A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in

A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

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 historyâ€”the Salem Witch Trials of 1692â€”transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal townâ€”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 Awardâ€“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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Countryman Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
Format Kindle eBook

A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts