“Are there things so strange, so terrifying,

that death is preferable to knowing about them?”

Roger Newton’s adventure begins when Claude Lavigne, a power company employee, sees something monumentally strange in the forests of “the gore” -- a tiny swatch of unclaimed land created by a surveyor’s mistake. The uncanny sight so upsets him, so rattles his sense of what’s real, that it leads to his suicide.

Lavigne’s son, his best friend, and an ancient black man risk an expedition into the gore to discover what Mr. Lavigne saw. In his attempt to stop them, Newton upsets a centuries-old balance that threatens to loose a long-buried nightmare upon the people of Vermont.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Novelist, folklorist, and public radio commentator, Joseph A. Citro is considered an expert on New England’s historical oddities and unexplained phenomena. A resident of Vermont, he has authored numerous novels and nonfiction books, lectured widely, and appeared on regional and national radio and television.