I haven't been working on The Collection these past couple of weeks, because I was 'sick' (I got a pill stuck in my throat and hacked and coughed for hours, which really wore me out), attended a convention, enjoyed the last warm-ish days for biking, and worked on reviving my personal website.

Urgh. I burped while swallowing my meds this morning, and one got caught in my throat and has been irritating it ever since. I've been coughing so much, my teeth hurt, and I just stayed in and slept from late afternoon until late evening.

New Hypnosis in Media post: Current Status of The Collection https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/2041/current-status-of-the-collection/ A timely update on where The Collection stands, and what else needs to get done.

New Hypnosis in Media post: “The Hypnotizing Spy Affair” https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/2025/the-hypnotizing-spy-affair/ The Spy Decade The 1960's was the Decade of the Spy. The first James Bond novel, "Casino

www.imdb.com/list/ls09993... Just posting this list: found it some time ago, and have been mining it to expand my want list for The Collection ever since.

Updated Hypnosis in Media page: Wishlist https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/support/wishlist/

I've been making progress on updating and improving my Hypnosis in Media blog site, setting up the caching system, culling the plugins and themes, and deleting old pages and rewriting others. I hope to start blogging there next week. www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog

Updated Hypnosis in Media post: “Suicide Squad: Kill Arkhan Asylum” #4 https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/1879/suicide-squad-kill-arkhan-asylum-4/ Take one stone-cold killer, four criminal mind controllers, and add a comedy relief villai

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3862562)

New Hypnosis in Media post: They Came From Hyde Brothers! https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/1956/they-came-from-hyde-brothers/ In my defense, I was left unsupervised, which is always a problem when I walk into a book store.

bsky.app/profile/pulp... "In the twilight sleep of hypnotism. she became a panting, lust-craved wanton." In other words, just about every over early MC Stories entry.

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3286673)

New Hypnosis in Media post: “Spellbound” by Maria Tatar https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/45/spellbound-maria-tatar/

This is a test of XPoster. https://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog (3896010)

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When I put this book into the catalog of The Collection, I decided to write about it. As it turned out, I already did. www.hypnosisinmedia.com/blog/8/favor... This was one of my first blog posts, so its understandable that I more-or-less forgot it.

“Love and Passion Under Hypnosis” (1956) by Walter Hale, published by Playgirl. “Are Helpless Girls Betrayed By Hypnotists?” “Stranger Than Bridey Murphy” This 48 page maza­gine promis­es a lot but does not deliv­er. The enclosed arti­cles on hyp­no­sis are pret­ty gener­ic, the pho­tog­ra­phy…

I have not been maintaining my Hypnosis in Media blog, and its developed a serious system error. It can still show the blog posts, but parts of the dashboard (like the plugin list) crash and halt, and the Pages other than the front page error out almost immediately. Not sure how to proceed.

I am looking over the books and stuff I want to write about, and some will need more indepth research and writing than what I would do here, so I am faced with dusting off my old blog. My last sporadic entries (with one exception) were from 2021.

Hey, look what I found! I was going through a binder in the bookcase, and found the one "Give Me One Evening" ads with the female hypnotist. Granted, its not a very good image, and not the best source: its probably from a comic book from the 1960s.

"Love and Passion Under Hypnosis" from Playgirl Magazine, circa 1956-1957 It promises a lot but does not deliver. The enclosed articles on hypnosis and purported pictures of hypnotized women are both pretty generic, and the layout and production is low quality.

"The Two Ronnies Sketchbook" (1978) My thanks to WTTW (PBS Chicago channel 11), who would show Doctor Who on Sunday night, preceeded by three British comedy shows: Monty Python, Dave Allen, and The Two Ronnies, and my parents, who got cable TV so they could watch the Cubs play on WGN (channel 9).

Ed Fitch "Castle of Deception" (1983) Part of (and maybe the only one of) the Llewellyn Magical Fantasy Series, this is a pagan-intense medieval fantasy, with the central character being a witch-warrior tasked with cleansing evil from a mystical site. It wasn't easy, and therein lies the tale.

Dunninger "What's On Your Mind?" (1944) Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) was a prominent stage magician / mentalist / hypnotist, creator of the "Hypno-Glasses", movie consultant, and debunker of fraudlent mediums, so I originally thought this was a compilation of stage mentalism routines. I was wrong.

I have a pile of books beside or behind me that I plan to discuss here, then figure out where to put them, since the bookcase is overloaded already. Fiction and non-fiction, new or old, tangential or direct, they all have something that should be mentioned.

IT. IS. DONE. I just finished the last shelf, so (almost) all of the non-fiction books in The Collection are listed in the catalog. Sub-totals: 331 fiction books 407 non-fiction books 67 comic collections 32 DVDs 121 RPGs 132 movies 110 TV episodes plus miscellaneous stuff Total: 1449 items

I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel (or maybe its just more dust and dust bunnies,) but I am down to the back half of the bottom shelf, and that will be end (so to speak) of cataloging the non-fiction books in The Collection, except for all the media reference books on movies and TV shows.

The 1960's was the Spy Era. From James Bond to The Avengers to Secret Agent, to Mission: Impossible and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. had the best merchanding: toys (I still have mine), games, novels, and one non-fiction book: "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s ABC of Espionage".

I just cataloged the fourth (of five) shelf of all the hypnosis non-fiction books. Total now is approximately 350. Last shelf will be *interesting*. I am also out of room for the fiction books, and I will have to figure out someplace to stick the overflow. I so would love a trance now.

Harry Arons published a lot of books, and a lot of revisions to his books. I have four copies of "(New) Master Course in Hypnotism", one of which may be the first hypno book I ever bought, when I was in my early teens, one that I had to hide from my parents when I bought it.

This was quite a find at the local used book store: the two volumes of "Library of Mesmerism" by William Fishbough from 1871, bound into a single hardcover volume. Very well preserved in the binding. "Rebound in acid-free materials, preserving original coverf art." (penciled note on fly leaf)

A couple of notes: there were a lot of different full page ads for hypnosis books during the 1950's and 60's. Some don't name the books, and they sometimes show a sort of generic cover, but I suspect some might have been cheap reprints of early 1900's (and out of copyright) hypnosis books.

"Successful Hypnotism" by Joan Brandon was another book on hypnosis I can identify from the front cover in one of these ads. Joan Brandon, herself, is a story in her own right. She was possibly the best known female stage hypnotist of her time, a decade before Pat Collins.

"How to Hypnotize" by Bradford Chambers. This was a common ad on the backs of 1950's and 1960's comics and magazines. (There were several such ads, but this is one where I can accurately determine the book being sold.) It is a slender book, only about 50 pages, 'photographically illustrated'.

Wilshire Book Company / Melvin Powers was a powerhouse of a publisher of self-help / self-improvement / hobbies books in the 1950's and 1960's. Their catalog of over 250 books had books on astrology, gambling, health, metaphysics, pets, self-help, and sports. And almost 30 books on hypnosis.

I also found a blogger who is also into this whole hypno and media thing: Cosmic Pancakes. Go check them out. I found them through Donald Hartman, researcher and editor, who published several Victorian hypno-related fiction collections. www.cosmic-pancakes.com

I just finished cataloging the third shelf (out of five).This was the 'catch-all' shelf, where I stuck all the books I didn't want to bother with sorting at the time. Over time, they accumulated, much like the stacks on the floor in front of the lower shelves. Re-arranging things will take time.

Just ordered a whole house / very large room air purifier. Lots of dust getting shifted around from the shelves of The Collection, I'm smelling dust constantly now.

"Mental Poisoning" by H. Spencer Lewis. The title sparked my interest, but it was the first chapter that got it added to The Collection: 'Hypnotism or Black Magic?' It is Volume XVII of the Rosicrucian Library, which also has books like "The Mystic Life of Jesus" and "Rosicrucian Manual."

"Wonders of the Mind: Truths About Hypnosis" by James Walters is a thin, self-published hardcover book. It is as much a personal and professional biography and accounts of past clients' results as it is a book on hypnosis what hypnosis can do for potential clients. And there is a story behind it.

Current totals: I have cataloged 245 non-fiction books in The Collection, with a quarter of one shelf and another two shelves to go.

Now that I am finally cataloging The Collection, I am struck by two things: 1) I have (not surprisingly) duplicates of some books, and 2) I have (surprisingly) very few duplicates. Must figure out something to do with the duplicates: I have an idea or two ...

Another strange entry: Тайна гипноза (The Secrets of Hypnosis) from 1995. 470 pages of densely packed Cyrillic text, all capitalized. I would love to get it translated. I picked it up from John King Books in Detroit, back when they actually had a 'hypnosis' section (its now sadly empty).

And I am still finding books that should have been filed elsewhere. Plus one that I was already looking for, yet didn't know I already possessed it.

This is also a shelf where I stuck a lot of random books, especially pamphlets, reprinted old books, and other such random items. The "woo-factor" is strong on this shelf. The bottom two shelves will be even dustier, definitely drier, but not as packed.

One more thing: this is getting into the lower shelves, which are *very* dusty, and I will be smelling dust and sneezing for maybe the rest of the night. It doesn't help that The Collection is in my bedroom, the largest room in the house, other than the front room.

I'm getting back to cataloging The Collection (and dealing with lots of dust) and I am up to the "H"s. That means J. Bernard Hutton's book "Women Spies" and the chapter 'Rita, an unusual Variety Artiste'. Rita was a Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950's with an unusual espionage method: hypnosis.

LLoyd In Space -- a short-lived D*sney cartoon about an alien kid in an alien high school, and another example that cartoons will eventually have a hypno/MC episode. In this case, its a story about an alien girl with hypnotic eyes, entitled 'Girl From the Cener of the Universe' (S02E01).

New season, same job(s), standing behind a camera for sports. Feet are so sore tonight: I have to get them used to standing for long periods again. Volleyball is tiring: only get 30 second breaks during time outs