''Shadow Child'' is a novel by American

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and paranormal folklore author

Joseph A. Citro Joseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist who has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, Ghost story, ghost stories, Paranormal, paranormal activity and Occult, occult happenings of New England. Early life and edu ...

.Press Republican : Co-authors catalog region's weirdness Apr 25, 2003 It was originally published on July 1, 1987, before his novel '' Lake Monsters'', but was republished by

University Press of New England The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampsh ...

on September 1, 1998. The novel depicts the psychological and emotional impacts of mysterious disappearances and deaths.

Plot

The main character is Eric Nolan, brother, son, and widower. After the death of his parents, the death of his wife, and his brother's disappearance, Eric decides to move back to his childhood home in

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where his cousin Pamela lives with her own family. Mysterious things start happening in the nearby woods, part of the

Bennington Triangle "Bennington Triangle" is a phrase coined by American author Joseph A. Citro to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of people went missing person, missing between 1945 and 1950. This was further popularized in two books, i ...

that is known for several unsolved disappearances.

References

* * * Citro, Joseph A. Shadow Child. New England: University Press of New England, 1998. Print 1987 British novels British horror novels Novels set in Vermont 1987 debut novels Zebra Books books {{1980s-horror-novel-stub