The Mysterious Fortune Teller

The animals of Fern Hollow get their fortunes told at the town festival.

Do your readers want to know about your future? Do they think someone can predict what will happen before it actually does? Since ancient times, people have gone to fortune-tellers, shamans, and seers to find out about their futures. People have tried tea leaves, tarot cards, crystal balls, and many other methods to predict the future, but do any of these actually work? Authors Carl R. Green and William R. Sanford investigate the mysterious art of fortune-telling and the paranormal and leave it up to the reader to decide if it is real or fantasy.

Do your readers want to know about your future? Do they think someone can predict what will happen before it actually does? Since ancient times, people have gone to fortune-tellers, shamans, and seers to find out about their futures. People have tried tea leaves, tarot cards, crystal balls, and many other methods to predict the future, but do any of these actually work? Authors Carl R. Green and William R. Sanford investigate the mysterious art of fortune-telling and the paranormal and leave it up to the reader to decide if it is real or fantasy.

For thousands of years, the fortune teller has been at the center of mystical prediction, a figurehead of divination unraveling the mysteries of the future. Now some of today's most imaginative authors gaze into their own crystal balls to foretell fates in these fantastic tales. With stories ranging from the humorous to the spine-tingling, this clairvoyant collection is sure to be a reading you'll never forget.

With a deck of cards, 80 illustrations, and the help of best-selling author Jonathan Dee, you can unlock the mysteries of the future. While Tarot decks are the best-known cards for divination, ordinary playing cards have been used successfully for hundreds of years to tell fortunes.

London, 2017. A long-dead ghost—nameless, all but formless, trapped beyond both the living and the afterlife—drifts through time in search of himself. What happened to him? To the love of his life? His memories slip away like the tide, tantalizingly close but always receding. His lost world of steam, family, and horrific tragedy comes to him in flickers and gasps. But decades—the steam age, the war years, the age of counterculture—soon melt and disappear, consumed by a strange, hungry world of electricity and isolation. As more of him slips away each day, this nameless ghost is shepherded by a fellow spirit, his sole companion in our foreign reality—a circus fortune teller tethered to him by a tragic history of her own. Eerie and atmospheric, The Hanged Man and the Fortune Teller unveils a mystery written in the gaps of memory. With insight and daring, Lucy Banks probes the deepest fears of our age on memory, mortality, and what it means to be human.