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Loren Rhoads

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born
Flint, Michigan, The United States
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female

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influences
Ray Bradbury, Brian Hodge, Annie Dillard, Angela Carter

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August 2007


About this author

Loren's new book of cemetery travel essays called WISH YOU WERE HERE is coming from Western Legends Publishing in March.

In the meantime, she blogs about cemeteries as travel destinations at project CemeteryTravel.com.

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 HAUNTED MANSION PROJECT, DEMON LOVERS, and the chapbooks Ashes & Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society.


Average rating: 3.89 · 129 ratings · 33 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
Morbid Curiosity Cures the ...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
Death's Garden: Relationshi...
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995
Ashes & Rust
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005
Wish You Were Here: Adventu...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013
Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994
The Haunted Mansion Project...
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013
Morbid Curiosity Cures the ...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009
Sins of the Sirens
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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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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Wish You Were Here by Loren Rhoads
Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel
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read in May, 2013
This is my new book, so I'm biased. I'm glad to answer questions about cemeteries and travel, if you have any.
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
I'm always looking for a way to get more stuff done and this system comes recommended by everyone from the owner of the Samovar Tea Houses to Unclutterer. After reading the book, I'm not sure I've bought into the cult, but it did underline some of th...more
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City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
The book jacket proclaims, Dalrymple "revisits its seven 'dead' cities and the eighth city -- today's Dehli -- where multiple ages commingle in a melange of bygone and current cultures. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed sp...more
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Zac and the Dream Stealers by Ross MacKenzie
The premise of the book sounded like fun. Nobody can sleep because evil wizards from the land on the other side of sleep are stealing energies from their dreams. Except that other than Grandma reading a newspaper and Zac having a nightmare, there isn...more
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Dry Storeroom No. 1 by Richard Fortey
I wanted this book to be like the backstage tour of the California Academy of Sciences. I wanted an understanding how how a natural history museum works, how exhibits are curated, how specimens are preserved and stored and used. That must be another...more
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
read in April, 2013
I read really slowly, so for me to have finished a novel in under a month is remarkable. It's been a long time since I found myself carrying a book around, reading it on the bus and at the movie theater, even staying in bed late in the morning to rea...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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