In the 1950s, the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington created a book called The Milk of Dreams, filled with her drawings of chimeric, fanciful creatures—including a boy whose head becomes a house and ...

Interest in the occult has risen during the past decade, especially among young people. Seances are part of the trend. In a chamber beneath the Petit Ermitage Hotel in West Hollywood, 11 seekers ...