Markus Ocker Libros

Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history—the Salem Witch Trials of 1692—transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town—and its season happens to be Halloween. Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award–winning writer J.W. Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. In between, he interviews its leaders and citizens, its entrepreneurs and visitors, its street performers and Wiccans, its psychics and critics, creating a picture of this unique place and the people who revel in, or merely weather, its witchiness.

Douglas has grown up around the business of death. Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the display room of caskets is an awesome place for hide and seek. It’s business as usual in Douglas’s small New England town. Until one day an incredibly out of the ordinary murder victim is brought to the funeral home. And more startling: others follow. On the cusp of Halloween, a serial killer has arrived. And unsatisfied with the small-town investigation, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and it’s quirky people, fascinating yet middle grade–appropriate insider information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusion—Death and Douglas has something for readers young and old.

Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe's legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe s homes, examining artifacts from his life locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him.Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions actors, museum managers, collectors, historians who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today."

Part personal travelogue, part detailed guidebook, this book covers hundreds of macabre sites, attractions, and artifacts, all drawn from firsthand experiences of the author.

Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond!

Edgar Award-winning author J.W. Ocker spins this dark, psychological thriller about a travel writer who stays for 13 nights at the infamous Rotterdam Mansion unprepared for the horrors that lie within-- a true love letter to the haunted house genre.

Die Entwicklung der evangelischen Jugendarbeit steht im Fokus, insbesondere im Kontext der sich verändernden gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen. Markus Ocker analysiert die bisherigen Ansätze und die Rolle wichtiger Träger wie dem CVJM und EC, die sich oft der aktuellen Bildungsdiskussion entziehen. Er fordert eine Neuausrichtung der evangelischen Schuljugendarbeit, die sowohl theologische als auch bildungstheoretische Überlegungen einbezieht. Dabei wird die Notwendigkeit betont, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schule und Kinder- sowie Jugendhilfe zu stärken, um den kirchlichen Auftrag effektiv zu erfüllen.

Das Buch ermutigt Gemeinden, ihre Angebote an Schulen auszurichten, um Kinder und Jugendliche in ihrem Lebensumfeld zu erreichen. Es bietet Konzepte, Ziele und praktische Beispiele, um die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Gemeinde und Schule zu fördern und die Betreuungsangebote zu verbessern.

Historie upiornych przedmiotów wywołujące dreszcze! Strzeżcie się... Oto niezwykłe, ale prawdziwe opowieści o najbardziej niesławnych przedmiotach na świecie, które spodobają się nie tylko pasjonatom zjawisk nadprzyrodzonych. Znajdziemy je w muzeach lub na cmentarzach. Bywało, że trafiały do prywatnych domów. Ich historie, często tragiczne i zawsze osobliwe, stały się inspiracją dla niezliczonych horrorów, programów telewizyjnych oraz opowiadań snutych przy ognisku. Przeklęte przedmioty – jedyne, czego potrzebują, aby wyzwolić falę nieszczęść, to przypadkowe spotkanie z człowiekiem. Nieprawdopodobne, ale prawdziwe opowieści, które sprawią, że będziesz miał gęsią skórkę. Opętana przez demony lalka Annabelle, pechowa mumia, przez którą miał zatonąć Titanic, pierścień Silvianusa, który zainspirował Tolkiena do napisania „Hobbita”, mumia Ötziego – człowieka lodu czy Pudełko Dybuka będące inspiracją dla twórców horroru „Opętanie”… To tylko niektóre z upiornych przedmiotów, których historie poznacie w tej książce.