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Loren Rhoads

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Loren Rhoads is author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, and its sequel Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel.

Loren is also author of This Morbid Life, a morbid memoir, and Unsafe Words, the first full-length collection of her edgy, award-winning stories.

She's the co-author of Lost Angels and its sequel Angelus Rose. She's also author of the space opera In the Wake of the Templars trilogy: The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes.

Finally, she's editor of Tales for the Camp Fire, which raised money for survivors of 2018's devastating wildfire in Butte County, California.
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Loren Rhoads I carry a notebook in my purse and jot things down every spare moment: on the bus, waiting to pick my kid up from summer camp, at the dentist, every c…moreI carry a notebook in my purse and jot things down every spare moment: on the bus, waiting to pick my kid up from summer camp, at the dentist, every chance I get. I write down snatches of conversation I've overheard, stuff I've seen walking around, lists, thoughts on what I've been reading. For me, the trick is to just keep the words moving through. Then, when I need to focus on a project, I don't have to worry about priming the pump. I just let 'er rip.(less)
Loren Rhoads I started writing As Above, So Below because my soon-to-be cowriter Brian Thomas was showing me around Los Angeles -- and he had a thing for Coop's de…moreI started writing As Above, So Below because my soon-to-be cowriter Brian Thomas was showing me around Los Angeles -- and he had a thing for Coop's devil girl stickers. I only meant to write a short story, but Brian jumped in with a second -- then a third -- chapter and the whole thing snowballed from there.(less)
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Morbid Curiosity magazine Rises from the Dead

Twenty years ago, the last issue of Morbid Curiosity magazine saw the light of day. In honor of that anniversary, I am assembling a brand-new bonus issue — #11 — which will be Kickstarted later this month.

I’ve been busily inviting authors and collecting their essays. Believe me when I tell you this is going to do the earlier issues of Morbid Curiosity proud. Contributors include writers who re

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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez
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Mariana Enriquez is wild. Her collection of cemetery travel essays opens with her picking up a street musician and having sex with him amidst the monuments at Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa. She considers stealing papel picado off a grave in Guadalajara ...more
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The Secret Life of a Cemetery by Benoît  Gallot
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Père-Lachaise, the second international cemetery I ever visited, made me fall in love with the cemetery's history, celebrities, and amazing sculpture. All of those things are touched on in this charming little book.

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Go to Hell by Erika Engelhaupt
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I liked the first section the best, where Engelhaupt wrote about real places with mythological connections: the cave where Hercules went into the underworld and faced Cerberus, the cave where Orpheus turned back, the valley of Gehenna in Israel, and ...more
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The Secret Life of a Cemetery by Benoît  Gallot
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Père-Lachaise, the second international cemetery I ever visited, made me fall in love with the cemetery's history, celebrities, and amazing sculpture. All of those things are touched on in this charming little book.

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We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down by Rachael Hanel
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Rachael Hanel's father was a small-town gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. As a child, she helped him by removing silk flowers so he could mow around gravestones. Her mother told her stories about the people buried nearby. Rachael liked the morbid s ...more
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Too Poor to Die by Amy  Shea
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I grew up near a Potter's Field. It was a blank green expanse of lawn where the city of Flint buried people who didn't have the money to purchase a grave plot or pay for their own cremation. For many years, the space wasn't marked at all. Eventually ...more
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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One of my favorite books in the world: I can't imagine how many times I've read this. The older I get, the more I take away from this book. Bradbury published it in 1962, when he was younger than I am now. I wonder if I will ever be so wise.

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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"

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“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?”
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