Weird New England

An oversize hardcover loaded with color pictures of everything weird!

Weird New England proves without a doubt that the pilgrims landed in one very strange spot. So travel down our region's highways and byways with Joe Citro, your tour guide par excellence, and learn all the stuff about New England that our school marms never taught us, our historical societies keep locked away, and our Chambers of Commerce refuse to discuss...

Colonists, clambakes and the Coast Guard. Sure, those things define New England, as do witches and whale watching. But don't forget our venerable murderers, madmen and colorful eccentrics. And still there's more. New England is also filled to the brim with high strangeness -- ghosts, monsters and demons from hell....

There's no one better to chronicle the odd goings-on in our patriotic, but extremely weird section of the country than native son Joe Citro. For years he has traveled our six states with camera and notepad in hand, mosquito netting or snowshoes firmly in place, in search of the bizarre and the offbeat. And he found them everywhere. He has tracked down some unbelievable tales that have just enough truth in them to create the same uneasiness as a chance meeting with Lizzie Borden's ghost. Count on it: Weird New England is a journey you'll never forget.

A word from the publisher: Joseph A. Citro is an expert in New England weirdness. His many books, radio commentary series and frequent television and radio interviews have done a lot to keep the region's legends, lore, and strange-but-true tales alive in the popular culture.

He has written five suspense novels—three of which have been optioned for motion pictures—and six books about high weirdness in his native New England. Joe lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he teaches at local colleges, lectures widely, and researches the things that man was not meant to know.