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    Spooked
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    Spooked

    By Lori R. Lopez

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    A man learns that his family’s fortune is cursed when his grandfather sends him to an old manor on a pretense. A black cat curiously enters the same house through a window. They will soon meet the resident spooks, generations of ghouls who are as stuck there as them . . . and even more unhappy. The man and the cat are used to feeling unwelcome, but this place is downright hostile! There are more than just termites lurking within these walls, and getting out alive may require some sacrifice.

    Lori R. Lopez is the author of LEERY LANE, THE DARK MISTER SNARK, AN ILL WIND BLOWS, DARKVERSE: THE SHADOW HOURS, “Old Bogey”, “The Devil’s Irony”, “The Sea Spirit” and more. Look for her ghost collection SPOOKTACULAR TALES, featuring “Spooked”!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLori R. Lopez
    Release dateJan 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310499418
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    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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      Spooked - Lori R. Lopez

      Spooked

      by Lori R. Lopez

      Fairy Fly Entertainment

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      This is a work of fiction. Any and all references to real persons, events, and places are used fictitiously. Other characters, names, places, events and details are fabrications of the author’s imagination; any such resemblance to actual places, events or persons, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2014 by Lori R. Lopez

      Artwork by Lori R. Lopez

      Cover Design by Fairy Fly Entertainment

      Author Photo by Fairy Fly Entertainment

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      More works by Lori R. Lopez

      Two unlucky individuals find themselves trapped in a haunted house, where the spirits are more than restless. They’re very disturbed.

      A man learns that his family’s fortune is cursed when his grandfather sends him to an old manor on a pretense. A black cat curiously enters the same house through a window. They will soon meet the resident spooks, generations of ghouls who are as stuck there as them . . . and even more unhappy. The man and the cat are used to feeling unwelcome, but this place is downright hostile! There are more than just termites lurking within these walls, and getting out alive may require some sacrifice.

      Lori R. Lopez is the author of Leery Lane, The Dark Mister Snark, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse: The Shadow Hours and more.

      HE CREPT THROUGH a half-open window, springing to a dusty floor, silent and cautious as a cat. Until today he had skirted this drab and treacherous domain, relying on instinct as cats tended to do. But he was curious, as cats could be, what interesting wonders might lie within. And so he entered — for curiosity will overrule instinct, as any cat can tell you.

      Right away he regretted the decision. Stupid cat! The window guillotined down and he was trapped — eyes mournful, round as milk saucers, peering up from a shadowy cell. There was no choice other

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