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Mitch Horowitz

Historian, PEN Award-winning Author

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. 

Mitch is the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America, One Simple IdeaThe Miracle ClubDaydream BelieverUncertain PlacesModern Occultism, and the forthcoming Happy WarriorsThe Washington Post says Mitch “treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today’s raised-voice discussions.” Filmmaker Magazine calls him “a genius at distilling down esoteric concepts.”

Mitch hosts Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction, SpectreVision’s podcast, Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real, and plays himself in Shudder’s V/H/S/BEYOND.

A former vice president at Penguin Random House, Mitch has written on alternative spirituality for The New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalThe Washington PostTimePolitico, and a wide range of zines and scholarly journals. Mitch’s writing has called attention to the worldwide problem of violence against accused witches, helping draw notice to the human rights element of the issue. Mitch’s books have been translated into French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Portuguese. He is censored in China.