Jody R Lagreca

In the dead of winter an isolated farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania becomes the setting of classic horror with a grisly edge. Fifty-year-old Richard Handler is a charming man with a dark side. Richard meets Christine Adams, a beautiful thirty-year-old blonde, in a shelter for battered women where she is hiding out from her ex-husband, Rex. Richard invites her to stay at his family farmhouse set on 250 acres until she becomes stabilized enough to be on her own. He ultimately charms Christine into getting married and they now have a baby on the way. Then during the most brutal winter in Wyoming since 1900, Richard's abusive mother, Claire Handler, invades their love nest when she unexpectedly moves back home after being released from Twin Oaks asylum after a nervous breakdown. Claire is critical, overbearing, highly medicated and impossible to live with. Old anger spirals out of control, dark secrets are revealed and the consequences that unravel are unparalleled in WINTER HORRORLAND.

LOVE EDWARD is a timeless love story about the challenges of marriage that captures the heart. The story of Juliet and Drew Brock draws upon the universal temptations of wealth and passion that plague marital relationships, while simultaneously celebrating the human spirit. Juliet and Drew go to their Hamptons summer home to celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary when an argument causes Juliet to storm out. Drew chases after her to make amends, only to witness someone drowning. Drew risks his life to save Tammy Blake.Now a hero, Drew is drawn into a friendship with the young widow whose powerful bond risks alienating his wife. Juliet feels compromised by the self indulgent lifestyle of South Hampton, where wealth and passion are exploited. The couple's second honeymoon weekend is in jeopardy when Juliet and Drew are faced with the truth about their marriage and the dark secrets that threaten to destroy it.

With a bundle of roses in one hand and a walking cane in the other, an elderly gentleman, Lawrence Gray braves the New England winter as he makes his way to Saint James Cemetery. There, he offers the flowers to his fallen wife, who passed away forty years ago.Lawrence's devotion to his long-dead wife elicits curiosity from Meg Bailey, an intrigued neighbor who spies on him from her kitchen window every morning. Meg's curiosity hits a peak when town historian, Fanny Brund, invites her for afternoon tea, and tells her about the mystery surrounding the Grays.Looking for more answers, Fanny warps back to the year 1895 in a bid to uncover the truth behind Lawrence Gray's guilt over his wife's untimely death - only to unravel a secret that will change Meg's life forever. . .

Jody R. LaGreca gives us a stark and honest look into the twisted life of a young prostitute and the married man who falls in love with her in FLESHPOT. Bordellos breed more than intimacy between strangers when obsessive love becomes the desire. Client Ray Brent falls in love at first sight with Maria Cezaro, a beautiful eighteen-year-old prostitute, who works in her mother Madame Colette's bordello in Spanish Harlem. The wealthy furrier takes a fostering role in Maria's life, in the hope of purifying her and teaching her the meaning of love. He offers Maria the position of companion for his dying wife in his opulent Sand's Point, Long Island estate, when in truth - Ray is grooming Maria as his future wife - aware his wife Elizabeth will soon be dead. In the meantime, Ray frequents the bordello in a twisted morality. Discover what happens when an ethically twisted plan clashes with one driven by virtue in FLESHPOT.

As a natural born poet since the age of seven, Jody LaGreca has a deep affinity for poetic form and dark fiction. GOTHIC TALES contains an assortment of Narrative Poems that flow like the storybook from hell. The poems are literary, sophisticated, forthright and gruesomely picturesque at times. The book is divided into five parts; the first section contains vampire poems that are gory yet evocative, with darkly romantic blood drinking, and tongue and cheek scenarios. Part Two is comprised of Halloween horror with the wiles of witches and the haunting of ghosts, who steal our dreams and waking hours. Part Three is hauntingly gruesome, involving thought provoking scenarios straight from the underworld. Part Four contains sagas involving death and threat. Part Five showcases an ensemble of graveside scenarios and the eeriness of reality. GOTHIC TALES is for lovers of the macabre and unexpected with an ironic twist to incite and inspire.Acclaim for GOTHIC TALES: "As I read GOTHIC TALES by Jody R. LaGreca, I imagined the author, draped in a black silk cape, writing these poems with a raven's quill under a full moon. The tone is lush, darkly romantic, and filled with macabre exuberance. Be sure to pick up a bottle of red wine to sip while you're reading this deliciously Gothic collection "-- Mark McLaughlin, Bram Stoker Award winner for Best Poetry Collection"Jody R. LaGreca's Gothic Tales is a great collection of ballads: an equal mixture of the macabre and the beautiful. If you have ever felt the itch to read poetry out loud by candle light, while the wind howls outside your window, Gothic Tales is the collection for you."--Michael Walker, Author of "The Vampire Henry""Close your eyes and let Jody LaGreca lead you through the dark maze of Gothic Tales: Dark Poetry. It doesn't matter what strange and scary creatures you'll encounter on this darkly surreal sojourn: headless henchmen, hiding ghosts, flying witches, thirsty vampires, ghouls with golden teeth, screams or silence, skeletons or in the flesh, because along the way, Jody LaGreca whispers elegant words in your ear, encouraging you to journey into the dark places that chill your bones. Highly recommended " --Michael McCarty, 5-Time Bram Stoker Finalist and author of Modern Mythmakers, A Little Help From My Fiends and co-author of Dracula Transformed and Lost Girl of The Lake

Traditional poetry is an ancient art with the power to draw one inward and heal their emotions. "Song of the Sea" was inspired by "The Rub iy t" by Persian poet, Omar Khayyam (1048-1131). This poetry book also has a subliminal inspiration. I later learned "Song of the Sea" is also known as Song of Moses, a poem that appears in Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It was reputedly sung by the Israelites as they safely crossed the Red Sea. Like "The Rub iy t" "Song of the Sea" is written in quatrains with the quest of evoking a parallel in time by channeling the power of the past in present day. These verses have a meditative quality which is beneficial to read aloud or silently to oneself. The beauty of this formula is the way each stanza relates to the spirit of the reader and becomes unique to their life experiences. It is a journey inward to uncharted territories of the soul. No matter what your faith, whether you live near the beach or faraway I hope "Song of the Sea" will beckon you with the ocean's timeless beauty and solace. Also included is a poem titled "Will of the Soul" that expresses the depth and beauty of the soul. "Song of the Sea" by Jody R. LaGreca will move your soul after reading. Move it deeply, stirring it for several hours and days after reading this beautifully written collection. Highly, highly recommended." --Michael McCarty, Author, Bram Stoker Finalist for Poetry Bookco-written with Mark McLaughlin (Bram Stoker Winner)

Psychic vampire, Daniel Peck, lives on with vengeance and movie star madness in this sequel to BLOODLESS by Michael McCarty (Bram Stoker finalist) and Jody R. LaGreca. Witness the illicit saga which leads to Marilyn Monroe's untimely demise and more in this twisted tale of glamour and seduction. Beware of kisses in the dark and the echo of eternity - which bears the curse of Daniel. Uncover the mystery of The Stardust Inn and the love triangle between Daniel, hotel proprietor, Annie Julliard, and her sister Vicki - while the Omni powerful Veronica, who has Daniel beneath her spell, has her own agenda.Meanwhile, FBI agent, Ronald Barrett, has been chasing Daniel down for over three decades for slaughtering his mother. Not your cookie cutter vampire tale, BLOODLUST is infused with horror, history and romantic suspense. It will illuminate your senses and take you to uncharted worlds beyond the imagination.

Set on Long Island, New York, the young and beautiful Camille Casey regains her senses, only to find herself stripped in her bedroom, oblivious she had been violated. The slick, forty-year old Raphael Manex, insists he undressed her because she was sweating profusely. Their association begins when Camille comes across the engagement announcement of Raphael Manex and Tasha Brookes, her former best friend, who seduced and stole her high school sweetheart. In a ploy for revenge Camille lures Tasha's fianc to her house to buy estate jewelry. Camille's scheme becomes complicated when she falls in love at first sight with the handsome Raphael and he entices her into a carnal obsession. A haunting tone is set when Camille meets Marianne Franz, a lonely, old widow who hires her to do odd jobs. Let the game of betrayal, revenge, passion and exploitation begin as you flick through the pages of SEDUCTION.

Bloodless contains actual historical events infused with fiction. Modern-day vampire, Daniel Peck, succumbs to his transformation on the Lusitania when the beautiful and ancient Veronica, Queen of the Undead, beguiles him. Daniel survives when the ocean liner is sunk by the Germans in 1915, and when the Hindenburg explodes in 1937. Years later Daniel is a substitute teacher in Baltimore, Maryland. He feeds off the energy of four students and turns them into zombie-like creatures, who subsist on human remains. Daniel frequents The Stardust Inn for more carnage. He changes lovely motel proprietor, Annie Julliard, into a blood drinker. Annie vows to be a white vampire, who does only for the good. Daniel marries Annie and brings home the thralls as his adopted children. From then on, things become very complicated ...Dark, exotic, macabre and spellbinding, Bloodless enters another dimension where history, vengeance and eroticism exceed the limits ...