O.T.I.S. News

A few months back I announced that I was under contract to write a book about my visits to macabre oddities throughout New England. After six months of intense road trips and my usual half-assed writing, the book has finally been delivered to the publisher.

It's due out before this Fall, but pretty soon I'll start making announcements about it, letting you know the title, unveiling the cover art, offering sneak peeks of the content and posting extra pics of some of the grim oddities in the book.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to showing it to you guys. Hope you dig it. Stay tuned to the O.T.I.S. Facebook fan page or my @JWOCKER twitter feed, as that's where the various announcements will hit first.

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Have a short story called "Why Do the Heathen Rage?" included in the anthology Chimeraworld #6. It's an attempt at the most violent story ever written.

Shriek Freak Quarterly reprinted my O.T.I.S. entry on Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery for its July 2009 issue:

IMDB.com featured the Timberline Lodge/Oregon State Hospital article on its Hit List for July 4th weekend:

The July issue of Rue Morgue magazine features a new article by me on Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery in Salem, MA...this article is totally different from the O.T.I.S. entry on the same topic.


The College, the alumni magazine of St. John's College in Annapolis, MD (one of my alma maters), recently featured an article by me about oddity hunting along the upper half of the I-95 corridor. Link goes to a PDF of the whole publication, and the article is on page 48.


Made IMDb.com's Hit List recently:


O.T.I.S. is now "As Seen on CNN"...

Made it to a CNN front-page headline, in fact:

The March edition of Rue Morgue features a new article by me on the town of Sleepy Hollow, NY.


Volume 3 of the literature journal, Studies in Australian Weird Fiction, features an article by me on Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel called, "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."

IMDB.com recently featured an O.T.I.S. article for the 12th time on their front-page Hit List.

In an effort to take all the interest out of human interest stories, the Nashua Telegraph interviewed me about O.T.I.S.

The book American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty has been published. It features a clunkily titled essay by me on the movie version of Blatty's The Exorcist that I referenced at the end of the Exorcist Stairs piece here on O.T.I.S. You really should be just watching the movie instead of reading about it, though.


The November issue of Rue Morgue magazine features an article by me in its Travelogue of Terror section about the filming locations of George Romero's Living Dead trilogy. Long live the dead.