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Gillian is left to conquer Night Frights that have terrified her since she was little. She faces her biggest challenge as she is poised to leave once and for all. Not your typical protagonist, she is whiny and self-centered from living in the shadow of a creepy old structure. All she wants at this point is to escape. Will the creatures haunting the windmill release her, or is she doomed to remain in their thrall? A suspenseful chiller, “Macabre” reminds us of those things that once caused us to hide beneath covers and shiver at the thought of them going bump in the night. This horror tale is also available in THE MACABRE MIND OF LORI R. LOPEZ collection.
Lori R. Lopez
Lori R. Lopez wears many hats as an Author and Speculative Poet of Horror, Fantasy, Suspense, Humor and more. She illustrates her books and has written songs, while being an Activist for animals and children. Growing up, Lori roamed graveyards and conducted funerals for dead birds, squirrels, insects and spiders. Her offbeat books include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse: The Shadow Hours, Odds & Ends, and The Fairy Fly. In 2023 Lori won Third Place in the Long Category for the SFPA Poetry Contest for "Wake Unto Death". Her Poetry Collection Darkverse was nominated for an Elgin Award and a Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards. Her poems "Crop Circles" and "Nocturnal Embers" were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 2020, "Social Graces" and "The Whistle Stop" in 2021, "Biting Sarcasm" in 2022, "The Whippoorwill" and "If Houses Could Talk" in 2023. Poems "The Maw" and "creatures of the macabre" received Editor's Choice Awards among other honors. Stories and verse have appeared in The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, JOURN-E, Weirdbook, Bewildering Stories, Dreams & Nightmares, Impspired, Altered Reality, Aphelion, and anthologies such as California Screamin' (the Foreword Poem), HWA Poetry Showcases II, III, V, VI, and IX, Journals Of Horror, Grey Matter Monsters, Dead Harvest, Fearful Fathoms I, Terror Train I and II, Trickster's Treats #3, Speculations III (Weird Poets Society), and In Darkness We Play. A member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and Lewis Carroll Society Of North America. Visit the Fairy Fly Entertainment Website Lori shares with her two talented sons, and their YouTube Channel @FairyFly. They have a Folk Band called The Fairyflies.
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Macabre - Lori R. Lopez
Macabre
by Lori R. Lopez
Fairy Fly Entertainment
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A young woman's dream for independence is challenged when her parents depart and she must anxiously face both days and nights of solitude. Yet she is never completely alone, for always the rickety windmill’s presence looms. And what is in the house with her, playing games, chewing the furniture? Will she ever be able to outrun the fears of childhood?
Gillian is left to conquer Night Frights that have terrified her since she was little. She faces her biggest challenge as she is poised to leave once and for all. Not your typical protagonist, she is whiny and self-centered from living in the shadow of a creepy old structure. All she wants at this point is to escape. Will the creatures haunting the windmill release her, or is she doomed to remain in their thrall? A suspenseful chiller, Macabre
reminds us of those things that once caused us to hide beneath covers and shiver at the thought of them going bump in the night. This horror tale is also available in The Macabre Mind Of Lori R. Lopez collection.
IN THE REALM of the macabre lurk many spirits, creatures known to us as Night Frights — preying upon insomniacs, restless dreamers, villains, pettier criminals, and all who dare stay up too late.
Gillian Goode was a Night Owl. It wasn’t that she couldn’t sleep or needed to keep awake. She simply hated to waste time. Detested turning in, turning off the lights. Loathed sleeping when there were so many fascinating things to be done.
That, and she was afraid of the dark.
Had been since she was a tyke. But who could blame her, living within sight and sound of