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    Jar Baby
    Jar Baby
    Jar Baby
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    Jar Baby

    By Lori R. Lopez

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    Roman Emperor Hadrian had a secret that he carried sealed in a jar. A young woman visiting an odd little shop that sells antiquities along with comic books learns of a curse involving Hadrian’s Jar. She and the shop’s owner must confront a vengeful spirit released from his tomb: the ghost of one very bad baby!

    Look for an illustrated print edition with artwork by the author. And Lori’s horror collection ODDS AND ENDS, containing “Jar Baby”!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLori R. Lopez
    Release dateOct 24, 2013
    ISBN9781311337740
    Jar Baby
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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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      Jar Baby - Lori R. Lopez

      Jar Baby

      by Lori R. Lopez

      Fairy Fly Entertainment

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any

      media without written permission from the author, except

      brief excerpts in critical reviews and articles.

      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 © 2013 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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      The creepy tale of a ghoulish baby by Lori R. Lopez. This short story ties in ancient history with modern horror as mummies rise up for a night of terror and fun at a museum.

      Roman Emperor Hadrian had a secret that he carried sealed in a jar. A young woman visiting an odd little shop that sells antiquities along with comic books learns of a curse involving Hadrian’s Jar. She and the shop’s owner must confront a vengeful spirit released from his tomb: the ghost of one very bad baby!

      LEGEND HAS IT, they found a worker clutching the jar . . . face contorted to a deathmask with the skin stretched so tightly there were rents in the tissue. His jaws were rigid in an unheard scream, the lower teeth bared. They whispered he was cursed. An official explanation would be filed that he was probably poisoned by gases escaping the vessel, or seeping out of the earth in which the pottery had rested for a very long time.

      Thick tomb-like silence made the statements all too real.

      It is my belief the poor man was simply frightened. Scared to death. Emerson Folly spoke in a solemn tone. That’s why it was resealed, and this symbol painted on the front, a hieroglyph cautioning that it should never again be touched. Sporting a complacent demeanor, he tapped the dull red-stained canopic jar with a finger as if poking an inert creature to see if it moved. Despite the warning, it has been opened on several occasions. And on each, the repercussions were dire!

      A natural showman at home in the spotlight, the speaker paced before a darkened auditorium. He peered at the audience, their silhouettes vague, yet he could tell they were hanging on his words like children being read to. Or hungry nestlings with beaks wide, anticipating a meal.

      His scalp gleamed. A

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