Passing Strange

Joseph Citro

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 1997
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547527314
• Print ISBN:
  9781576300596
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections

New England's dark hills, fogbound coasts, and hidden villages have inspired generations of writers such as Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and King. But these authors' dark imaginings pale when compared to little-known but well-documented and true tales. In this delightfully spine-tingling tour of all six New England states, Citro chronicles the haunted history and folklore of a region steeped in hardship and horror, humor and pathos.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction: A Book of Wonders
• PART I: Spirited Communication
• The Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Machiasport Madonna
• Spear; Or, The Modern Prometheus
• The Chittenden Investigation
• PART II: Barnyard Tales and Terrors
• Funny Farms
• The Mystery of the Perforated Pond
• The Incident at Orwell
• A Shocking Tale
• The Problem of Old Hairy
• PART III: Wild Lands
• From the Mountains of Madness
• The Bennington Triangle
• Bridgewater
• A Winsted Window?
• Beyond the Dark Entry
• The Town that Won’t Die
• PART IV: Cosmic Relief
• The Cosmic Comedian
• The Horrible Harlequins
• Where’s Roger?
• The Wicked Water Sprite
• Water, Water Everywhere
• PART V: What Rough Beast?
• Dover’s Frail Phantom
• New England Wailers
• The Mysterious Men in Black
• When the Devil Came to Provincetown
• Wild and Wily Wanderers
• PART VI: Damned Yankees
• The Hungry Dead
• Old Man of the Mountain
• A Picture of Ephriam Gray
• PART VII: Grave Sojourners
• The Publick Universal Friend
• Danville’s Divine Comedy
• Dr. Dixon’s Dilemma
• Troubled at Midnight
• Opened Graves
• Rest in Peace
• PART VIII: A New England Ghost Tour
• Bridges to Nowhere
• Ghost-Hunting
• Things Unseen?
• Communication
• Terrible Tricksters
• PART IX: The Last Word
• Notes, Acknowledgments, and Sources
• Geographic Index
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