Neil Nixon

There are mysteries we don't understand, mysteries created to entertain us, and life problems we struggle with, that remain mysterious. Few people take the time to stop and think of the value of mystery, as a thing in itself. Neil Nixon and E K Knight take us on a tour of all things mysterious revealing a rich and varied subject offering powers we can all use and a history that is by turns insightful, frightening, and hilarious. From UFOs to stand-up comedy and from the history of religion to a psychological condition where sufferers experience themselves as being dead, this is a unique reading journey and a book full of revelations you'll want to share.

This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt to the truly bizarre, offers insights into the strongest evidence that we are being visited by beings from another world and sources the best sceptical arguments that it can all be explained rationally. Concise, balanced and - occasionally - hilarious this is a story that has as much to tell you about the human race as it does about aliens.

What if...Satan was real in the way we are all real? Had his own place, enjoyed a drink, some company and his favourite sounds? What if he had his own jukebox stocked with 100 slammin' sound files and we all dropped by one night to see his current selection? This book is the best guess of what we might find on The Devil's Jukebox. There's fun, torture, surprises and enough in the way of the well-known and utterly obscure to get anyone with any opinion on music's dark side arguing, Googling and acquiring. We wouldn't recommend reading the pages inside this cover if you're easily offended, or sensitive to sudden shocks. For everyone else this is a searing spotlight on the hot, hateful, horrible and occasionally humorous hits from Hell. A world in which utter abnormality will snag you the #1 spot and every barrel is lovingly scraped for the festering remnants of the sounds the righteous rejected long ago. From the darkest metal to the most deranged samples they're here, along with several surprises by way of a few kiddie-friendly sounds subsequently used in ways their creators never imagined some misguided attempts at recording hits.The Devil's jukebox is a jukebox like no other.