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Lou Rera

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Buffalo, The United States
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Thriller, Horror, Crime

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King, Palanhniuk, Vonnegut, Matheson, Stroud

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AWAKE: Tales of Terror by Lou Rera, a collection of short stories in the horror genre, published in May 2020. Lou Rera's first novel, SIGN , a supernatural thriller of deception and murder, published in June 2014. His collection of flash fiction stories, There are no doors on a cocoon is available through Amazon.

Lou Rera retired as Professor at SUNY Buffalo State to write full time. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) , a member of the Just Buffalo Literary Center and a member of IMDB ...more

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Lou Rera's Blog: Torment and Discovery

Welcome to a writer's blog

Please let me introduce myself. I am Lou Rera, an author of dark fiction. This is not a promo blog. I am serious about fiction, reading and the processes of writing and analysis.

So let me get to the business of what I've been up to for the last 5 months--then on to other topics!

It's was a busy summer and early fall thus far promoting my new novel SIGN. Lou Rera
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Published on October 27, 2014 21:10 • Tags: crime, dark-stories, fiction, horror, richard-matheson, stephen-king, supernatural, writing

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“It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
--Chuck Palahniuk”
― Lou Rera, SIGN
tags: crime-thriller, horror, paranormal-romance, supernatural, supernatural-crime-thrillers
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“It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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