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

A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
Title A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts PDF eBook
Author J. W. Ocker
Publisher The Countryman Press
Pages 484
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1581575548

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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.

Twelve Nights at Rotter House

Twelve Nights at Rotter House
Title Twelve Nights at Rotter House PDF eBook
Author J.W. Ocker
Publisher Turner Publishing Company
Pages 190
Release 2019-10-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1684423708

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Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he’s carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country’s most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he’s finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day. When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough-patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That’s when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he’s writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that’s been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who’s haunting who?

Wicked Salem

Wicked Salem
Title Wicked Salem PDF eBook
Author Sam Baltrusis
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 265
Release 2019-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 1493037129

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It’s no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport’s history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. Originally called Naumkeag, Salem means “peace.” However, as its historical legacy dictates, the city was anything but peaceful during the late seventeenth century. Did the reputed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, strike in Salem? Evidence supports the possibility of a copy-cat murder. From the recently pinpointed gallows where innocents were hanged for witchcraft to the murder house on Essex Street where Capt. Joseph White was bludgeoned to death and then stabbed thirteen times in the heart, Sam Baltrusis explores the ghost lore and the people behind the tragic events that turned the “Witch City” into a hot spot that has become synonymous with witches, rakes, and rogues.

A Season with the Witch

A Season with the Witch
Title A Season with the Witch PDF eBook
Author J W Ocker
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1581573391

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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.

Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction

Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction
Title Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 712
Release 2003
Genre Children
ISBN

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Witch-Hunt

Witch-Hunt
Title Witch-Hunt PDF eBook
Author Marc Aronson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 288
Release 2005-08
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1416903151

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A look at the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century that claimed twenty-five lives and its impact on the community.

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials
Title Salem Witch Trials PDF eBook
Author Joeming Dunn
Publisher ABDO
Pages 34
Release 2008-09-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1616412410

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Massachusetts, 1692. The largest witch hunt in the United States was held in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts. Witness the accusations of witchcraft and trial that followed in this impressive graphic novel. Maps, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles an exciting addition to classroom discussion. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades 3-6.