A Season with the Witch
A Season with the Witch by J W Ocker, published by National Geographic Books on October 4, 2016, is a 240-page exploration of Salem, Massachusetts, a city renowned for its historical significance and eerie allure. The author, an Edgar Award-winning travel writer, immerses himself in Salem’s unique atmosphere during the Halloween season, a time when the town’s population swells with visitors drawn to its spooky reputation.
In this edition, readers will discover Ocker’s firsthand experiences as he navigates Salem’s historical sites and macabre attractions. The book presents a blend of interviews with local residents, entrepreneurs, and visitors, offering insights into the diverse perspectives surrounding the city’s witch-related culture. With themes of occultism and the interplay between history and modern tourism, A Season with the Witch provides a detailed account of a place where the past and present converge in a celebration of the supernatural.
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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America’s spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history—the Salem Witch Trials of 1692—transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town—and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. 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. 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.
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