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Posts by J.W. Ocker

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Another cover unveil! You can’t reason with a headless man. #headlesshorseman #sleepyhollow #Halloween #nonfiction

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The cover art for my latest book, DON’T GO THERE. Up for preorder. #nonfiction #travel #spooky

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500 issues! Ten years! Join us!

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So small between the stars, so large against the sky

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NYPL HQ today!

(and, FYI, she’s not taller than me, she’s standing on the steps).

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Trade House lookin’ festive. (Salem, MA)

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Boooooook announcement! Been wanting to do this project for a decade, and the time is finally right. Now you know why you-know-who has been galloping across my feeds so much lately.

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You can’t get away from cursed objects.

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Screw bread. (Maitland Farm, Salem, MA).

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Headless Horseman real, yo.

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Salem conflicted.

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It looks like the palace of the Easter Bunny.

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Everybody do the dinosaur.

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Haven’t talked book stuff in a bit, but I’ve got a few announcements soon. Meanwhile, enjoy this atmospheric illustration by the talented Adam Parata for my upcoming nonfic DON’T GO THERE.

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Skulls make good bricks.

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Wanna see a giant mechanical hermit crab?

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The mollusk that ate Marblehead.

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Pumpkins blazin’.

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Halloween so far.

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Hangin’ w/ Hazel and Headles.

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If your fiends don’t dance, they’re no fiends of mine.

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Happy Halloween, Squirrel.

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Salem after dark.

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I haven’t dig into Oggie before, unfortunately. He got knocked off the list by some better-documented monsters. Ha.

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Waiting for the Tarrytown Halloween Parade. Which I’m hoping is just 200 Headless Horseman chasing a single Ichabod Crane.

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Spooky nightcaps at the Hawthorne Hotel. Fears! 🍻

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Don’t go in them there woods.

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You know Salem. But these off-the-beaten-path New England spots also offer spooky, scary, and weird. - The Boston Globe From ‘vampire’ graves and a UFO abduction to eerie ruins and cursed forests, these spots can make for a spooky fall adventure.

Nice shout-out to my work in the Boston Globe. Love that the road to creepy New England swings by me. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/l...

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He slimed me.

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Ran into an old friend.

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