Interesting coincidence

Lemora is mentioned in one of the pieces in my short story collection (see my sig; the book is available at Amazon). It's the name of a writer's hometown, mentioned in a newspaper article. The next book POSTCARDS OF THE HANGING will be set largely in the fictional Missouri community and will be released this spring.

I wrote the story that mentioned this town in passing in 1999 and the novel four years later. "Lemora" is an imperfect anagram of the name of my own hometown. Only last year did I learn that three decades ago there was a movie called LEMORA, about a seductive, vicious female vampire who manipulates a teenage girl. Which is even stranger, because ALMASHEOL contains a story called "Dark Hunger" (also, as I found, the title of a book and a movie I never saw or read) about...well, a seductive, vicious female vampire who manipulates a teenage girl...and a character from "Hunger" also appears in POSTCARDS, as a boy a decade earlier.

Let this be enough to undecieve all men.



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