Last year in these pages, Marilyn Stasio called this a "mesmerizing series . . . informed by Western legend, steeped in Indian superstition."

Certainly Gould did; it is central to his special appeal, which is casting its spell anew on a mesmerizing series of videos from Sony Classical.

Common has already scored a hip-hop hit with the album's lead single, "The Corner," which has a heavy, loping backbeat and a mesmerizing series of rambling rhymes.

Also starring Cherry Jones and the superb Ian McDiarmid, this mesmerizing series of monologues has been directed with poetic starkness by Jonathan Kent (2:35).

Affectlessness is the bedrock of Mr. Maxwell's sensibility, which he has deployed in a mesmerizing series of short plays in which all the world seems to be less a stage than a catatonic ward.

Gabriel Du Pre, the Montana lawman featured in NOTCHES (St. Martin's, $20.95) and earlier books in this mesmerizing series, tracks down two serial killers who have murdered and mutilated hundreds, possibly thousands, of young women over a 20-year period.