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

Author: J. W. Ocker Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Travel, Paranormal Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781581573398 1581573391

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 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. Similar books: In Europe by Geert Mak A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston South with Endurance by Frank Hurley Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester Amsterdam by Russell Shorto Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress by Jan Morris Pax Britannica by Jan Morris The Discovery of France by Graham Robb Venice by Thomas F. Madden Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis Borderland by Anna Reid Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Goodnight, Mister Lenin by Tiziano Terzani Korea by Daniel Tudor The Big Roads by Earl Swift Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton