Remember To Die

By Lori R. Lopez

Set in a bygone age at a rural abode, all sorts of occult and eccentric characters await the arrival of a Photographer to take a Family Portrait. Archibald Meem embarks on his very first Solo Assignation and finds more than he bargained for, including love . . . just a little too late.

The Victorian Era marked a distinctly unforgettable period in Western Societies on either side of The Pond — a set of values and morals that seem curious, yet still capture our fancy.

The Victorian phrase “remember to die” represents Memento Mori, a reminder that life is fleeting. Yet the bonds of Family can prove inseparable! Darling Horrensby’s pale complexion might be a Fashion Statement, or a symptom of something else.

Can a budding Romance reinvigorate the fading flower, whose Twin Sister seems to have perished? Or will Archie be forced to join his Darling on The Other Side?

Questions and quirks abound from the start in this charming Horror Comedy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lori R. Lopez
• Release date: Dec 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215833056

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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Remember To Die

by Lori R. Lopez

Fairy Fly Entertainment

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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 © 2023 by Lori R. Lopez

Artwork by Lori R. Lopez

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Remember To Die is a grim yet darkly amusing Gothic Horror Story by Lori R. Lopez, part of her Ghost Collection SPOOKTACULAR TALES.

Set in a bygone age at a rural abode, all sorts of occult and eccentric characters await the arrival of a Photographer to take a Family Portrait. Archibald Meem embarks on his very first Solo Assignation and finds more than he bargained for, including love . . . just a little too late.

The Victorian Era marked a distinctly unforgettable period in Western Societies on either side of The Pond — a set of values and morals that seem curious, yet still capture our fancy.

The Victorian phrase remember to die represents Memento Mori, a reminder that life is fleeting. Yet the bonds of Family can prove inseparable! Darling Horrensby’s pale complexion might be a Fashion Statement, or a symptom of something else.

Can a budding Romance reinvigorate the fading flower, whose Twin Sister seems to have perished? Or will Archie be forced to join his Darling on The Other Side?

Questions and quirks abound from the start in this charming Horror Comedy.

Remember To Die

It had touched him again with those familiar icy fingers around his heart. A morose pall arose, frostier, murkier than cemetery vapors seeping out of graves. Like a shroud embracing a corpse, the death of a loved one engulfed him.

But this time was different. He was in wonder at the gift bestowed when he thought the world had been pulled once more