The Ten Best Occult Books of the Decade

Mitch Horowitz
4 min readDec 24, 2019

I define the occult as the exploration of unseen dimensions whose forces act upon us and through us — it is simply a study of extra-physicality and nonlocal intelligence. As a writer, reader, and publisher of occult literature, I offer up those titles that touched me as a seeker. Like every list, so much is missing — but these works and writers left an indelible mark on my search over the past decade.

Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China