Joseph A Citro: 7 books

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...

Eric Nolan is a man already too familiar with death. His brother's long-ago disappearance, the loss of his parents, and his wife's recent demise in an auto accident have left him near the edge physically and emotionally. In desperation he returns to his boyhood haunt, the family farm in rural Antrim, Vermont, now occupied by his cousin, Pamela, her husband, Clint, & Luke, their four-year-old son.

Take a chilling tour of spooky New England legends . . . Visit Vermont with this comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories, and strange-but-true facts—and enjoy supernatural side trips to the surrounding areas of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Quebec—with...

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 . . .

Three amateur investigators encounter UFOs, bizarre religious phenomena, multiple personalities, and psychic violence. They're drawn forward through the Gothic halls of a Canadian hospital for elderly and demented priests to the locked chambers of a covert American repository for space age weaponry where they uncover the most sinister application of computer technology since Kubrick's 2001.

OLD EVIL Four years have passed since the slaughter that took place at the old Whitcombe house. Four years since the tiny picture-perfect town of Antrim, Vermont, was devastated by the ugliest event in its history. Now the bloodstained Whitcombe walls have been painted over, the broken-down doors repaired....

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,...