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Loren Rhoads

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Flint, Michigan, The United States

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Ray Bradbury, Brian Hodge, Annie Dillard, Angela Carter

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Loren's new project is a blog about visiting cemeteries called CemeteryTravel.com. Her book of cemetery travel essays called WISH YOU WERE HERE will be out in March. For 10 years, Loren edited the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES, drawn from the magazine, came from Scribner in 2009. Her fiction darkens the four-woman anthology SINS OF THE SIRENS, as well as appearing in the chapbooks Ashes & Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society.


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"Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks:  charged with listening to music, for example, or following a line of trees.  The music or the view distracts for a time t


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Average rating: 3.86 · 86 ratings · 25 reviews · 5 distinct works
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blu...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Cemetery Travel
Author appearance, April 15, 2012 02:00PM
Cypress Lawn Cemetery, 1370 El Camino Real, 2nd Floor, Administration Building, Colma, CA, US

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Loren will talk about traveling the world to visit cemeteries from the USS Arizo...more


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October 2009, Loren Rhoads
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? LR: Morbid curiosity changed my life. SS: What is your motto or maxim? LR: There are no bad questions. What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? LR: P..." ...More

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Red Room blog (Travel)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 22, 2012 08:32am
Description: This is a piece I wrote about visiting Venice for the first time.
Cemetery Travel (Travel)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 22, 2012 08:21am
Description: Pointers to my favorite blog posts on Cemetery Travel.
Cemetery of the Week #18 (Travel)
1 chapters   —   updated Jun 02, 2011 11:24am
Description: Copied from my Cemetery Travel blog, this is the June 1st Cemetery of the Week column. Come by next week to see if your favorite cemetery is featured.
Excerpt from Macabre Ink interview (Horror)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
Description: http://macabreink.com/interviews/loren-rhoads-interviewed-life-is-a-morbid-curiosity
Grave and Golem (Travel)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 04, 2009 07:40am
Description: A short meditation on the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, seen through the lens of Rabbi Loew and his Golem.
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I read this one as research for a story I've yet to write. In that vein, it focuses more on the carvers and styles of carousel animals and less on the mechanics on how carousels work than I would have liked, but it's called Carousel Animals and not ...more
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date: April 15, 2012 02:00PM
location: Cypress Lawn Cemetery, 1370 El Camino Real, 2nd Floor, Administration Building, Daly City, CA, The United States
description: Loren will talk about traveling the world to visit cemeteries from the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor to the Hiroshima Peace Park, with stops in Los Angeles, Boston, London, Paris, Prague, and Tokyo.
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The subtitle is closer to the subject of this book that the slightly misleading title. Quigley's definition of mummies is not limited to fleshly corpses but to any human remains. For instance, I wouldn't consider the victims of the Andes-crash soccer...more
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“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
Loren Rhoads, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
Ray Bradbury

“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
Angela Carter

“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
Loren Rhoads, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”
Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange




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