Paranormal Fiction

Paranormal Fiction is often described as Fantasy or Occult Fiction. The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the 'knowledge of the secret' or 'knowledge of the hidden' and often meaning 'knowledge of the supernatural', as opposed to 'knowledge of the visible' or 'knowledge of the measurable', usually referred to as science.

The modern term's meaning is often imprecisely translated and used as a term for 'secret knowledge' or 'hidden knowledge', in the sense of meaning 'knowledge meant only for certain people' or 'knowledge that must be kept hidden'. For most practicing occultists, however, it is simply the study of a deeper spiritual reality that cannot be understood using pure reason or material science.

Paranormal Fiction also incorporates into its plots scientifically unexplainable phenomena such as Big Foot, Ghosts & Hauntings, Crop Circles, Loch Ness etc.