Author Archives: Jennifer Loring

Full disclosure: I am a Batman nerd. I fell in love with the characters when I was 13, but as a child I was not aware of the dark places to which these characters could–and did–go. Content at the time with Jack Nicholson’s campy take on the murderous clown we all know and love asContinue reading “A World as Psychotic as This”

Joyride is my second Jack Ketchum novel, the first being The Girl Next Door. I’ve come to think of Ketchum’s writing as similar to a punch in the face–simple, brutal and effective. Despite the lurid material with which Ketchum works, despite the fact that most of it occurs “on-camera,” and despite having been considered byContinue reading “Reminding Me of Me”

Having watched Seven many times over the years, I was ecstatic to find it on the syllabus as a required text. This is a film that has haunted and inspired me for a long time. It is likely the reason that the exploration of religious themes have crept into my own work so often. And,Continue reading “The Lord Works In Mysterious Ways”

There are a lot of people who have declared that someday they’ll write a novel, implying that it requires only a little extra free time and nothing else. I hate those people, and Gregory Funaro reminds me of one of them. The Sculptor is so aggressively bad that I thought it had to be writtenContinue reading “Still Slumbering”

Stephen King’s Misery was published when I was 11. And yes, I read it that year. It was my introduction to King, and after that I began eyeballing my mother’s hardcovers of Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining with the intent of devouring them all. My mother is a writer herself, but I think myContinue reading “Misery”

I was 15 when the film version of The Silence of the Lambs was released. I loved it immediately. Anthony Hopkins completely owned the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and picked up a well-deserved Oscar in the process. From Red Dragon we have the return of the slimy Dr. Frederick Chilton, Jack Crawford still makingContinue reading “Fava Beans and A Nice Chianti”

My first reading of Red Dragon came in my teens, after having seen and then read The Silence of the Lambs. The former introduces us to the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter, here a minor character with a major influence on FBI profiler Will Graham’s life. After all, Dr. Lecter nearly killed him. In that firstContinue reading “Sympathy For the Dragon”

My novelette “This Prison of Ice and Snow” has been picked up by Wolfsinger Publications, and will be published next year as an e-book.

With a great title and promising premise, I expected Stephen Dobyns’ thriller to be just that–thrilling. Unfortunately I cannot join the choir of praise surrounding The Church of Dead Girls, because it was tedious at best, and poorly written at worst. Perhaps it’s just the terrible week I’ve had, but I utterly loathed this book.Continue reading “The Church of Dead Expectations”

My story “Balalaika” is now available in the Winter/Spring 2011 edition of PULP!, an anthology series by Twit Publishing.http://www.twitpublishing.com/CatalogWS2011.html