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# Read * A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts by J. W. Ocker ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts Bell, Book, Candle, and Ocker Carl Boehm At first I thought this would be a fitting addition to the Halloween shelf of tomes by Bradbury, King, and Lovecraft. Upon receiving an advanced copy courtesy of a Patreon reward, I read through the text and found the book to be one of the most brilliantly planned examination of a time and plac. Love it Mary Packard I'm not even done reading yet (just received it today), but I can already tell this is going to be an awesome read. Love the topic, love the
| Title | : | A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1581573391 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
Bell, Book, Candle, and Ocker Carl Boehm At first I thought this would be a fitting addition to the Halloween shelf of tomes by Bradbury, King, and Lovecraft. Upon receiving an advanced copy courtesy of a Patreon reward, I read through the text and found the book to be one of the most brilliantly planned examination of a time and plac. Love it Mary Packard I'm not even done reading yet (just received it today), but I can already tell this is going to be an awesome read. Love the topic, love the author!. A Must Read On Salem Tori I am not exaggerating when I say that J.W. Ocker's A Season With the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, made me immediately look at travel websites to see if I could afford a trip out. Ocker's book is part travelogue, part pop culture roadmap, and part local biogr
25 b/w photographs. Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. But Salem is a seasonal townand its season happens to be Halloween. A single event in its 400 years of historythe Salem Witch Trials of 1692transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award-winning writer J.W. Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to more than a quarter million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. In between, he interviews its leaders and citizens, its entrepreneurs and visitors, its street performers and Wiccans, its psychics and critics, creating a picture of this unique place and the people who revel in, or merely weather, its witchiness
His work has appeared in Rue Morgue Magazine, The Boston Globe, CNN, The Atlantic, and other places people stick writing. His first two books, The New England Grimpendium and The New York Grimpendium are personal travelogues of his visits to deathly sites in those regions. Both won Lowell Thomas Awards
Ocker devotes whole chapters to real witches, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and TV shows and movies set in Salem. Armchair travelers will enjoy the trip.” (Booklist)“An entertaining and historical guide to the varied sites of Salem, with Ocker interviewing everyone from the mayor to local archivists to men in scary costumes, covering burial sites of witch trial judges, and perhaps the most awesome Halloween street party ever described in print, with Ocker’s good humor and touch of sarcasm marking his readable style.” (Library Journal) . “A lively chroniclepart travel guide, part history lesson…Ocker moves easily among the archivists, historians, and performers he interviews, and he describes the carnival atmosphere that descends upon “Witch City” with enthusiasm and vividness.” (Publisher's Weekly (starred review))“What better place to celebrate Halloween than Salem, Massachusetts? Festi
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