Mitch Horowitz is one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. A PEN Award-winning historian, Mitch’s books include Occult America, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Modern Occultism, and Practical Magick. He has written on occult topics for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Time, among others, and maintains a popular Substack newsletter, Mystery Achievement. Mitch appears on many television shows, including as host of Discovery/HBO Max’s Alien Encounters. He plays himself in AMC-Shudder’s V/H/S/Beyond, a 2025 Critics’ Choice Award nominee for best movie made for television.
Mitch hosted, wrote, and produced the documentary The Kybalion, shot on location in Egypt and premiering as the No. 3 documentary on iTunes. Mitch is a former vice president and division editor-in-chief at Penguin Random House, where he published the work of David Lynch, Jacques Vallée, and Manly P. Hall. He wrote the first New Thought book, Awakened Mind, published in Saudi Arabia. His writing, translated into 15 languages, is censored in China.