Bio

J.W. Ocker is an award-winning writer currently living in Nashua, NH. He has a B.A. in English from Clearwater Christian College in Clearwater, FL, and a Master’s in Liberal Arts from the Great Books Program of St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. He is the author of The New England Grimpendium and the creator and curator of the website O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I’ve Seen (OddThingsIveSeen.com), where he chronicles his visits to various oddities of culture, art, nature, and history. Some of his stranger travels have appeared in such places as CNN.com, Atlas Obscura, io9, and Rue Morgue magazine. He is currently at work on a New York sequel to his New England Grimpendium.

WORKS
The New England Grimpendium (September 2010)

I09.com: International Cryptozoology Museum Photo Essay (September 2010)

Atlas Obscura Guest Blooger: Grim New England, Parts I-III (September 2010)









 Rue Morgue Magazine

Travelogue of Terror: Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead filming locations in PA (Issue 84)

Travelogue of Terror: Sleepy Hollow, NY (Issue 87)
Travelogue of Terror: Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery in Salem, MA (Issue 91)

Front Page CNN.com (April 2009)

Blood Cemetery in Hollis, NH (Video)


American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (2008)

Page 71: The Horror of the Exorcist: Its Presentation and Confrontation


The College (Spring 2009)

Page 48: Everyday Wonders in a Commuter Landscape

Studies in Australian Weird Fiction, Volume 3 (2009)

Page 67: Yeah, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Beth: Murdering the Muse in Nick Cave's "And the Ass Saw the Angel"


Shriek Freak Quarterly (July 2009)

Page 22: Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery: Salem's Only Monster Museum

Chimeraworld #6 (October 2009)

Page 153: Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Fiction)