Joseph A Citro
1) Shadow child
Author
Language
English
Description
"To outsiders, the deep, impenetrable forest that blankets Vermont's Green Mountains gives the state its peaceful and verdant mystique, but those same dark woods hide a secret from pre-history that reaches menacingly into the present. Joseph A. Citro's widely read publications about the more haunting history, legends, and lore of New England have earned him a reputation as an expert on themes of the supernatural. In this book (first published in 1987),...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stereotypically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people.
Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites....
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
ix, 232 p. ill., 1 map 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Downsized from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Harrison Allen longs for a fresh start. Alone, with no prospects or plans, he relocates to a borrowed house on Friars Island in Lake Champlain to relax, contemplate, and begin redefining his life. Then he hears about the monsters....
Creatures - perhaps similar to those of Loch Ness - are said to inhabit the murky waters and fogbound marshes of his new island home. His interest piqued, Harrison...
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
vii, 231 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-newspaperman Roger Newton's adventure begins when Claude Lavigne, a power company employee, sees something in the forests of "the gore" - a tiny swatch of unclaimed land created by a surveyor's mistake. His sense of reality unhinged, Lavigne commits suicide. When Lavigne's son, best friend, and an old black man risk an expedition into the gore, Newton, attempting to stop them, upsets a fragile balance and looses an ancient, nameless fear among...
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who was Vermont's first Ghostbuster? Was a full-blown exorcism performed at a local college? What mystery did a Vermont doctor discover on the Moon? Do unknown populations live hidden in the Green Mountains? What are Vermont's most shameful secrets? These and other questions are the 'favorite haunts' of Joseph A. Citro, Vermont's Ghostmaster General. Get the answers you want--and maybe some you don't--in the latest addition to Mr. Citro's ongoing...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
No matter where you live, it is likely that within a twenty-mile radius, someone is being plagued by inexplicable ghostly activity. Some people suffer in baffled silence, others summon the authorities, the clergy or the media. In such uncertain circumstances all make a giant step toward accepting what they had always considered unbelievable.
Author
Language
English
Description
New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people.
Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites....
