Böcker av Louis Proud

Thirty-seven-year-old writer Chuck Valentine is a man in crisis. Recently divorced and troubled by the demands of single fatherhood, he longs for love and the chance to rebuild his life. Figuring he has nothing to lose, he joins a local Pentecostal church, becoming well-acquainted with its eccentric community. His new Christian friends profess to know the truth to leading a happy life and are eager to try and "save" him. Yet Chuck soon learns that, among the faithful, all is not as it appears. As hope turns to disillusionment, he is forced to confront his troubled past and the existential despair that has long plagued his existence.

Society's concept of the natural world has little or no room for such phenomena as spontaneous human combustion, poltergeistry and anomalous lights. Rather, these weird and baffling occurrences are either ignored altogether or unfairly and inaccurately labelled "supernatural" and hence assumed to exist "beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature." In Borderland Phenomena: Volume One, Proud adopts a richer, broader concept of the natural world, one that views paranormal phenomena not as foreign or magical but as occupying a position on the margins of this reality, in what he refers to as the "borderland." In a balanced and objective investigation that spans many topics, including ball lightning, earth lights, strange rains, mysterious fires, and jinn, he manages to lay bare a refreshing and innovative approach to looking at the paranormal and so too the natural world.