Loren Rhoads

The 2009 Bram Stoker Awards for horror literature have some incredible nominees on this year's ballot!

Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan for Superior Achievement in a Novel; The Black Act by Louise Bohmer for Superior Achievement in a First Novel; Blanket of White by Amy Grech for Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction; Poe and Lovecraft Unbound, both edited by Ellen Datlow for Superior Achievement in a Anthology; and Morbid Curiosity Sings the Blues edited by Loren Rhoads for Superior Achievement in a Nonfiction are all contenders.

For 10 years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity which published true confessions of the strange and unusual kind.

Now, a collection some of the best essays she hand-picked herself, called Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual, is due from Scribner Press on September 29, 2009! It will feature 40 nonfiction essays from the ten issues of Morbid Curiosity magazine with subjects like 'road kill', 'blood drinking' 'creepy dolls' 'voodoo' and even 'zombie salmon'. Check out the book's trailer...

Featuring stories by: Loren Rhoads, Maria Alexander, Mehitobel Wilson, and Christa Faust
2008, Dark Arts Books

Horror and erotica go together quite a bit in this genre (that being, 'horror') but sometimes erotica can miss out on one of the most important parts of what is sexy: desire. These stories are not about cold or nameless desire, poetry, or making the disgusting palatable. They're about some very real people (most of them women) who crave love, flesh, and other less normal aspects of human sexuality. The authors of Sins of the Sirens have gone out of their way to write stories that are not the usual fare in horrorotica. In fact, some of the stories hardly qualify as horror, being more like series of one-act dramas, albeit with a dark slant. Rarely does the supernatural rear its head, (it does in a few, like Rhoads Last Born and The Angel's Lair) Sins deals mostly with relatable characters and fetishes...