![]() ![]() Ocker happens to be an Edgar Award-winning author, so readers are also treated (or maybe you were tricked, if you thought the book was just about Halloween) to a serious exploration of how a single historical event – the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 – ended up defining this once wealthy, cosmopolitan seaport. In addition to his love of all things weird and spooky, J.W. ![]() From the Haunted Happenings Grand Parade on October 1 to the final fireworks on Halloween, it would be thirty-one days of Halloween hoopla. Ocker moved his family to downtown Salem for the month of October to experience this witchtastic revelry with tours of historical sites, wax-heavy witch museums, and all manner of creepy cemeteries. Every October ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties (and witches, of course) indulge in month-long merriment in the town synonymous with American witchcraft: Salem, Massachusetts. ![]()
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