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    Dread Unlocks
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    Dread Unlocks
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    Dread Unlocks

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    In Los Angeles, everyone knows Ms. Tarbell dispels dread. She finds an amazing amount of it in that sunlight-filled city, but nothing like the unnamed horror she faces on her current case. It arrives in a van. It has cameras, an agenda, and the ability to change her life in awful, nasty, inconceivable ways.

    First written for a Lovecraft celebration, "Dread Unlocks" reveals the creeping uncontrollable dread in modern life, a dread Lovecraft himself might find too horrible to contemplate.

    "Kristine Kathryn Rusch integrates the fantastic elements so rigorously into her story that it is often hard to remember she is not merely recording the here and now."

    —Science Fiction Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateOct 22, 2016
    ISBN9781536594140
    Dread Unlocks
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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      Dread Unlocks

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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      Dread Unlocks

      Okay, no one expects eldritch horror in LA. Not that I know what eldritch horror really is. My old boyfriend (about fifteen boyfriends back) called anything that inspired dread eldritch horror. I guess that would describe my entire job, really.

      I investigate dread, which is why my company is called Dreadlocks. Really it should be called Dread-Unlocks, but I tried that for a year, and no one understood it. Now I put up with the occasional phone call about hairstyles just so I can get customers.

      And I get those by referral. (And occasionally through my website, but that’s only a recent development, and mostly it’s because of that news story that KTLA ran over and over and over again until I thought I would go mad.)

      I got into this business accidentally—I mean who gets into dispelling dread on purpose?—and I stayed because I’m good at it. Plus there’s a lot of money in it, more than you could ever imagine.

      Here’s why: By the time folks call me, they’ve already gone through every other option. They’ve contacted the police, an attorney, a priest or other religious figure (but usually a priest), a psychic, a ghost hunter, and then, finally, me.

      I have no idea if the other folks are effective. All I know is that folks who need me see me as the bizarro hire of last resort.

      And I hate getting hired, so I always quote a price that makes people’s hair stand on end. If they can’t afford me, they either get mad and hang up (to which I say Good riddance) or they start to cry, at which point I make them come to the office. If their clothes are crap and they show up in a rattletrap car, then I don’t charge much at all, at least initially.

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