Cornstalker

by Lori R. Lopez

Overview

Trouble with a capital C! The tale begins when a car stops and a body is tossed into the Corn. But this is not just any crop. It is the battleground of a legendary creature who haunts fields along desolate highways, only when stalks are tall and the blood of brothers has been spilled in the soil -- rising above the Corn like a burly Scarecrow. A novelette of betrayal and retribution, "Cornstalker" pits a female truckdriver and a man with blood on his hands against a mythical beast summoned by a band of men wearing feathers and paint. Jane is searching for her younger brother, who disappeared along a highway bordered by many ears. The last message on a sputtering cellphone had been something about a monster. So she took over his rig, coincidentally called "The Monster", a heavy-duty black beast with a long snout, double chrome stacks and a reinforced grill. Anxiously prowling the roads of The Cornbelt, she picks up a stranger who could be dangerous. Our heroine may need to unleash her own demons to emerge from the Corn once she goes in. First appearing in the 2014 anthology DEAD HARVEST, "Cornstalker" is part of Lori's SPOOKTACULAR TALES collection.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161920749
Publisher:	Fairy Fly Entertainment
Publication date:	10/23/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	932 KB

About the Author

Lori R. Lopez wears many hats, although at times she feels the hat is wearing her. An award-winning author of short stories, novels, novellas, verse, songs and more, she designs her own covers and illustrates nearly all of her books. When the mood strikes, she pens a humorously serious column called “Poetic Reflections” at Fairy Fly Entertainment, a website shared with her two talented sons Noél and Rafael. She grew up in Wisconsin and also lived in Hawaii, Spain, and Key West before settling in California. Vegetarian or vegan most of her life, Lori’s work is often quirky yet at times addresses more serious themes such as the rights of animals and children. Stories and verse have appeared in assorted publications including Weirdbook, The Horror Zine, Bewildering Stories, The Sirens Call, and numerous anthologies.