Loren Rhoads's Blog, page 96
December 9, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Julia Solis
Julia Solis organizes scavenger hunts and exhibitions in abandoned spaces. She is the main instigator of the urban exploration outfit Dark Passage. In 2002 she founded Ars Subterranea, an artists' group dedicated to the creative preservation of ruined spaces. She is the author of New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City (Routledge, 2005), Scrub Station (a short story collection published by ...
December 8, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Gravity Goldberg
Gravity Goldberg is one of the masterminds behind the San Francisco-based literary magazine Instant City (http://instantcity.org/). Her fiction has been published in Watchword, Strange Tales, Transfer, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian lit section. She's also written for SFGate, Tempe Crime Wave, Panache, and Stretcher. For Morbid Curiosity magazine, she wrote three pieces. "The Black ...
December 7, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Katrina James
Katrina James had her first short story published in 1998 and has been creating a steadily growing body of work ever since. She co-produced the cult public access show "kittypr0n" and has acted in and worked behind-the-scenes on several local stage productions. She currently spends her days as a mild-mannered office manager. Her story "Feed" appeared in Morbid Curiosity #8 and is ...
December 6, 2009
Morbid blog tour: John Domeier
John Domeier is a photographer, writer, and social worker from Sacramento who hates long walks on the beach because sand gets in his metal parts and seawater can make him rust. He wants you to know that his head is not a prosthetic and his voice is not computer generated, so feel free to laugh at him or with him. "The Fruit of All Evil," which appeared in Morbid Curiosity #9, was his first ...
December 5, 2009
Morbid blog tour: R. N. Taylor
R. N. Taylor has written for Apocalypse Culture and the magazines Seconds, Outlaw Biker Tattoo Review, Exit, Esoterra, and Cyber-Psychos AOD. Today he is perhaps best known for his lyrics and performances with the neo-folk band Changes. He wrote about a rotting goat's head for Morbid Curiosity #2 and contributed "A Night in the House of Dr. Moreau," about working in a vivisection lab, to ...
December 4, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Hugues Leblanc
Hugues Leblanc is a photographer in Montréal, Quebec. His haunting black-and-white images have been exhibited extensively in Montreal and around the United States, France, and England. Hugues has a penchant for cemeteries, ossuaries, mummies, and other assorted macabre subjects. Visit his website: http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/tapholov/ Hugues provided three covers for ...
December 3, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Seth Flagsberg
Seth Flagsberg has studied at San Francisco's Writing Salon since 2000. When not writing, he used to practice law at the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office -- where he defended over twenty people accused of murder. "Brain Salad Surgery," about hammer-murderer Ron Donsteel, was published in Morbid Curiosity #10 and reprinted in Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues.Q: What does morbid ...
December 1, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Christine Sulewski
Christine Sulewski and I met at the Clarion Writers' Workshop a very long time ago. She allowed me to publish two of her travel stories in Morbid Curiosity #1 and served as the first issue's proofreader. Her writing also featured in the books Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect and Death's Garden: Relationship with Cemeteries (Automatism Press, 1994 and 1996). She lives, works, writes, ...
November 30, 2009
Morbid blog tour: Maurice Broaddus
Maurice Broaddus is the author of an urban fantasy series called The Knights of Breton Court (Book One: King Maker comes from HarperCollins in March 2010). His anthology Dark Faith comes out in May 2010. His short stories have seen print in various places from Apex Magazine to Weird Tales. He has two novellas out: Orgy of Souls (co-written with Wrath James White, Apex Books) and Devil's ...
November 29, 2009
Morbid blog tour: T. M. Gray
T. M. Gray's novels Ghosts of Eden, Mr. Crisper, and The Ravenous are enjoyed by a widespread audience of horror fans. With the nonfiction Ghosts of Maine, the ghost hunter's guide to over 100 paranormal hotspots throughout the state, Gray proves her mastery of research and devotion to Maine's darker history, legends, and folklore. She had one essay in Morbid Curiosity magazine, ...
