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Posted 21 June 2009 in Arnzen Creations

Skull Fragments

Les Perseides, 2009

Skull Fragments (2009)

Chapbook

BILINGUAL EDITION: FRENCH & ENGLISH

Translation by Jerome Charlet from the original serial story in 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories.

Art bref chapbook from Les Perseides

(May 2009)

Bilingual Softcover Chapbook | 6 EUROS | ISBN: 978-2-9155-9662-5

Order from:

• Amazon France
• La Librairie (France)
• alapage.com (France)
• Chapitre.com (France)
• Ellipse Librairie (Switzerland)
• Libreria Francese (Italy)

Related reading: About the publisher, Les Perseides

REVIEWS:

"« Skull Fragments » est un petit bijou à consommer sans modération ! C’est court, fort, terrible, mais qu’est-ce que c’est bon!" ['Skull Fragments'” is a small gem to be consumed without moderation! It is short, strong, terrible, but what you get is good!"] -- YoZone: Le Cyberespace de l'imaginaire

"Ce texte est une petite bombe d’horreur subtile et multiple, qui implique le narrateur et le lecteur. Treize crânes racontent une histoire, celle qui est peinte sur eux...J’ai apprécié un texte original et vous le conseille vivement." ["This text is a small bomb of subtle and multiple horrors, which implicates the narrator with the reader. Thirteen craniums tell the history that is painted on them...I appreciate an original book and I advise it highly to you."] -- Délices & Daubes

Skull Fragments (2009)

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+++ Books / ProverbsForMonsters +++

Posted 3 June 2009 in Arnzen Creations

PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS

Dark Regions Press, 2007

Proverbs for Monsters (2007)
Cover Art by Matt Schuster'

Collection

Description: NEW Full-length collection of the best short horror stories and poems of Arnzen's career so far.

THREE Editions:

• Signed trade paperback, approx 300 pages
  ISBN: 1888993545 ($19.99)
• Limited Editions
  Hardcover: 100 signed/numbered hardcover editions; ISBN: 1888993529 ($40)
  Slipcased Leatherbound: 26 signed/lettered editions ($125)

Highlights	BRAM STOKER AWARD Winner for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
	Features tales selected for THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES and also Rhysling Poetry Award nominees

Cover and Interior Illustrations by Matt Schuster

Order from:

• Horror Mall
• Publisher: Dark Regions Press
• Amazon.com
• Camelot Books
• Realms of Fantasy Books
• Genre Mall
• Ziesing Books
• Shocklines
• The Overlook Connection

Contents:

FICTION

• Domestic Fowl
• Exorcystland
• How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant
• Mr. Mouth
• The Boblin
• People Repellent
• Help Yourself (co-written with Mark McLaughlin)
• The Cow Café
• Immaterial Girl
• Mortichinery
• Fluid Mosaic
• The Blood Ran Out
• Flunking the Assassin
• An Eye for an Eye
• Stretch
• Stabbing for Dummies (co-written with Vincent W. Sakowski)
• The Dead Lantern
• Tugging the Heartstrings
• Counterpoint
• You're Not Getting Sleepy
• Imaginary Trivia
• Throb (co-written with Mark McLaughlin)
• Voodoo Movie Trilogy
• How to Put a Cat to Sleep
• Spring Ahead, Fall Back
• Screwy Louis
• Obictionary
• The Involunteer
• Stress Toy

POETRY

from Proverbs for Monsters (2007)
Interior illo by Matt Schuster

• Proverbs for Monsters
• The Scab
• Unhinged
• Not the Reaper
• Rigormarole
• Fuzzy Bunnies
• Driving the Sick Elephant
• Kids Watch in Horror as Clown Chokes to Death on Balloon!
• Wicked Wickets
• Brazilian Night
• Writhe
• Slay Pen
• grenemean
• Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover that Zombies had Taken Over the Planet
• Halloween Costumes I Wish I Would Have Seen
• Boy's Heart is on the Outside of His Body
• Laps
• Six Short Films About Chauncey the Serial Killer
• muscle boy
• T-shirt Twirling Red Under Black Tires
• Everfoetal
• Woman, 36, Raped by Teen She Saved from Drowning
• the oral surgeon removes his mask
• The Rub
• Zombeanie Babies
• The Gentlest Monster
• Nightmarried
• In the Box
• Needle Baby
• Resuscitation
• Woman Marries a Shark
• Heartfelt
• Why Zombies Lumber

Praise/Reviews:

"A diverse, amusing, and uniformly well written selection....Arnzen will have broad general appeal, and many of his stories are excellent...well worth your while and deserves to be an award contender." -- Don D'Ammassa, Critical Mass

"Arnzen takes his readers on a guided tour of insanity and the macabre, with a few moments of touching grace combined with repulsive terror. This collection gives the reader a chance to watch Arnzen's growth as a writer over nearly two decades. And, if anything, those seventeen years have made him better than ever....Proverbs for Monsters does not disappoint...this book serves to document the evolution of a great writer." -- Scott Johnson, Dread Central

"In a little over a decade, Michael A. Arnzen has achieved what few writers manage in a lifetime. He has become the master of a brand of literature that is uniquely his own, and I do not doubt that his approach to horror will soon (if it has not already) be referred to as 'Arnzenian.' When you begin an Arnzen story, you embark on a journey where the old maps do not apply. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory, barreling through landscapes more fascinating and twisted than any previously encountered. Be assured, you will be amazed, startled, amused, and creeped out along the way, but whatever the road has in store, you will not be able to stop reading until the story ends. Horrifying, captivating, ironic -- Arnzenian! -- the works of Michael A. Arnzen are in a class all their own. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" -- Lawrence C. Connolly, author of Veins

"Mr. Arnzen has been crafting some of the most gleefully vicious and original horror stories ever printed...I urge you to grab a copy of this collection, which features the full range of this author's wild imagination in poetry and prose. [Proverbs for Monsters] is crazy good horror with a sense of humor that leaves the reader with a nervous smile and a sense of unease." -- JL Comeau, Creature Feature

"Deliciously bizarre short stories and poems...Arnzen knows how to spin an original, terrifying bedtime story. At his best, his imaginative style makes him an entertaining guide, capable of clever wordplay that leaves teethmarks. It's clear his writing picks up steam when he takes a few pages to flesh out his fables, waxing inventively..." -- Rue Morgue

Buy Now at Dark Regions Press

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