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An independent bookshop which specialises in horror, fantasy, folklore and the occult is trying to raise £20,000 to save it from closing.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Its beginnings came not from the world of the occult but that of upper-class entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Almost all exorcists, at the urging of the Vatican, keep their identities secret, their role in battling the occult known only to the other priests in their diocese.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

“Ready or Not 2” and “They Will Kill You” took one last swing at the well-worn eat-the-rich occult subgenre.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

“I checked the occult bookstores, the spooky carnivals, the abandoned cemeteries, and all the obscure and little-trafficked corners of the city. Nothing!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Moon passes in front of the Pleiades, and occults them successively, it is hard to believe one's eyes.

From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)

This is very strikingly shown when the Moon, in its monthly progress among the stars, passes before one of them and occults it.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

The sun, of course, occults planets and stars in exactly the same manner as the moon does, but we cannot see these occultations on account of the blaze of sunlight.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius

The movie’s details and themes remain theoretical, a blurred thesis about crime and punishment, about incarceration and isolation, about the occulted oppressions and subjections on which society depends.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2019

Stern and his colleagues chased 2014 MU69 on land and through the air last summer as it occulted, or passed in front of, three background stars.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2017

Extended Data Figure 2: The occulted star spectrum and model.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014

Astronomers discovered the atmosphere in 1988, when Pluto occulted another star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2013

And though the solution to this mystery was, to my young mind, occulted, yet did 1 know where it lay: behind the forbidden door.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

This occurs when its orbit passes on the line of sight between the Earth and the star, partially occulting the star -- causing a decrease in its brightness that can be observed and quantified.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

Then from spectra we might pass by an easy step to equivalent signals of long and short flashes in various combinations, also made by occulting the light.

From A Trip to Venus by Munro, John

They ought not all to be occulting lights.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

The variable in the Head of Medusa is the exemplar of a class including 26 recognised members, all of which doubtless represent occulting combinations of stars.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Out she goes, turning broadside on, a shadow sprinkled with stars, then makes slow way down stream, a travelling constellation occulting one after another all the fixed lights.

From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)