Joseph A Citro Books In Order

Novels

Shadow Child (1987)
Guardian Angels (1988)
The Gore (1990)
The Unseen (1990)
Dark Twilight (1991)
Deus-X (1994)
Deus-X: The Reality Conspiracy (2003)

Collections

Monsters (1986)
Green Mountains, Dark Tales (1999)

Novellas

Soul Keeper (1990)
Not Yet Dead (2010)

Non fiction

Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls and Unsolved Mysteries (1994)
Passing Strange (1997)
The Vermont Ghost Guide (2000)
Curious New England (2003)
Cursed in New England (2004)
Weird New England (2005)
The Vermont Monster Guide (2009)
Vermont’s Haunts (2011)
Joe Citro’s Weird Vermont (2013)
Vermont Ghost Experience (2021)

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Joseph A Citro Books Overview

Shadow Child

Fact and fiction combine in a classic that scared Vermonters out of the woods.

Guardian Angels

The terrifying companion to Citro’s Shadow Child.

To escape the tensions of his past, ex newspaperman Roger Newton retreats to Vermont’s fabled Northeast Kingdom, the wildest, most remote portion of the state. But there he discovers a terrifying secret that turns his life upside down. Newton’s adventure begins when Claude Lavigne, a power company employee, sees something monumentally strange in the forests of ‘The Gore‘ a tiny swatch of unclaimed land created by a surveyor’s mistake. The uncanny sight so upsets him, so rattles his sense of what’s real, that it leads to his suicide. Lavigne’s son, his best friend, and an ancient black man risk an expedition into The Gore to discover what Mr. Lavigne saw. In his attempt to stop them, Newton upsets a centuries old balance that threatens to loose a long buried nightmare upon the people of Vermont.

Dark Twilight

A monstrous tale by Vermont’s master of the macabre.

Deus-X: The Reality Conspiracy

Available for the first time in paperback, Citro’s most ambitious novel is a supercharged cross between The X Files and The Exorcist

Green Mountains, Dark Tales

Vermont’s best selling collector of the odd and the arcane outdoes himself with this assortment of Green Mountain marvels, mysteries, and mayhem. Can such things happen in Vermont?

Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls and Unsolved Mysteries

Aimed at adults, teenagers, and tourists, this is the most comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories and strange but true facts ever assembled about Vermont and the surrounding areas of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Quebec one that can be used to find these haunted sites.

Passing Strange

New England’s dark hills, fogbound coasts, and hidden villages have inspired generations of writers such as Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and King. But these authors’ dark imaginings pale when compared to little known but well documented and true tales. In this delightfully spine tingling tour of all six New England states, Citro chronicles the haunted history and folklore of a region steeped in hardship and horror, humor and pathos.

The Vermont Ghost Guide

The very first illustrated census of Green Mountain ghosts.

Curious New England

Points the way to all the tantalizing treats and terrifying treasures that remain tucked away in overlooked museums, private collections, and forgotten recesses of this very special region.

Cursed in New England

New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some sterotypically tactiturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions the opposite of benedicitons 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. Some are well known, at least regionally. Others are nearly forgotten. Within these pages, renowned storyteller Joseph A. Citro vividly brings these tales to life, letting us decide if these tales of woe were bad luck or…
something else.

The Vermont Monster Guide

Though not widely acknowledged, the Green Mountain state is home to more winged wonders, wet weirdoes, and crypto creatures than any other state in the country. You probably know about Champ, the elusive monster of Lake Champlain. But what about Northfield’s Pigman? And Richford’s The Awful? Wherever you are in Vermont in town or country, river or lake, land or sky you’re never far from the unknown. Or the unexpected. Joseph A. Citro, respected monster hunter, brings to light over sixty Vermonsters, many captured in exquisite, ghoulish detail by the pen, brush, and ink of artist Stephen R. Bissette. Designed as both a cautionary tale and handy field manual for those who dare, The Vermont Monster Guide will be of interest to natives and tourists, to young and old…
though it may not be suitable for readers with fragile constitutions. The authors’ previous collaboration, The Vermont Ghost Guide, is a popular favorite and the perfect companion to this volume. WARNING: The authors and publisher are not responsible for any unfortunate encounters that may result from the reading of this book.