Joseph A. Citro
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Joseph A. Citro, occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" (a name first given to him by the Boston Globe) or "the Ghost-Master General", is a Vermont author who has extensively researched and documented the folklore, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of Vermont and the rest of New England.
Interested in horror since he was child, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, Citro began his writing career by authoring several horror novels, including The Gore, Shadow Child, and Guardian Angels. These novels blended the gothic elements of Poe and the eldritch terror of Lovecraft with actual Vermont folklore and contemporary New England settings. Later, Citro decided to make an attempt to catologue all of the eccentric legends, folk tales, mysterious monsters, UFO sightings, haunted houses, and general uncanny activity of New England. His books on these subjects include Green Mountains' Ghosts, Ghouls, and Unsolved Mysteries, ', Green Mountains, Dark Tales, and most recently '. Later, he published with Diane Foulds, a travel guide to New Englands peculiar and paranormal locations.
Citro has given many seminars about writing horror and non-fiction, and given commentaries on Vermont Public Radio.
Novels
- Shadow Child (1987)
- Guardian Angels (1988)
- The Unseen (1990)
- Dark Twilight (aka Lake Monsters) (1991)
- Deus-X (1994)
Non Fiction
- Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls and Unsolved Mysteries (1994)
- (1996)
- The Vermont Ghost Guide (2000)
- (2003) (with Diane E Foulds)
- (2004)
- Weird New England (2006) (with a forward by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran)
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