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. 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 more than a quarter 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. 25 b/w photographs
#2191946 in Books Walsworth Pub Co 2004-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 #File Name: 157864272864 pages
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