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Lucy Taylor is an American horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996. Her collection The Flesh Artist was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection) in 1994. Taylor's horror fictions do not usually feature supernatural elements, instead being psychological thrillers about extreme human relationships. Taylor has been called "The Queen of Erotic Horror" by Jasmine Sailing.[4] The online Locus Index to Science Fiction (published by Locus Magazine) has also categorized several of her works as "erotic horror".Original short fiction of hers appears in all five volumes of the international anthology series, Exotic Gothic. She has a B.A. in philosophy. Her early writing included non-fiction travel writing.
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An intrepid caver, determined to save the woman she loves, descends into caverns where beautiful music supposedly drives humans to insanity and violence.
A sailor abandons ship in the midst of a storm on the West African coast, only to face graver danger onshore when the woman he expects to be his saving grace ends up being his worst nightmare.
After the seas rise, food becomes scarce, prehistoric creatures return from extinction, and people evolve in horrifying ways. One girl is in love with a human man, but she worries what will come of him if they are together, secretly knowing her mutations may one day consume her and put him in danger.
A tow truck driver who is responsible for saving hikers who get lost within the Mojave desert meets an old man who challenges the nefarious deeds that the trucker commits within his job.