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Officially a New Hampshirite Now
October 1, 2015 — Hey so today is a busy move-in day for me and mine for our month-long stint in Salem, Massachusetts, so I thought I’d direct you to some content I recently helped put together for New...
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Transylvania Transformer: The Dracula Spectacular Book
October 2, 2015 — That’s me. Sitting down with a good book.That’s right. That’s a book. I have my favorite books, the ones that changed my life, altered my worldview, made me both question the universe...
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Buns of Sable: The Burger King Halloween Whopper
October 3, 2015 — It was the first day of October. I was in Salem. And I was eating a Halloween Whopper. It’s like I went through the jack-o-lantern-shaped door, folks. We’ve gotten to the point of a...
View ArticlePhantasmic Fanfare: 2015 Haunted Happenings Parade, Salem, MA
October 4, 2015 — I mean, what other city on the planet throws a Halloween parade on October 1? But that's how Salem, Massachusetts, does the holiday...with Jack-o's blazing. This was my first Haunted...
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The Grave of Jack Skellington: Forest Hill Cemetery
October 5, 2015 — I know where Jack Skellington is buried. But I have no idea where to go from that sentence.I mean, look at the skull on that tombstone. That face. Those eyes. That grin....
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Board Games and Broomsticks: Which Witch?
October 6, 2015 — The box art got me. It was just a board game from 1970, but I wanted to be in that moment represented on its box. Hanging out with friends around a miniature haunted house while three...
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Trick-or-Treating the Web II: 25 More Links to Halloween 2015
October 9, 2015 — I know some of you sped through all 25 links of Part I of this year's Trick-or-Treating the Web and have been patiently waiting for me to stop posting original content and get to more...
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Spooning with Paul Clemens’s Beast Within
October 7, 2015 — I became friends with Paul Clemens because of Edgar Allan Poe. Paul’s a Poe collector and co-wrote Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight, a one-man stage play that was performed...
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Don’t Lose Your Bread: The Horseman Restaurant
I don't know why I have hate on my face in this photo.October 8, 2015 — I assume missing your head means that eating is—I’m just going to say it—off the table. And that’s too bad for the Headless...
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American History Hex: The Salem Time Machine
October 11, 2015 — There are a lot of ways to tell the fascinating story of Salem. The Salem Time Machine does it as a glow-in-the-dark 3D horror story.“It’s just a history of Salem. Wax figures and...
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Plots Among the Plots: Horror Movie Graveyards I Have Known
October 12, 2015 — Like people, graveyards become a lot cooler when they get cast in a movie. Especially a horror movie. And there are few things more right than a horror movie scene set in a...
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Salem at Night
October 13, 2015 — I have been in Salem for 13 October days. And by far, my favorite moments have been the nights.The nights, when the witch shops have closed down to at least the human visitors, the...
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Pee-Wee’s Big Halloween Adventure
October 14, 2015 — Remember the Pee-Wee Herman Halloween movie? No? I’m sure you saw it. Came out in 1985, involved a stolen bike and a road trip, just turned 30 this year…what? Right, Pee-Wee’s Big...
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Halloween III: Season of Our Discontent
October 16, 2015 — I look forward to this night every year. The night where I introduce my younger and less-horror-inclined wife to an 80s horror movie and then interrogate her about the experience....
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Salem at Random
Can't even get a slice of pizza here without this happening.October 17, 2015 — By this time in the season, you know I’m deep in the cauldrons of Salem, and they are bubbling for sure. I haven’t been...
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Requiem for "The Good Son" Well
October 19, 2015 — If I ever put together a list of my favorite cemeteries in New England, I’m pretty sure Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Massachusetts, will be inked on it. So I was jazzed when I...
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A Plague of Zombies in a City of Witches
October 20, 2015 — I was standing in line with a bunch monsters, waiting to see more monsters, when a parade of monsters went by. Salem. I’d never witnessed a zombie walk firsthand before. And while...
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Scream-ing into the Horror Genre: How I Became a Horror Movie Fan
October 21, 2015 — I liked monsters as a young child. Just did. And that fondness mostly incarnated itself in the toys I played with—Rubber Uglies, Krusher, Chewbacca. So this post should be the...
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Which Way to Witch City?
October 24, 2015—They call Salem "Witch City." After 24 days here, I still haven't figure out why.'
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Salem at Random II
October 25, 2015 — In Salem in October, every spot is spooky, every detail deathly, eery corner is creepy, every window weird. And the people, well the people are the scariest of it all. Leaving your...
View ArticleSalem's October Crowds
October 29, 2015 — On Saturday, October 24, I braved the October Salem crowds with a camera and a high level of embarrassment over it. Come with me as I escort you through the two most popular areas...
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Happy Halloween 2015…Three Days Late
I was supposed to be Vincent Price from The Tomb of Ligeia.But then my wife went as a ghost bride, coopting me into her groomin the process. Sneaky way to get a couple's costume.November 3, 2015 — I...
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Main Street Merry: The Nashua Holiday Stroll
November 28, 2015 — I haven’t been out oddity hunting at all since returning from Salem, Massachusetts, nor have I posted any original content on OTIS. The Salem book is just taking over all my free...
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Happy New Weird 2: The 2015 State of the OTIS
December 31, 2015 — So I’m a little bit embarrassed. A year ago to the day, I was sitting in a cabin on the water in Maine, kicking dirt all over OTIS. And it made me write this post. Now, everything I...
View ArticleWelcome to OTIS
OTIS is a chronicle of my visits to the unusual—oddities of art, nature, history, and culture—as well as my life between the oddities. Currently, I'm heads-down at work on my Salem book, so you'll...
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