Taking a wrong Freeway Exit to a part of the city abandoned by most, a scholarly woman learns what prowls these dark forsaken blocks after breaking down and losing all contact with Civilization. Frantic steps carry her farther from safety and security, as a brilliant intellect begins to unravel. Armed by an electric torch, blank pages from a Spiral Notebook and a used Ballpoint Pen, Alexis Little Joyce struggles to leave an urgent warning - to communicate from beyond what seems certain to be a gruesome demise. These last words on paper will be all that remain of her, the woman feels certain. Members of a terrifying subterranean horde toy with and track her, while Alexis is burdened by woeful haunting memories. Captured, she desperately escapes to hunker in a refuge and channel her final thoughts into a message that might convey some hope if found .

A Walking Nightmare

PART ONE: How far will a mother go for the sake of her son? The answer is a disturbing twist on the Lycan legend as Lori R. Lopez (author of "Bloodpath" and "Heartbeat") depicts an experiment gone terribly awry. Charles is a man living with illness and deformity, working in a lab with his scientist mom whose primary goal has become the desperate search for a cure to his debilitating disease. Their work releases a plague that will transform the civilized world into a savage jungle of kill or be killed. Is there hope for Mankind, or will these new creatures wipe out the human race?PART TWO: As a man schemes to capture the male and female werewolves, Charles discovers the truth behind his original disease and the secrets his mother was keeping. Werewolves, humans, and were-zombies clash in a world filled with change.

The Lycaning

In Tome One of the whimsical epic adventure, a Mexican-American brother duo of folklore dancers and a desert farmer - along with a diverse band of mortals, angels, and ghosts - battle supernatural forces to protect an oracle-princess as well as past, present, and future times from an Aztec serpent god's wrath. WARNING: Contains big words and inventive language.

Dance Of The Chupacabras

A young woman is confronted by the ghosts of her demons when she must return to Leery Lane, the dead-end where she lost an important piece in the puzzle of her past. She and her sibling haven't spoken in two decades, since that terrible Halloween when Frieda borrowed something that belonged to Francine without permission. She feels that she needs to remember what it was and find the object of contention, somewhere in a row of decrepit Victorians, to repair the rift between sisters. But some secrets are better left buried. A witty blend of Gothic Horror, Humor, Supernatural and Mystery, Leery Lane is a ghost story to curl up with and savor. Take a walk you won't be able to forget on the creepy side of town .

Leery Lane

A gang of pirates nab Oddzilla for their traveling Monster Carnival. He thought he had problems, but that's where his troubles truly begin .

The Strange Tail Of Oddzilla

Transported out of his element into a realm of dangers and foes, Spider is aided by the insects and arachnids he befriends, but only he can see the Fairy Fly. Is she real or imagined? This whimsical novel about finding oneself while feeling small in a big world takes a step back and several steps downward to peep at humanity from below. At the same time, the story is an allegory of the human condition: life and death matters, war and peace, our everyday struggles on a tiny scale. Part humorous, part philosophical, at times poetic .

The Fairy Fly

A zombie defender must question his principles when a hunter becomes infected by the zombie plague and threatens the boy's mother in HEARTBEAT. A teen learns the terrible truth about the house NEXT DOOR. A young woman's dream of independence is challenged when her parents depart and she must face her Night Frights in MACABRE. A very troubled man seeks professional help for his hang-ups, compulsions and phobias in BACKLASH. A Thin Man wanders into a world of trouble after the carnival that was his home goes bust in UNNATURAL. These are among the tormented souls who inhabit the author's morbidly manic thoughts!THE MACABRE MIND OF LORI R. LOPEZ was her first full-length compendium devoted to the creepier side of life. The dark places and spaces not under the Sun or Moon. In Lori's mind, horrors, humor and weirdities abound. From zombies and strange creatures to psychos, werewolves and Bigfoot, this is a book you should not read when alone. Or lost in the woods. Or strolling past a fence. Or walking down a crowded street. Read it in a library or bookstore, someplace safe! (And good luck.)Look for an Illustrated Print Edition containing original artwork by the author.

The Macabre Mind Of Lori R. Lopez:  Thirteen Tormentous Tales

It was one of those tasteless roadside attractions but with a twist, a fairytale theme. The Ache Family could not have imagined what trouble stopping for food and gas might result in during their very first vacation trip. Let sleeping girls lie. That was what they should have done. Sadly, they never seemed to do anything quite right. Inspired by SLEEPING BEAUTY, presented from multiple perspectives, this humorous horror tale by the author of CHOCOLATE-COVERED EYES and THE FAIRY FLY allows you to peek inside the heads of an average quirky family.

Beauty

Gillian is left to conquer Night Frights that have terrified her since she was little. She faces her biggest challenge as she is poised to leave once and for all. Not your typical protagonist, she is whiny and self-centered from living in the shadow of a creepy old structure. All she wants at this point is to escape. Will the creatures haunting the windmill release her, or is she doomed to remain in their thrall? A suspenseful chiller, "Macabre" reminds us of those things that once caused us to hide beneath covers and shiver at the thought of them going bump in the night. This horror tale is also available in THE MACABRE MIND OF LORI R. LOPEZ collection.

Macabre

What murky fate awaits in the shadows beneath her home? A frightful evening connects to a scary incident from the past, forcing Cynthia Goodwin to accept a painful truth about herself .

The Dark Down There

Roman Emperor Hadrian had a secret that he carried sealed in a jar. A young woman visiting an odd little shop that sells antiquities along with comic books learns of a curse involving Hadrian's Jar. She and the shop's owner must confront a vengeful spirit released from his tomb: the ghost of one very bad baby!Look for an illustrated print edition with artwork by the author. And Lori's horror collection ODDS AND ENDS, containing "Jar Baby"!

Jar Baby

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 .

Odds And Ends:  A Dark Collection

Losing his job in a Sideshow, Darius Exavier feels even thinner than usual. How long before he disappears? He thinks he has found a solution to his woes when a kind rural physician hires him as an assistant. But the doctor turns out to be more of the mad scientist variety, and his barn hosts some pretty strange experiments. Darius finds himself drawn into a crazy situation that he cannot resist. It's almost like falling in love .

Unnatural

Wellsby Manor has a history of bloodshed, built upon the grave of an evil entity who tormented and ate Stone Age humans then infected the soil for ages. His brutal presence inhabits the mansion, terrifying and slaughtering wealthy occupants .

Livres