the Paranormal (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).
Kushe, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery--Solved (New York:Warner Books, 1975).
Larue, Gerald A. The Supernatural, the Occult, and the Bible (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Lefkowitz, Mary, Not Out of Africa - How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
Loftus, Elizabeth F. Memory, Surprising New Insights Into How We Remember and Why We Forget (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1980).
Loftus, Elizabeth F. Eyewitness Testimony (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979).
Loftus, Elizabeth F. and James M.Doyle. Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Criminal (New York, N.Y.: Kluwer Law Book Publishers, 1987).
Loftus, Elizabeth and Katherine Ketcham. Witness for the Defense : The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).
Loftus, Elizabeth. The Myth of Repressed Memory (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
Lyons, Arthur and Marcello Truzzi, The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime, New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991).
Martin, Michael. Atheism : a Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
Menzel, Donald and Lyle Boyd. The World of Flying Saucers: a Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (Doubleday, 1963).
Montagu, Ashley, The Concept of Race (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1964).
Montagu, Ashley, and Edward Darling.The Ignorance of Certainty (New York: Harper & Row, 1970).
Nickell, Joe. Entities : angels, spirits, demons, and other alien beings (Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995).
Nickell, Joe. Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin (Prometheus Books: Buffalo, N.Y.).
Nickell, Joe. Looking For A Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Prometheus Books: Buffalo, N.Y., 1993).
Nickell, Joe. Psychic Sleuths (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1994).
Nickell, Joe. Secrets of the supernatural : investigating the world's occult mysteries with John F. Fischer (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1988).
Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason (1794)
Pellegrino, Charles. Unearthing Atlantis - An Archaelogical Odyssey, (New York: Random House, 1991).
Popper, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1959).
Radner, Daisie and Michael. Science and Unreason (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1982), especially chapter 3, "Marks of Pseudoscience."
Randles, Jenny and Paul Fuller. Crop Circles: a Mystery Solved (London: Robert Hale, 1990).
Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural , (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987).
Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982).
Randi, James. The Mask of Nostradamus (New York: Scribner, 1990).
Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller , (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982).
Rawcliffe, Donovan Hilton. Illusions and Delusions of the Supernatural and the Occult; the Psychology of the Occult (New York: Dover Publications, 1959).
Rawcliffe, Donovan Hilton. Occult and Supernatural Phenomena (New York: Dover, 1969?).
Ruchlis, Hy. How Do You Know It's True? Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, ?).
Sacks, Oliver W. An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales (New York : Knopf, 1995).
Sacks, Oliver W. The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales (New York : Summit Books, 1985).
Sacks, Oliver W. A leg to stand on (New York : Summit Books, 1984).
Sacks, Oliver W. Seeing voices : a journey into the world of the deaf (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989).
Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain (New York: Random House, 1979).
Schumaker, John. Wings of Illusion : the Origin, Nature, and Future of Paranormal Belief (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Schultz, Ted. ed. The Fringes of Reason, (New York: Harmony Books, 1989)
Skrabanek, Petr and James McCormick. Follies and Fallacies in Medicine (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Sheaffer, Robert. The UFO Verdict : Examining the Evidence (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986).
Smith, George H. Atheism : the Case Against God (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1979).
Stenger, Victor J. Physics and Psychics: the Search for a World Beyond the Senses (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).
Story, Ronald. The Space-gods Revealed: a Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Daniken, 2nd ed. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1980).
Wells, Gary L. and Elizabeth F. Loftus, editors, Eyewitness Testimony: Psychological Perspectives (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
II. Periodicals and Magazine articles
Crichton, Michael. "Travels With My Karma: The Psychic Adventures of a Skeptic With An Open Mind", Esquire, v109, n5 (May, 1988).
Dickson, D.H., & Kelly, I.W. "The 'Barnum effect' in personality assessment: A review of the literature," Psychological Reports, 57, 367-382, (1985).
Gardner, Martin. "Communicating with the dead: William James and Mrs. Piper," Free Inquiry (Spring, 1992), pp. 20-28.
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Evolution as Fact and Theory," in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983).
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Piltdown Revisited," in The Panda's Thumb, (New York: W.W Norton and Company).
Hyman, Ray. "`Cold Reading': How to Convince Strangers that You Know All About Them", The Skeptical Inquirer, Spring/Sumer 1977.
Randi, James. "Help stamp out absurd beliefs," Time (April 13, 1992), p. 80.
III. Reference Works on the Occult & Paranormal
-----Guide to the American Occult: Directory and Bibliography (Kansas City, Mo.: Editorial Research Service, 1986).
Clarie, Thomas C. Occult/Paranormal Bibliography: An Annotated List of Books Published in English, 1976 through 1981 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984).
Drury, Nevill. Dictionary of Mysticism and the Occult (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985).
The Encyclopedia Of The Paranormal , Gordon Stein, ed. (Buffalo: Prometheus; 1996).
Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology : A Compendium of Information on the Occult Sciences, Magic, Demonology, Superstitions, Spiritism, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Psychical Science, and Parapsychology... (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982).
Gettings, Fred. Encyclopedia of the Occult: a Guide to Every Aspect of Occult Lore, Belief, and Practice (London: Rider, 1986).
Johnson, Paul. In Search of the Masters : Behind the Occult Myth (South Boston, VA : Paul Johnson, 1991).