The Terror That Comes in the Night by David J. Hufford

Hufford's current research is focused on extraordinary spiritual experiences. The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780812213058) by David J Hufford. Hufford is a founding member of the Editorial Boards of several journals including the the new journals Spirituality in Clinical Practice, and Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, and a founding member of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Caner Institute (NIH, Bethesda).

His book The Terror That Comes in the Night, which reports his research on beliefs about spiritual evil found all over the world and their relationship to sleep paralysis, was recently translated into Japanese and Korean. Hufford's publications have primarily been concerned with spiritual belief and experience, and spirituality and health. He is now University Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Psychiatry at Penn State, and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007, after 33 years on the faculty of Penn State College of Medicine, Hufford retired from his position as University Professor and Chair of Medical Humanities, and Professor of Neural & Behavioral Science, and Family & Community Medicine. David Hufford, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow in Spirituality at the Samueli Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. David Huffords work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake).

The Terror That Comes in the Night by David J. Hufford