Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz (born November 23, 1965) is an American author, publisher, speaker, podcaster, and television host specializing in occult and esoteric themes. A frequent writer and speaker on religion and metaphysics in print and on television, radio, and online, Horowitz's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN.com, and he has appeared on NPR, CBS News, NBC News, and Vice News. In 2024, Horowitz began hosting the UFO-themed Discovery/HBO Max TV series, Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction, and joined Elijah Wood's podcast network, SpectreVision Radio, where he hosts a historical podcast, Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real, which explores the background and data of extrasensory perception (ESP) research. Horowitz plays himself as a historian and commentator in V/H/S/Beyond, the seventh entry in the horror anthology series on Shudder, which a reviewer for RogerEbert.com described as "one of the better V/H/S anthologies of late;" the film was nominated for Best Movie Made for Television at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards. He appears in the 2025 MGM+ docuseries Let the Devil In. Horowitz is the former editor-in-chief of TarcherPerigee and a former vice-president at Penguin Random House. His best-known works are Occult America (2009), The Miracle Club (2018), and Modern Occultism (2023). In 2022, author and self-titled "magic experience designer" Ferdinando Buscema writing for Boing Boing noted that "Horowitz is among the most articulate and respected voices in the contemporary occulture scene." In 2025, he published a book of magick, history, and occult spirituality titled Practical Magick. Also in 2025, Horowitz began writing a newsletter for Substack, "Mystery Achievement," focused on occultism in history and practice.