Cursed in New England: Stories Of Damned Yankees - Softcover

Citro, Joseph A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076272868X ISBN 13: 9780762728688

Publisher: Globe Pequot, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of riveting stories about preternatural revenge, numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites. Some are well known, at least regionally. Others are nearly forgotten. All are cursed.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A salty profanity uttered by a taciturn old Yankee is generally more humorous than menacing, but can a curse really be used as a weapon? In Cursed in New England, renowned storyteller Joe Citro recounts seventeen tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against others.
Inside these pages you’ll read about curses that were followed by the strange disappearance of a father and daughter in Rhode Island, mysterious afflictions in Massachusetts, a river of death in Maine, an unaccountable blight in New Hampshire, unexplained madness in Connecticut, and other eerie happenings from New England’s colorful history.
Citro vividly brings these stories to life, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences . . . or something far more sinister.

About the Author:

Known alternately as "Vermont's Ghostmaster General" and "New England's Bard of the Bizarre," Joseph A. Citro is doing more than anyone else to keep the region's legends and lore alive in popular culture. He has written five Vermont-based thrillers and three collections of "strange-but-true" stories. Since 1992 his commentary series on public radio has featured the region's best-loved ghosts, monsters, madmen, and mysteries. He is an expert in New England's occult lore, including Spiritualism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 076272868X
• ISBN 13: 9780762728688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Illustrator: White Jeff