Unsafe Words: Stories by Loren Rhoads

In the first full-length collection of her edgy, award-winning short stories, Loren Rhoads punctures the boundaries between horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction in a maelstrom of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Ghosts, succubi, naiads, vampires, the Wild Hunt, and the worst predator in the woods stalk these pages, alongside human monsters who follow their cravings past sanity or sense. The stories have come from the pages of the magazines Cemetery Dance, City Slab, Instant City, and Space & Time, the Wily Writers podcast, and the books Sins of the Sirens, Demon Lovers, The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two, Tales for the Camp Fire, and more.

From the Inside Flap

"With Unsafe Words, Loren Rhoads has created a lyrical kaleidoscope of a collection, whose shifting genres reveal ever-evolving visions of shining beauty and immense darkness. I loved it." -- Brian Hodge, author of The Immaculate Void and Skidding Into Oblivion"Loren Rhoads is the writer you want to hold your hand on the long, strange walk into hell." -- Meg Elison, author of the Road to Nowhere series"Loren Rhoads's work is at once arresting, haunting, unsettling, and gorgeous. Her stories are all the darker for being deeply human and more profoundly human in their darkness."--Thomas S. Roche, author of Dark Matter"Rhoads has a gift. She takes you deep and, when you come out on the other side, you're just glad you're still alive." -- J. Scott Coatsworth, Captain Awesome of Queer Sci Fi

From the Back Cover

"If you're already familiar with Loren's work, you know that you're in for an evocative, rich mélange. If you're just now discovering her...prepare yourself and dig in. Leave your preconceptions and expectations right here, and step boldly into Loren's incredible, beautiful world. Just don't be surprised if your own world looks a little different when you get back."--Lisa Morton, in her introduction

About the Author

Loren Rhoads is the author of In the Wake of the Templars, a space opera trilogy, and co-author of the As Above, So Below series with Brian Thomas. Unsafe Words is her newest book.

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