This quirky book is filled with tales from ordinary people -- who just happen to have eccentric, peculiar interests. Ranging from the outrageous (attending a Black Mass, fishing bodies out of San Francisco Bay, making fake snuff films) to the more "mundane" (visiting a torture museum, tracking real vampires through San Francisco), this curiously enjoyable collection of stories, complete with illustrations and informative asides, will entertain and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.
For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. A collection of her favorite essays from the magazine -- called Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues -- is out from Scribner now. In addition to the magazine, Loren wrote about visiting cemeteries for Gothic.Net. Her short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, City Slab, Not One of Us, etc., and in the chapbooks Ashes & Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society. She’s written erotica for Unzipped, Sex Toy Tales, and Noirotica 4, with varying degrees of honesty. She's now part of a four-woman anthology called Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire, alongside Christa Faust, Maria Alexander, and Mehitobel Wilson.
"Loren Rhoads has a taste for the most breathtaking insights to be found in macabre topics...Her work is at once arresting, haunting, unsettling, and gorgeous." — Thomas Roche, editor of the Noirotica series.
