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HOMEPAGE FOR THE SUPERNATURAL FICTION OF FRANK LOPROTO
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Horror Fiction:
High Tide - A novel of horror by the sea set on Long Island
Autumn Tales - Stories of obsession and possession
Shadows on the Night - A tale of two cities shrouded in terror
Reflections on a Haunted World - A collection of stories about the world we seldom see
If you like a good scare and aren't afraid of a challenge to your way of thinking, then I have what you're looking for...
My books and stories meet the standards set for contemporary horror fiction, while presenting characters and plot lines intelligently and complexly. Whether it's the creature feature, the psychological nightmare, or the atmospheric terror, the fiction of Frank LoProto has something to offer. Give it a try and see for yourself.
Happy dreams! --- FL
Frank LoProto
Frank began writing mainly as a sideline, starting with song lyrics for which he won a Quarter-Finalist prize in a national lyric competition. He has had several short stories published in small-market genre publications and has published two novels and a compilation of short stories. His latest book, Reflections on a Haunted World, is a collection of longer stories released in October 2009.
Frank LoProto - Bio
As a child growing up on Long Island, Frank LoProto was fascinated by representations of things unusual, even bizarre. From King Kong to the Universal monsters of 1940s film legend to the early special effects sci-fi features, Frank found special joy in being frightened and awed by themes and visions beyond the scope of his familiar world. Likewise he was inspired to add to this special lore, a journey he has followed over succeeding years.
At an early age Frank turned to picture stories to capture his interests and feed his imagination. These matured into short stories, some based on those old film monsters, crafted to frighten the hapless reader. With his teens came lyric writing, sometimes in collaboration with musician friends. The American Song Festival awarded Frank a Quarter-Finalist's prize for his lyric, "The River". Whatever the mode, use of the written word to express Frank's feelings and his interests remained a potent passion.Through time Frank never lost his love of the horror genre, sampling the works of King, Koontz, and Barker, among others. He continued his own writing, enjoying modest successes in genre fiction magazines until the publication of his first novel, High Tide. High Tide was a labor of love, born of ideas and influences carried over several years and honed from short story to novella to full-length novel. Frank next worked on an anthology of stories written over time, published as Autumn Tales: Stories of Obsession and Possession. This collection summarized his fascination with the duality of existence, the mundane and familiar clouded by the mysterious and unreal. Autumn Tales enabled Frank to capture the essence of his literary journey in one volume, encapsulating ideas and notions plucked from a moonlight sky, carried on a gentle breeze.
Publication of Shadows on the Night brings special satisfaction, enabling Frank to again draw on favored influences, notably HP Lovecraft, while introducing his own unique vision. It also introduces the East Hastings mythos, a premise carried through several of Frank's stories, a running theme that anchors itself in a world of old mysteries and new terror told through the travails of the Hastings family and their mythical Long Island town. Shadows define East Hastings, culmination of a concept Frank refers to as the Haunted World, the Twilight Zone wrinkle in time and space where twin realities meet.
Reflections on a Haunted World, a compilation of long stories published in 2009, attempts to define this concept through a series of vignettes where ordinary lives touch the extraordinary, with predictably unpleasant results.