J.W. Ocker

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

500 issues! Ten years! Join us!

So small between the stars, so large against the sky

NYPL HQ today!

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

Trade House lookin’ festive. (Salem, MA)

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.

You can’t get away from cursed objects.

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

Headless Horseman real, yo.

Salem conflicted.

It looks like the palace of the Easter Bunny.

Everybody do the dinosaur.

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.

Skulls make good bricks.

Wanna see a giant mechanical hermit crab?

The mollusk that ate Marblehead.

Pumpkins blazin’.

Halloween so far.

Hangin’ w/ Hazel and Headles.

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

Happy Halloween, Squirrel.

Salem after dark.

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

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

Spooky nightcaps at the Hawthorne Hotel. Fears! 🍻

Don’t go in them there woods.

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...

He slimed me.

Ran into an old friend.

Headless horseman everywhere you go.