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Green Mountains, Dark Tales

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Format: Hardcover, 229pp.ISBN: 0874518636 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: April 1999 Vermonters Freeze The Elderly For The Winter Months. That's what the Montpelier Argus and Patriot reported in 1887. In 1939, The Rutland Herald, Boston Globe, Yankee Magazine, and The Old Farmer's Almanac all picked up the story about six elderly people who were packed in straw and buried in snow until the spring thaw. Many consider this the Granddaddy of all Vermont folktales, and in Green Mountains, Dark Tales, Joseph A. Citro, Vermont's best-selling collector of the odd and the arcane tells the story behind the story in an all-new assortment of marvels, mysteries, and mayhem from the Green Mountain state. These strange but (mostly) true tales from Vermont's past and present cover Vermont's two populations: one living, one dead; the underworld; hoaxes; UFOs and alien beasts of land, water, and air; Vermont's colorful crazies; and the category for everything else-"Weird Vermont." There's a story for nearly every county in Vermont, and many of the stories are in print for the first time. Combining the skills of a scrupulous researcher and masterful storyteller, Citro expands the terrain covered in his previous books on New England lore, venturing even farther into the realms of the mysterious and paranormal. He did not invent any of these stories from Vermont's real and imagined past; Citro's investigation included digging in libraries and archives, interviewing witnesses, and visiting the locations of these occurrences to experience the weirdness himself. Joe Citro found an unusual number of places where Captain Kidd's treasure is presumed to be buried-in a land-locked state nowhere near the seas he once roamed; we meet the 7th son of a 7th son and those he healed; we tour a home designed by otherworldly architects, pass the night in a haunted hotel; hear the tales of the gruesome Pigman, and of one town whose cats and dogs turned on their owners. Citro's fiction is to Vermont what Stephen King's is to Maine. Citro's nonfiction recalls Edward Rowe Snow's in an earlier era, and all his work establishes Joseph Citro as a master teller of tales-strange, scary, and very satisfying. Whether for sheer entertainment, or as a guide to the folklore and mythology of the region, Green Mountains, Dark Tales makes you ask the question, "Can such things happen in Vermont?" Joseph A. Citro has rapidly become a major Vermont institution. After publishing five novels on supernatural themes (four of which were based on actual New England history and legend), he turned to occult nonfiction. Green Mountain Ghosts (1994) and Passing Strange (1996) became instant best-sellers. In 1998, UPNE reissued his first novel, Shadow Child. A popular lecturer and teacher, his commentaries are also heard regularly on Vermont Public Radio. Joe Citro currently lives in Burlington.