J.W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of spooky travelogues, kid's books, and novels, including Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, A Season with the Witch, and Death and Douglas. Ocker's work has appeared in The Boston Globe, CNN, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Rue Morgue, and other places people stick writing. He's from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for a decade.