Cats are natural-born yogis - they know this - and when you're practising your poses, be it downward dog, cobra, cow or crow, you'd better be ready for your kitty to upstage you. With 45 charming colour illustrations and easy-to-follow yoga poses, this delightful guide will help you perfect the 'cat stretch' and maybe even impress your flexible feline friend. 96 pages.

Whether trying to solve a problem or gaining insight into a situation, people can enlist the help of the Tarot. With companion booklet for this Lo Scarabeo deck in five languages - English, Spanish, French, Italian and German - the artwork is inspired by the potent philosopher Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy, a classic of Medieval literature. It depicts a voyage to hell, purgatory and paradise in a spiritual quest. This superb Tarot evokes the imagery of the Middle Ages in 78 colour illustrated cards without borders and 124 page booklet. Neatly boxed, 8.3 x 5.4 x 12.9cm. From a French publisher and never before discounted.

The Nameless City, Herbert West - Reanimator, The Hound, The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, The Shunned House, The Horror at Red Hook, He, The Call of Cthulhu and The History of the Necronomicon are the 11 short stories by Howard Philips Lovecraft, the pioneer of modern horror fiction. Unknowable evils, horrifying cosmic beings and supernatural terrors haunt these pages as ordinary men and women discover the truth about the Elder Gods and their dangerous ways, begin to doubt their own sanity, and must battle against their fears and their own worst instincts as they struggle to survive in the darkness. New full price gift edition with dark purple blue page edges and silver embossed hardback cover. 224 small pages.

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, a haunting, revolutionary tale of love and vampirism in the early 19th century. Nothing is what it seems when a wealthy English widower and his daughter Laura unexpectedly welcome the young Carmilla into their isolated Styrian castle. Although Laura is quickly charmed by Carmilla's grace and beauty, she thereafter falls victim to a strange, unidentifiable illness that threatens to take her life. And when an old family friend reappears to shed light on Carmilla's mysterious past, Laura realises her dear friend may prove deadly after all. The novel is testament to Le Fanu's extensive literary career and brilliant imagination, and has immortalised sensationalist romance-horror, much like the alluring vampiress herself. 128pp, new full price paperback.

Shamanism links us strongly to the Earth, the Heavens, everything around us and our own deeper layers. Through shamanic practice we can establish a connection that is beyond ourselves as we learn to journey, communicate with our guides, and receive guidance for ourselves to empower us. We open ourselves up to altered states of consciousness, which are liberating and healing and tap into abilities and resources from the world of spirit that go beyond the rational mind. The shaman is a doctor, medicine man or woman, social worker and priest or priestess in the community, highly revered and respected as they carry a position of great responsibility. They have the ability to enter trance states and travel within the spirit realms to find information or assistance from spirit helpers to solve problems within the community, to provide healing for the sick, and to assist with escorting lost souls of the dead to the afterlife. Historically alliances with spirits would be made to bring forth rain and help crops grow, and give information on where to find herds of animals. Shamans also presided over rites of passage such as birth, death, marriage and coming of age ceremonies. The contents of this beautiful gift edition with gilt embossed cover include The World Tree, Tools, Skills and Ceremony, Power Animals, Angels and Celestial Realms, Empowering Places and Death and Ancestors. Beautifully decorated with full page artworks, symbols and dotted with exercises for meditation and humming and more. New full price publication.

Rattle of Bones, The Horror from the Mound, Skull-Face, Graveyard Rats, Wolfshead, The Thing on the Roof, Sea Curse, The Cairn of the Headland, The Fearsome Touch of Death and Dig Me No Grave are among the 17 Gothic short stories in this collection. Ranging from horror to supernatural terrors and chilling tales of insanity and death, these stories reveal the extraordinary talent and range of one of short fiction's most accomplished writers. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was one of the founders of the sword and sorcery genre and an influential figure in fantasy fiction. He created a range of iconic characters including Conan the Barbarian, the sombre Solomon Kane and the loveable sailor Steve Costigan, yet he was an accomplished horror writer and close confidante of H. P. Lovecraft and his stories have enthralled and chilled readers for generations. Much of his childhood was spent travelling through the small towns of Texas and absorbing the culture of a growing society. Here is a disconcerting werewolf tale, the Wild West to Medieval France and to the fantastical setting of Hyperborea and other fantasy landscapes. 382pp in new full price paperback.

'He has great gifts as a psychologist and excellent insight into the Continental mind.' In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation in 1935 and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. His popular autobiography was filled with name dropping of minor European royalty and Hollywood moguls. Based on the widely-held belief that Hitler's every action was guided by his horoscope, de Wohl claimed he could reveal precisely what advice the Fuhrer's astrologers were giving him. Rather than being dismissed out of hand as a crank, Churchill could see de Wohl's worth for himself. He was subsequently made an army captain and quartered in the Grosvenor House Hotel, from where he passed detailed astrological readings to the War Office and Naval Intelligence, before being transferred to work for the SOE in the United States. Was it possible that senior military and naval intelligence officers could take the ancient and arcane practice of astrology seriously? Was de Wohl genuine or merely a charlatan and imposter? When he began his involvement with MI5 in 1938 and British Intelligence in 1940 he was already a successful practising astrologer to London's 'great and good.' James Parris examines the evidence, including recently released files, and reaches remarkable conclusions about this bizarre aspect of the war. Archive photos, 288 pages.

Chapters include the Prophets of Yahweh, Bruno and the Rosicrucian Witch-hunt, John Dee, magic, Kabbala and alchemy, and questions whether Nostradamus was genuine or a fraud. The ability to see into the future and to accurately predict events has fascinated and yet frightened man for thousands of years. As far back as 4000 BC, the Sumerians consulted sages who would pronounce on important matters and advise on courses of action. In this riveting, illustrated account, the predictions of the most famous sages and seers from the dawn of civilisation are looked at in detail. One of the best known of these visionaries was Nostradamus, and indeed his prophecies, in the form of the original cantos, are analysed in this book. Discover the prophecies that predicted: The French Revolution, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and The Iraq War. Nostradamus and Other Prophets and Seers examines the role of astrology, alchemy, and arcane knowledge in prophecy. It tries to answer that age-old question of whether there is such a thing as 'secret knowledge', and whether it is possible for mere mortals to access it. 300 page large well illustrated paperback.

Once an alternative doorway into radical culture, LSD is now being re-examined for its possible mental health benefits. Sub-titled 'Classic Selections from The Psychedelic Review, The Revolutionary 1960s Forum of Psychopharmacological Substances'. Half a century ago, the world changed forever when a Swiss chemist inadvertently ingested the experimental compound lysergic acid diethylamide. Many scientists expected LSD's radically psychoactive chemicals to revolutionise mainstream culture. The Psychedelic Review was founded in 1963 as a serious journal dedicated to the study of the potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelic substances. Presenting experts in the fields of anthropology, religion, pharmacology, poetry, and metaphysics, this pioneering journal had a dramatic impact on its times. Today, the benefits of LSD and other psychoactive drugs in treating depression, anxiety disorders, and PTSD have sparked renewed research. The Psychedelic Reader offers a relevant guidebook to the foundations of a bold new era in mental health studies. Luminaries such as Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Sir Julian Huxley, and Ralph Metzner contribute insights on a variety of fascinating and controversial subjects. From precise dosage guidelines to ruminations on the poetry of Herman Hesse, this powerful anthology presents the entire psychedelic spectrum with both the seriousness and open-mindedness it deserves. 256 page paperback.

Throughout the course of our history, a secret few have sought to acquire profound occult knowledge which reveals the inner truth of our existence. Discover the purpose of humanity as revealed by the Greek philosophers, the sophisticated techniques of alchemy, astrology, and magic as per practised by the Persians, the role of the Mystic scholar Marsilio Ficino in shaping the Renaissance, and how Learnt Magic informed the perceptions of famous scientists and inventors including Pythagoras, Paracelsus, Galileo, Copernicus and Newton, and the expression of the Mysteries through art and literature from Shakespeare and Milton to Blake and Kandinsky. From the Mystery cults of Ancient Greece to the Persian knowledge of astrology, we learn about the hidden messages in Renaissance art, the alchemy practices of Issac Newton and secret societies which passed on spiritual rites including the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Theosophists and the Golden Dawn. New light is shone on well-known historical figures and the part they played in the global quest for divine understanding including John Dee, Elizabeth I's magician, Aleister Crowley, the English occultist, poets William Blake and William Butler Yeats, and Dante and chapters including Christian rapture, speaking with angels and sublime rhyme. Engravings and line art. 224 page paperback.