Loren Rhoads "Her work is arresting, haunting, unsettling and gorgeous." -- Thomas S. Roche

photo credit: Photograph by Mason Jones.

Author Biography

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.
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Influences

Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, Brian Hodge, Dion Fortune, Sherwin Nuland

Favorite Books

Tinker and Pilgrim Creek, A Natural History of the Senses, How We Die, Death to Dust, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, The Bloody Chamber, Owls Hoot in the Daytime, The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, A Clockwork Orange, The Sheep Look Up

Favorite Authors

Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, Sherwin Nuland

What I'm Reading

Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey

Web Links

Morbid Curiosity live on the radio

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues

by Loren Rhoads

Amazon.com

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Barnes & Noble

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Powell's Books

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by Loren Rhoads

September 30, 2009, 11:39 am

I'm on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm this afternoon at 4:15, chatting with DJ Stoo about all things morbid. Come hang out in the Pirate Cat Cafe at 2781 21st Street in San Francisco or listen online at http://www.piratecatradio.com.