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

With thirteen oft-humorous "Poetic Reflections" columns as a framework for chapters and themes, the author presents a collection of original poems and song lyrics from "a lifetime of versage" - a journey through her soul. The volume features giddy lingual romps, the words to a variety of Folk-Rock ballads, poems from other book projects, witty mullings, and much more. A serious thread running through the book is the topic of Abuse, which the author addresses directly as well as in verse. The collection is thoughtful, unusual, uplifting, and emotional. This is Lori R. Lopez at her gravest and wryly mischievous best. What is an Author's Draft? It is an original concept devised by Lori R. Lopez: The author's true voice; the author's pure and untampered vision, preserving her idiosyncracies and eccentric stylings!

Poetic Reflections:  Keep The Heart Of A Child - Poetic Reflections, #1

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

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

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

This unique adventure depicts one night when an ordinary person lacking confidence must battle a Wicked Wind. The stakes are high as she, along with friends and foes, travels through a magical Stormworld that culminates in a ghost town populated by more than just spirits. ILL WIND is a story that keeps delivering action and fun throughout, a fable as whimsical and unconventional in style as it is in plot. More than a single tale in a single genre, the book blends Humor, Fantasy, Adventure, Suspense, and Horror. From the time the characters are sucked into the Storm, the reader is transported with them on a strange chaotic trek. Meezly finds herself tangled in a web of chills and intrigue as she attempts to search for a mysterious gem called The Cursed Eye, which her missing father entrusted her to safeguard. The stone was used by a Sumerian king to transform an evil Jinn from a wind spirit to a vainglorious force. The female protagonist is introduced as a vulnerable individual struggling to overcome debilitating losses. Meezly stumbles through a gauntlet of thirteen macabre tribulations down a forest highway. Twists and madness abound during her eclectic hectic journey of the soul. It is a lighthearted yet touching trek that readers may wish to take again. This Illustrated E-Book Edition features odd and vivid artwork by the author. WINNER of the Vicious Spirits Novel Writing Month Book Contest 2011 (Unpublished); First Place for Best Interior Design from Royal Dragonfly Book Awards 2018 (2nd Edition); Honorable Mention for Fiction: Novel from Royal Dragonfly Book Awards 2018 (2nd Edition); Honorable Mention in Young Adult from the 2013 Halloween Book Festival (1st Edition).

An Ill Wind Blows

These thirteen offbeat tales encompass an array of genres from Horror and Fantasy to Science Fiction, Historic, and Mythic under one roof. Their common theme, out-of-mind experiences, covers the macabre as easily as it applies to the spiritual or the mentally unbalanced, anger or madness. However, there is nothing common about these tales.1. UNLEASHED: TAIL ONEThere's a saying: Be careful what you say and do, because little eyes are watching you! Would the tormented pet of a psycho, after witnessing countless abominations, begin to exhibit disturbing behavior? Find out in this comical crime spree.2. BEYOND THE STUMPThe dark harrowing tale of a young woman who must assume her mother's role of Gatekeeper.3. BEDEVILEDA trail of madness featuring a parasitic ear sprite that causes folks to go berserk and the likable loons who try to halt his wacky head trip.4. HAUNTED BY HITLERThis fable solves some historic question marks by depicting a fanciful meeting between an infamous ghost and Rudolph Hess at Spandau Prison.5. THE MYTH OF THE MAYANThis whimsical fantasy posits a cultural exchange between a traveling Mayan merchant and a member of The Kumeyaay Tribe in California, leading to the spread of knowledge. Take a journey through time when fact and folklore merge to rewrite history.6. PLAYING THE GAMEA school soccer match becomes a life-or-death struggle.7. TERRORA man suspected of terrorist activities learns the meaning of fear when targeted by a serial killer.8. NUANCEA humorously poignant Cinderfella tale about a spooky carnival and a misfit who discovers the truth behind his sorry circumstances.9. THE END CHROMOSOMEThought-provoking science fiction about a potential genetic timebomb which could threaten the human race.10. PENNEDA much-rejected unknown author goes off the deep end when she's sucked inside her computer by the terror within.11. CAUSE AND EFFECTThe result of a Rube-Goldbergian nonstop chain of events.12. BAD MOODA quirky blend of humor, horror, and sci-fi myth-adventure when a mysterious mental illness affects dairy cows in a small Wisconsin town.13. THE THIRTEENTH TALEHave you ever read a story you couldn't put down? This is one those tales .

Out-Of-Mind Experiences:  Thirteen Tales

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

Daren Karl has an aversion to Halloween. When his sister asks him to take his nephew Trick-Or-Treating, he must overcome deep-rooted fears to survive a stressful night that becomes eerily familiar. The secrets of a murky past return to the surface to the point of rocking his entire existence. What is he willing to give up?From the author of THE DARK MISTER SNARK, LEERY LANE, "3-Z", "Monstrosities", AN ILL WIND BLOWS and more, "Samhain" is another treat in the bag of Halloween goodies by Lori R. Lopez. Look for her horror collection UNHALLOWED containing this tale!

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