Little. Gory. Different.
Greetings! You've found the home page of Michael A. Arnzen.
I'm a writer -- a writer of horror stories, mostly. "Gorelets" is a term I coined for the tiny horror poems and ultrashort stories I sometimes create, but you'll find all sorts of strange and offbeat things lurking around this website...so click around and see what springs up.
I'm constantly adding new entries to my creations page, posting to my weblog and myspace site, and updating the pages listed in the columns on your left. Browse around -- you might be surprised! To keep in touch, I hope you'll subscribe to The Goreletter before you leave. It is the central hub of all of this craziness, and if you review the archives, you'll see it's a unique e-mail newsletter -- one that I treat like a creative playground for new ideas, as much as a way to share all the latest Arnzen news. The Goreletter won the Bram Stoker Award for Alternative Forms, which means it can't be half bad. Try it out.
If you've never read my work before, snoop around, see if it's your cup of tea. If you like my quirky kind of oolong, then a good place to start might be to steep yourself in one of my more recent titles. Click on a cover below to be swept over to the publisher's catalog page for the book (you can also find many of my books at your favorite bookstore, or specialty sellers like the Horror Mall, Shocklines Bookstore or Bad Moon Books):
Those creepy floating heads winking and waving at you up above are from Matt Schuster's fantastic art in my latest fiction collection, PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.
Proverbs is a career-length retrospective, featuring the "best of Arnzen" (so far). It has been released in several collector's edition and trade paperbacks from publisher Dark Regions Press. Buy your copy of Proverbs for Monsters today at the Horror Mall or directly from the publisher.
