Writers and topics in Volume 9 of Darklore:

Robert Schoch celebrates the life and research of his good friend John Anthony West; Eric Wargo writes about alchemy and out-of-body experiences; John Reppion explores the occult side of modern music; Blair MacKenzie Blake introduces readers to Fortean trickster Gray Barker; Maria J Pérez Cuervo investigates the real history of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; Ray Grasse gives his first-hand account of the discovery of ‘The Lost Tomb of Osiris’; Kelvin Long prompts us to think about how we could transmit a message to the survivors of a future apocalypse; Mike Jay looks back on one of the first recorded accounts of ‘mind control’; Greg Taylor asks whether meteorites were the first gods of humanity; Neil Rushton delves into faery metaphysics; and Jeff Nisbet offers a solution to the mystery of the carved stone balls of Scotland