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Stories and essays available online:
Hear Loren read her true story "The Ghost of Friends" on
Jennifer's Ghost.
Read "Curiosity and the Cat" at Cemetery Travel. My first visit to a graveyard in Japan.
Hear "Valentine" on Wily Writers. Alondra travels to Oslo to save her guardian's life -- at the cost of Simon's.
Available now from Ravenous Romance:
DEMON LOVERS, an anthology of erotica about
succubae and incubi which includes stories by Ray Garton, Inara LaVey, Kilt Kilpatrick,
Elizabeth Black, Angela Cameron, Olivia Cunning, Lisa Lane, Courtney Sheets, Kat Sheridan,
and Loren Rhoads.
DEMON LOVERS features a new Lorelei story by Loren called "Never Bargained for You."
Available now from Dark Arts Books: SINS OF THE SIRENS features new stories and rarities by Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, Loren Rhoads, and Mehitobel Wilson. The anthology contains 20,000 words of fiction from each author.
"There is a level of deeply honest eroticism and fantasy to these stories that you seldom see in fiction. These aren't stories for the faint of heart." - David Niall Wilson, Macabre Ink
The second edition of The Paramental Appreciation Society's self-titled chapbook was published by Automatism Press in October 2008. The chapbook collects four previously unpublished dark urban fantasies by Seth Lindberg, Claudius Reich, Loren Rhoads, and Lilah Wild. Join us for an ad hoc tour of San Francisco's odd and unnatural corners.
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"The Paramental Appreciation Society may mean more to residents of San Francisco, but as someone who has visited only once, I found this chapbook engaging, literate, and wholly worthwhile." - The Fix
Ashes & Rust, a chapbook containing four previously published post-apocalyptic
stories by Loren Rhoads, was published by Automatism Press in October 2005. It includes the stories "Mothflame," "Justice," "Fitzgerald's Shadow," and "The Acid that Dissolves Images."
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"Her chapbook Ashes & Rust was just wonderful. She reminded me that I enjoy science fiction. I'd forgotten! And, wow, can she ever write it!" - Maria Alexander
Selected Fiction
"Never Bargained for You," DEMON LOVERS (Ravenous Romance), January 2012.
"Catalyst," Not One of Us #44, October 2010. An Alondra story set in Prague about absinthe and
alchemy.
"Valentine," podcast on Wily Writers, September 2010. An Alondra story set in Oslo about the lengths we go to for love.
"The Angel's Lair," SINS OF THE SIRENS: FOURTEEN TALES OF DARK DESIRE (Dark Arts Books), January 2008. The initial Lorelei story.
"Still Life with Shattered Glass," SINS OF THE SIRENS: FOURTEEN TALES OF DARK DESIRE (Dark Arts Books), January 2008. This is the first publication of the full version. A truncated version originally appeared in Cemetery Dance #54, March 2006.
"Sound of Impact," SINS OF THE SIRENS: FOURTEEN TALES OF DARK DESIRE (Dark Arts Books), January 2008.
"Last-Born," SINS OF THE SIRENS: FOURTEEN TALES OF DARK DESIRE (Dark Arts Books), January 2008. Initially appeared in THE GHOSTBREAKERS: NEW HORRORS (RAGEmachine Books), May 2005. This is an Alondra story set in New Orleans about motherhood and sacrifice.
"The Fox and the Foreigner," Not One of Us #38, October 2007. Long-listed for the British Science Association Award, January 2008. An Alondra story set in Tokyo about being a gaijin.
"Affamé," City Slab #10, July 2007. Erotic horror set in San Francisco.
"The Shattered Rose," The Paramental Appreciation Society chapbook, published by Borderlands Books, March 2007. Reprinted by Automatism Press, October 2007. An Alondra story set in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
"The Energizer Bunny Keeps Going and Going," Instant City #4, February 2007.
"Fitzgerald's Shadow," Nice Tattoo: The Magazine of Shadow Fiction #1, May 2006. Reprinted from Indigenous Fiction #8, July 2001. It appears in the chapbook Ashes & Rust (Automatism Press, 2005).
"The Magic of Fire and Dawn," Eternal Night, August 2003. Reprinted
from Beyond Science Fiction and Fantasy #18, October 1990.
"Justice," Blood Rose, April 2003. It was reprinted in the chapbook Ashes & Rust (Automatism Press, 2005).
"His Love Don't Cost a Thing," Unzipped Monthly, January 2002.
"Mothflame," Not One of Us #25, March 2001. It was reprinted in the chapbook Ashes & Rust (Automatism Press, 2005).
"Just Another Day in Paradise," with Mart J. Allard and Brian Thomas,
Tales of a New Republic, volume 3: Battles, May 1997.
"The Acid that Dissolves Images," LEND THE EYE A TERRIBLE ASPECT
(Automatism Press), March 1994. It was reprinted in the chapbook Ashes & Rust (Automatism Press, 2005).
Selected Travel Essays
"Feeling Alive on the Day of the Dead," about the Dia de los Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever, Cemetery Travel, November 1, 2011.
"Thoughts from the World Trade Center, April 2002," about Ground Zero in Manhattan, Red Room, September 9, 2011.
"Curiosity and the Cat," about visiting the cemetery and the Kannon Shrine in Kamakura, Japan, Cemetery Travel, March 17, 2011.
"With Folded Wings," about Valhalla Memorial Park's Shrine to Fallen Aviators, appeared in the AGS Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2010.
"Not Fade Away," about my visit to Jack London's grave, appeared in Eleven Eleven, August 2010.
"A Cemetery that Once Rivaled Niagara Falls," about my visit to Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, appeared on Morbid Outlook, April 2009.
"San Francisco: Crimes Seen," 12 reasons why crime and entertainment meld in my hometown, Instant City #5, November 2007. Reprinted from the Spooky Con booklet, January 2003 and Trips #12, March/April 2000.
"City in Amber," an exploration of Pompeii, Morbid Curiosity #10, May 2006.
"Days of Infamy," comparing visits to the Peace Museum in Hiroshima to
the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Morbid Curiosity #8, May 2004.
"Anarchy in Calaveras County," PILLS, THRILLS, CHILLS, AND
HEARTACHE: ADVENTURES IN THE FIRST PERSON, edited by Clint Catalyst
and Michelle Tea (Alyson Books), February 2004.
"Florence's 'English' Cemetery," Official Newsletter of the Horror Writers
Association #14, August 2003.
"Cautionary Tale," about the graveyard at the Tule Lake Internment
Camp," Enterrupted #3, February 2003. Reprinted from Gothic.Net,
September 2000.
"Where does One Start?" about visiting London's Highgate Cemetery,
AGS Quarterly: Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone
Studies, November 2002. Excerpted from Gothic.Net, January 2000.
"Love for Rent," about Tokyo love hotels, Trip Lit, October 2002.
"A Restless Wind is Blowing through Highgate," about the Highgate
Vampire, DarkEcho.com, August 2002. Reprinted from Gothic.Net,
October 2001.
"When You're Strange," about wandering around Amsterdam at night,
Trip Lit, June 2002.
"Young Souls and Old Stones," about the Old City Cemetery in
Sacramento, California, on the Stones CD (Lone Wolf Publications),
February 2002.
"Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder," about drinking absinthe in
Prague, Trips #16, November 2001.
"The Empire of Death," about the Paris Catacombs, Azrael Project
Newsletter, Fall 1998. Reprinted from TRAVELERS' TALES: PARIS, March
1997.
"Mother's Day in Jawbone Canyon," about meeting a rattlesnake in the
Mojave Desert, The Collective Cauldron #1, October 1998.
"Going In" about the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome, TRAVELERS' TALES:
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1996.
"Unholy Obsession" about visiting cemeteries, DEATH'S GARDEN:
RELATIONSHIPS WITH CEMETERIES (Automatism Press), January 1996.
"Let's Trip! San Francisco: Golden Gate Park After Dark" Browbeat #1,
Fall 1993.
Selected Personal Essays
"Weekly Photo Challenge: Family," about my grandmother's gravestone, Cemetery Travel, December 1, 2011.
"Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset," about ghost hunting in Mountain View Cemetery, Cemetery Travel, October 4, 2011.
"Reading in Public is the Best Way to Connect," about reading from Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues and the AIDS epidemic, Red Room, September 22, 2011.
"Late night talk about the reality of vampires," about Morbid Curiosity and my daughter, Red Room, September 16, 2011.
"No Spill Blood," about working in a vivisection lab,
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, September 2009.
"The Mortician's Gift," about the great people I met through the magazine,
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, September 2009.
"The Morbid Curiosity Open Mic," World Horror Convention program
booklet, May 2006.
"Dead Bodies Everywhere," meditation on the Body Worlds exhibit,
Morbid Curiosity #9, 2005.
"The Ritual of the Black Sun," about a Samhain Ball Dance ritual, Chaotic
Order #16, Winter 2004. Reprinted from Cyber-Psychos AOD #8, August
1998.
"Asking for It," about the most morbid story ever offered to Morbid
Curiosity, Zine World #9, Summer 2003.
"Death in Four Flavors," about my second experience with cadavers,
Chaotic Order #14, November 2002. Reprinted from Tail Spins #34, January
2002.
"Anatomy Lesson," about my first day in the cadaver lab at Humboldt
State University, Chaotic Order #13, May 2002. Reprinted from Morbid
Curiosity #2, August 1998.
"Bite They Tiny Heads Off," ode to a dead mouse, Enterrupted #2,
September 2001.
"Mirrors in Three Dimensions," about Japanese doll-makers, Ongaku
Otaku #4, June 2001.
"Life Lessons from the Museum of Death," Morbid Curiosity #5, May
2001.
"Color Me Thrilled," about getting tattooed, Unzipped, March 2001.
"Mortuary Science for the Absolute Beginner," Azrael Project Newsletter,
July 2000. Reprinted from Morbid Curiosity #1, 1996.
"The Only Thing I Can Do," about my friend Blair's illness, Jane online,
May 2000.
"Burning Desire," tour of the Neptune Society crematorium, Blue Plains,
May 2000. Reprinted from Morbid Curiosity #1, 1996.
"Blood Rite," about donating blood, Morbid Curiosity #4, May 2000.
"Ghost of Friends," about my friend Blair's ghost, Bloodreams,
November 1999.
"Female Bonding: Christine's First Piercing," Gothik Voluptuary #3, July
1999. Reprinted from File 13 #12, Spring 1992.
"Object of Desire," SEX TOY TALES (Down There Press), edited by Anne Semans and Cathy
Winks, February 1998. Reprinted from Good
Vibrations' 20th anniversary commemorative booklet Sex Toy Tales,
March 1997.
Selected Reviews
Book reviews of "BRAVING HOME: DISPATCHES FROM THE UNDERWATER TOWN, THE LAVA-SIDE INN,
AND OTHER EXTREME LOCALES," "FORGOTTEN FACES: PHOTO-CERAMIC MEMORIAL PORTRAITS - A WINDOW INTO OUR
IMMIGRANT PAST,"
"MONUMENT BUILDERS: MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND DEATH," "THE PHYSICIAN'S
ART: REPRESENTATIONS OF ART AND MEDICINE," and "STORIES IN STONE: A FIELD
GUIDE TO CEMETERY SYMBOLISM AND ICONOGRAPHY," Morbid Curiosity #9, May
2005.
"The Return of Don't Go to the Graveyard without Me,"
recommendations of cemetery books for holiday shoppers, Gothic.Net,
November 2002.
"Chew on This," a taste-test of Japanese chewing gum, Ongaku Otaku
#4, June 2001.
"Moonlight Whispers" reviewed on J-Pop.com, November 2000.
"Revenge," a review of THE EAT-A-BUG COOKBOOK and tasting, Morbid
Curiosity #4, May 2000.
"The Laserium of Sound," a travel essay about San Francisco's Audium,
Cyber-Psychos AOD #9, September 1999.
"Taste and Aroma so Gentle," a taste test of Japanese candy, Ongaku
Otaku #3, August 1998.
"Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence" show at San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Morbid Curiosity #2, August 1998.
"Coffee in a Can," a taste test of Japanese iced coffees, Ongaku Otaku
#2, March 1997.
Japanese Underground Cinema reviews of "Gunhed," "Tetsuo: The Iron
Man," and "Tetsuo 2: The Body Hammer," for Ongaku Otaku #1, June
1995.
"Animal Snuff Films," in Browbeat #1, Fall 1993.
Selected Poetry
"Correspondence" presented at the 90th birthday gala of Hilda Angerer
Allen, Flushing, Michigan, July 2001.
"Vicious Circle" used as lyrics by Trance on the Mind/Body double CD
(Atomic Records), April 1994. Also on the re-released highlights CD of
the same name (Fifth Column Records), 1995.
"Transubstantiation" used as lyrics by Trance on The Beaten Track
cassette (Charnel House Productions), Summer 1989.
Selected Interviews
"Stalking the Subconscious: the Art of Christopher Bales," Cyber-Psychos AOD #10, January 2002.
"Bodily Humours: An Interview with M. Parfitt," Cyber-Psychos AOD #9,
September 1999.
"Smiling at Death: The Fine Art of Mary Jo Bole," Morbid Curiosity #2,
August 1998.
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