Lori Safranek

Lori Safranek's Freaked Out series takes a creepy look at life in the circus sideshow. Freakshow: The Complete Freaked Out Series compiles all six stories. Marie, the tale of the Fat Lady in the sideshow, was the first book in the series, followed up with Mesmer, a hypnotist gone bad. Lily Dean explores the life of a snake charmer with special skills. Smudge is about a tattooed man whose tattoos have a mind of their own! Blade is a sword swallower plagued by a poltergeist and Omega is the final freak, a twisted contortionist who brings chaos to the Freak Show.

Lori spent several years as a newspaper reporter in Nebraska before deciding to try her hand at fiction writing. In addition to her Freaked Out series, she contributed to the anthologies Simple Things, Final Masquerade, Dead Harvest, Fifty Shades of Decay: Zombie Erotica, Cellar Door II; and Slaughter House: Serial Killer Edition; and had a story published in Tim Baker's novel Unfinished Business. She also has had stories published in the Sirens Call Women in Horror Annual ezine publication.

Lori lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and two dogs. She can be found on Facebook at Author Lori Safranek.