Category Archives: memories

400 Days

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Loren Rhoads

The last time I left my house for more than a moment was February 23, 2020. When the San Francisco Indie UnCon finished at the Holiday Inn on the edge of Chinatown, I was already coming down with the bad … Continue reading →

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Hello from the Apocalypse

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Loren Rhoads

It was dark this morning when I woke up on the sofa. My husband came in around 8, while I was reading the news. I said, “It’s so dark this morning.” He said, “Have you seen the color of the … Continue reading →

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How are you doing?

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Loren Rhoads

Wow. Three months ago, I was really excited about 2020. I was going to sell books at all the local comic cons this year, give my cemetery postcards talk at the Gravestone Studies conference in Texas, and finish a new … Continue reading →

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Frank Langella’s Dracula

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Loren Rhoads

I discovered the novel of Dracula when I was 10. I was one of those kids who loved to watch black and white horror movies on TV on Saturday afternoons. One day my mom, a former English teacher who was … Continue reading →

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Behind “Something in the Water”

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Loren Rhoads

When my kid was a toddler, we spent hours and hours in the Academy of Sciences while it was exiled from Golden Gate Park. The museum was temporarily housed in a big warehouse south of Market Street, where I could … Continue reading →

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