3.5
A Season with the Witch
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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.Download the free Fable app
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3.5
“This book is very niche. As someone who lives near Salem and knows people who have lived and worked in Salem (some who were interviewed in the book) and it captures the strange vibe of Salem a city that is very strong around Halloween.
The writer asks the correct questions and approaches the subject with the mentality of exploration and open mindedness not judging too much but also still respecting the history.
There are times that the book can be a slog though as the chapters are kind of long and it’s apparent that traditional travel writing isnt the authors strength ( keep in mind I have recently read Mark Twain who is known for his travel writing so it is unfair to compare)
I enjoyed the read but this is mostly because I’m so connected to the subject matter and not completely sure how it translates to others and it is a tad dated at this point as Salem has changed a little throughout the decade though the city is kind of perpetually stuck in the 90s in a way that’s hard to explain if one hasnt been there so a lot is still relevant”
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