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FICTITIOUS NEWS!
Ray Buckland loves to write and although he is best known for non-fiction, he actually prefers to write fiction.
Ray has completed a lengthy fantasy novel of the Tolkien genre. It's called THE TORQUE of KERNOW and is the first of a series of books about The Chronicles of Kernow. IT IS NOW AVAILABLE and is the first of the new Imprint of Buckland Books at Galde Press. Order it now from www.chroniclesofkernow.com or from orders@galdepress.com. . . and . . .contact Galde Press.

Keep an eye on the specially-created web site: www.chroniclesofkernow.com

NOTE: There is an interview with Ray, about The Torque of Kernow, on www.paganpages.org There is also a similar, though different, interview at SFX, a science-fiction and fantasy web site: www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=author_interview_raymond_buckland

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Two of Ray's novels are currently available (from Galde Press - as advertised in FATE magazine): The Committee and Cardinal's Sin. Sometime soon (we hope!) another three novels will also become available (also from Galde Press . . . ask/email about them). One is a young adult novel . . . The Liberty Squadron. It is a World War Two adventure story. The second is also WWII and is called Churchill's Secret Spy, based on a true story. The third is called Atomic Sunrise and is loosely based on WWII, being a "what if?" type of story.

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Listen to Ray and watch him on You Tube

You can see two great interviews with Ray.
The first was made at the October 2007 Universal Light Expo, in Columbus, OH: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2w1Cuo0kngQ
The second You Tube interview is from Denver INATS West 2008 and can be seen at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=skuNxbKRGok
There is also a brief segment that includes Ray at an historic signing taking place in Louisiana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KvrSlKKAug
The latest radio show is the one from the "Black Cat Lounge", hosted by Rev. Tim Shaw. You can hear the whole one hour show at http://blackcatlounge.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2009-03-09T20_16_16-07_00



And if you go to www.knickerbockerlinesville.com you can listen to a half-hour radio interview Ray did from The Knickerbocker Hotel on May 17, 2008.
This May 23 (2009) Ray did another interview program at the Knickerbocker, this time with Rev. Jane as interviewer. Check out her web site at www.revjane.net


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BROOMSTIX and other Web Interviews!

Something that should have been done some time ago is to give the link to BROOMSTIX, the excellent pagan/Wicca magazine for young folks. In a back issue, #5, is an interview with Ray: http://www.broomstix.com/5%202007%20Summer%20Solstice/SS07MagicalLives.htm

Check it out.

Also check out a new interview at Cyber Witchcraft.com See it at
http://www.cyberwitchcraft.com/raymond-buckland.html

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Raymond Buckland
Taken at the Victorian Seance
in Lily Dale, NY, 2008 and 2009

VICTORIAN SEANCE (Lily Dale)
The Victorian Séances have all gone extremely well. All the Mediums (nineteen of them) are dressed in Victorian garb, as are the majority of the sitters. Ray's Planchette Séance is popular and greatly appreciated by the sitters. Greg Ford of Fordo Productions takes Victorian-style photographs throughout the weekends. Photos of Ray, from 2008 and 2009, are shown above.

Check-out http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/505737.html?nav=5004

Tickets for the Victorian Seance go on sale in February each year, through the Lily Dale Assembly, and are snapped up very quickly.


*** BACK IN PRINT DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
There have been a lot of enquiries about Ray's tarot deck, the
BUCKLAND ROMANI TAROT KIT. Although this popular deck-and-book was out of print for a while, it is now available again - expanded, with a new Introduction . . . by a new publisher, Galde Press.
*** YOU CAN ORDER NOW FROM GALDE PRESS - Contact:
orders@galdepress.com
ISBN: 978-1-931942-62-1
Size: Book - 6 x 9, 240 pgs. • Deck - 78 cards
Price: $34.95 (postage $5.00)

Another book back in print (first published in 1974) is HERE IS THE OCCULT. One or two copies of the original have shown up on the Internet at prices as high as $200. Now you can order yours. Available now from Amazon.com,  Abebooks.com, BookSurge.com, and Alibris.com   See "Recent Books" for details.

BRAND NEW BOOKS
-- Ray's new book The Weiser Field Guide to GHOSTS - Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend, published by Red Wheel/Weiser.  See "Recent Books".
Also:  Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic  is now available. See full details at   http://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?session=3d367504fc865ef7491f6b2b770c9b74&id=9781578634675

BOOK and SPIRIT BOARD - Ray's book on the Talking Board, OUIJA - "Yes! Yes!" is now available. It is marketed by Doorway Publications & Gifts together with Ray's new design BUCKLAND SPIRIT BOARD; a professional talking board that comes with a solid wood planchette. Buy them both together and save.

Additionally, Ray has just finished a small book which is the first of a series of about a dozen. These have the titles Buckland Doorway to . . . These will be covering such things as Tarot, Scrying, Healing, Meditation, Psychic Protection, etc. The first one is now available and is Buckland Doorway to Candle Magic. Price is $12.95, post included. Order from Buckland Books, P.O. Box 892, Wooster, OH 44691-0892

COVER GUY Issue #46 of PanGaia magazine has a great photo of Ray on the cover and an inside featured interview with him. Don't miss it.

One of Ray's main Spiritualist works: THE SPIRIT BOOK: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLAIRVOYANCE, CHANNELING AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATION (Visible Ink Press). With 500 entries and 100 illustrations rich with details that will fascinate and astonish, this book includes accounts of ghosts and hauntings, levitation and trances, astral projection, psychic surgery, self-painting portraits, crystal gazing, predictions, and poltergeists, Mediums, clairvoyants, telepaths, and other well-known people connected to the field worldwide are profiled, as are notorious fakes and frauds. Spirit beliefs among the famous, including Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Mae West, are examined. This is a fascinating book! FATE Magazine, July 2005, carried an excerpt from The Spirit Book in the form of an article: "The Mediumship of the Eddy Brothers: Horatio and William." NOTE: The October 31, 2005, edition of PEOPLE Magazine carried a (brief) review of THE SPIRIT BOOK (page 56).

IN THE WORKS Also, due to frequent requests, Raymond is currently working on his autobiography. He has been blessed with a long, varied, and successful career (spanning over a half century) and throughout this time he has witnessed - and had a hand in - the emergence of Wicca as a major religious force. This book is sure to find a place on the history shelves and will be an eye-opener to younger generations of Witches. It will also correct the erroneous information that is given on some web sites and in some books.

A NEW BOOK, Domino Divination, is soon to be published, along with a new edition of Ray's book on Color Magic.   Watch for announcements of their becoming available.

Ray's first Victorian Mystery novel is also in the works and will soon be available: GOLDEN ILLUMINATI.  Set in London in 1899 it deals with the Golden Dawn and the Illuminati!  

The John Carney Show was on CBS Radio KMOX (1120), St. Louis, IL, at 11:10pm on Sept. 10.  You can still listen to this at http://www.kmox.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType:Episode&audioId=4013322

UPCOMING APPEARANCES 

 
September 30, 2010 - www.bbsradio Ray will be on for an hour with Donna Seebo at  http://www.delphiinternational.com/VisionBroadcasting/VisionBroadcasting.html
 
October  14-17, 2010 - Bouchercon, Hyatt-Regency, San Francisco.  Ray will be at the famous mystery-writers' convention in San Francisco.
 
November 6, 2010 - Ray will be signing his books at the Buckeye Book Fair, Fisher Auditorium, OARDC/OSU Campus, Wooster, OH   9:30am-4:00pm
 

FOREIGN EDITIONS Raymond's books have been translated into seventeen foreign languages. We recently came across copies of some of these and offer them, hopefully giving people in countries other than the U.S. a chance to get Ray's books in their own language and signed by him.

Note: There was Russian edition of the Buckland Romani Tarot Cards produced without permission. We have been unable to contact the publisher. Ray would love to have a copy of that edition (it was produced in a smaller size than most tarot decks - about the size of a regular poker deck). If you have one or know of one, please get in touch with Ray at raymond@raybuckland.com Many thanks.

BEWARE THE BLOG (AND "MY SPACE")! It came to our attention that someone had placed a blog on the Internet, at http://www.myspace.com/raymondbuckland This was completely unauthorized; it was not Ray himself but someone presuming to speak for him without his knowledge!

More recently a "Tribute to Raymond Buckland" has appeared on www.myspace.com/raymondbuckland Similarly, this was not put there by Ray but by someone else, "in tribute" to him, so be aware that if you think you are one of Ray's "Friends" . . . in fact he knows nothing about it! Much as Ray would enjoy doing a "blog" he doesn't have the time to do one. If he should, anytime in the future, then it will be announced here. Many thanks.

WITCHCRAFT DVD Don't miss this fabulous new release of his original video (but now in DVD format) titled Witchcraft: Rebirth of the Old Religion. It features an extra hour (total of two hours) of material, including "music videos", blooper reel, commentaries on the changes to Wicca since the first release, current interview with Raymond and "behind-the-scenes extras" footage.

RAYMOND BUCKLAND LIBRARY . . . Do, please, check out http://www.doorwaypublications.com/bucklandlibrary.html

 
 
 

This site was last updated on: August 30, 2010

You can contact Ray at raymond@raybuckland.com, or just click on the link below.