Joseph A. Citro

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Joseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre"^[1] or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England.

Interested in horror since he was a child, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, Citro began his writing career by authoring several horror novels, including The Unseen, Shadow Child,^[2] and . 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 catalogue 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 , , , and most recently . He published with , a travel guide to New England's 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)
• (1988)
• The Unseen (1990)
• Lake Monsters (1991)
• Deus-X (1994)

Non-fiction[]

• (1994)
• (1996)
• The Vermont Ghost Guide (2000)
• (2003) (with Diane E. Foulds)
• (2004)
• (2006) (with a foreword by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran)
• (2009)

Further reading[]

• "Joseph Citro: Vermont's Own King of the Gothic Genre" by Yvonne Daley, Rutland Daily Herald (Feb 24, 1991)
• "The Bard of the Bizarre: Joseph Citro's novels marry a love of horror with the mysteries of Vermont" by Yvonne Daley, Boston Globe (Feb 24, 1992)
• "Joe Citro mines his dark tales from Vermontiana" by Melissa McKenzie, Rutland Daily Herald (April 4, 1999)

Notes[]

External links[]

• Joseph A. Citro at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database