Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award–winning historian, former Penguin Random House VP, and one of today’s most literate voices on occultism, mysticism, and the unexplained. His bylines include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, and The Wall Street Journal, with appearances on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, NPR, and major docuseries and films. He hosts Discovery/HBO Max’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction and appears in Shudder’s V/H/S/BEYOND. His books include Occult America, One Simple Idea, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Uncertain Places, Modern Occultism, and Practical Magick. Horowitz’s work illuminates outsider history, explores alternative spirituality, and bridges scholarship, journalism, and subculture.