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With a 2025 update and a new afterword.
“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.
Bringing books to market, one manuscript at a time!
Since 2017, Redhawk Publications at Catawba Valley Community College has been proud to bring distinctive voices and original books to life, with more than 200 titles published so far. We are one of only a handful of community colleges in the United States with a literary press. To learn more about Redhawk, our submission guidelines, local literary services, or writing workshops, feel free to contact Patty Thompson at pthompson994@cvcc.edu.
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