Friday, January 16, 2015

Odds and Ends: A Dark Collection


An assortment of the weird and wonderfully grim are displayed for your fear and amusement.  Whether you like quiet horror, humorous horror, stark horror, monstrous in-your-face horror, you’ll find what scares you here.  Twenty-six diverse tales and clusters of flash stories or drabbles fit together between dark poems and brief witfully pithy essays on women writing Horror like pieces of a macabre jigsaw puzzle devised by a single madwoman, Lori R. Lopez.

Among the “Odds And Ends” . . . a devilish jack-in-the-box helps a young woman get even.  Two little girls face-off in “Nemeses”.  A very old baby is released from its jar at a museum in “Jar Baby”.  Spaghetti comes to life in “Bloodwyrm”.  A trainride takes one fellow on a harrowing journey toward “Fate”.  A man and woman are reunited by the same curse that tore them apart in “The Fruit Of Thy Womb”.  A weakling finds a dreadful “Cereal Box Surprise” at the bottom of the package.  Ladies play a lethal hand of cards in “Mindless”.  A couple wakes up to discover an enormous cobweb filling the house in “Spider Soup”.  Falling asleep could end the world in “Awake”, while painting portraits takes a nightmarish turn for an artist in “Deathbed”.  A girl watches her friends disappear on a darkly sinister beach at “The Vanishing Point”, and much much more.  The print edition features peculiar illustrations by the author.

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About the author:

Lori R. Lopez wears many hats, including Author and Artist (she designs her book covers as well as illustrating most of her tomes). Add to that Musician, Songwriter, and Actress. Not to mention, an Activist against abuse as well as for conservation and animal rights. She has never been what you could call Normal, except perhaps Abby Normal. But that’s not very normal at all. And there is no telling what might crawl out of her head, which is why she generally wears corks in her ears to prevent escapage. Sorry, that’s a perfect example. Please just step over it and don’t, whatever you do, look back. Her works span multiple categories including novels, short stories, and poetry in a blend of genres that range from very dark to extremely light and witty. Lori’s book titles include: Out-Of-Mind Experiences, Chocolate-Covered Eyes, Dance Of The Chupacabras, An Ill Wind Blows, The Fairy Fly, The Queen Of Hats. She pens a humorous and darkly horrific monthly column called “Poetic Reflections” at www.fairyflyentertainment.com. Fine Print: The author unapologetically takes pride in creatively reshaping the rules of writing and genres when it suits her style. She is known for poetic prose and uncommon terms (some of the words are admittedly made up). If you try to put her in a box, she will simply climb out. You have been warned.

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