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

A group of young zombie sympathizers are the only thing standing between the diseased and their hunters, who collect a fee for each undead bagged. It's a new world where humans have learned to lead semi-normal lives despite the zombie plague. But when a zombie protector's mother is endangered by a bitten hunter, a boy must question his beliefs and make a choice: protect the zombies or his mom. This is a different zombie tale, one told with humor as well as horror, from the perspective of a young man wrestling to do the right thing in a world gone wrong.

Heartbeat

A man learns that his family's fortune is cursed when his grandfather sends him to an old manor on a pretense. A black cat curiously enters the same house through a window. They will soon meet the resident spooks, generations of ghouls who are as stuck there as them .

Spooked

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

But in the real world, Society has advanced to being governed by cold hard Extremes. Aggressive weaponized Drones patrol sectors of a restrictive realm where lives are easily taken, and books must secretly be guarded by a Resistance devoted to protecting original works from editorial or physical harm. A Dystopian Thriller, and part of Lori's Ghost Collection SPOOKTACULAR TALES, this Novelette provides a stark warning about turning our lives over to the Machines. As a spirit, Arnold Stamp drifted along revisiting his former haunts and gazing wistfully at the window of the apartment he once called home, occupied now by a lonely depressed woman he would like to know. If only he were still alive!The specter learns an awful truth about his death from Renata Stowe. Likewise, she wistfully dreamed of meeting him, the final victim in a string of forgotten killings. Yet this is no idle fascination. The pair quickly realize there is more than attraction between them. A deeper connection has occurred, or perhaps was meant to be. In spite of different spans upon the Earth, it might be no coincidence their paths should eventually meet. Can these unfortunate souls, who seem destined for each other, transcend the distance between their Lifetimes and the barriers between their Dimensions? Will a troubled young woman make the right choice, or is it already too late?A touching, bleak, thought-provoking vision of a Society out of control from the author of THE ROOM AT THE END OF THE HALL.

The Apparition

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

Home alone on All Hallows Eve, Kat Mandou is being creeped out by the family that lives next to him. Why is a child often screaming over there? And what's with those crazy signs in their front yard? Feeling alienated from peers and parents, intimidated by his new pet, he decides to get to the bottom of the weirdness of his neighbors. What he discovers will haunt him. A fun and humorous horror story that proves you never can tell what might lurk in the house "Next Door". From THE MACABRE MIND OF LORI R. LOPEZ, a collection of thirteen bizarre tales.

Next Door

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 .

Jar Baby

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