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The Book of Lists: Horror!

Published by Michael Arnzen in Arnzen News on July 17th, 2008

Cover for The Book of Lists: Horror

“The Book of Lists: Horror” (edited by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley) is coming soon! The cover above just went up on amazon.com and it should be an awesome collection of information, featuring lists by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Eli Roth, and many other genre greats. My list of the “Best Horror Colleges” will be there. I think this volume is not only going to be a great research tool, but an awful lot of fun. You can preorder the book on Amazon.com now!

Tags: anthologies, lists, nonfiction, releases

Dark Regions 40% Off Sale

Published by Michael Arnzen in Data+Errata on July 15th, 2008

Whoa Nelly… Dark Regions is offering 40% off when you buy a four book lot (just $39.95 + postage) from Horror Mall. You’ll get my Bram Stoker Award winning collection, Proverbs for Monsters, plus the Stoker winner for poetry, Vectors by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon, Laura Underwood‘s Song of Silver, and the AWESOME horror collection by Mark Rainey, Other Gods. That’s like getting four trade paperbacks from Dark Regions Press for the price of one hardcover…a schweet deal! Nab it.

Tags: discounts

Podcast Interview at Chronicles of the Necromancer

Published by Michael Arnzen in Arnzen News on July 12th, 2008

Gail Z. Martin, author of the Chronicles of the Necromancer series, recently interviewed me for her ongoing series of podcasts with dark fantasy, paranormal and science fiction writers. Our chatty conversation about gore, humor, death and the attraction of horror stories is now available in a podcast on Gail’s site, which presently features an all-star roster of writers, including Jeffery Thomas, Tony Ruggiero, Justin Gustainis, Alethea Kontis, and Mark Chadbourn. Gail’s latest book is The Blood King, available now from amazon.com, and her new book, Dark Haven is due soon from Solaris Books.

Topics we discuss in our interview:

fantasy vs. realism
teaching horror in the post-Virginia Tech world
literary vs. cinematic horror
death and the draw of horror in a sanitized world
the cautionary tale — then and now
optimism, humor, laughter and impalement in horror fiction

Tags: interviews, podcasts

Zombie Mall is Selling Audiovile

Published by Michael Arnzen in Arnzen News on July 12th, 2008

Zombie Mall is now selling the Audiovile CD on its all-things-undead store! They’ve got a few sample tracks posted, too, that you might enjoy…

Technically, two of the tracks on Audiovile are stories purely concerned with Zombies proper. The rest only feature a zombie percussion player who you can dimly hear in the background, tinkling the triangle and groaning for brains when my cats were out of reach from his chain.

The mall loved the CD so much they wrote a happy review of it, too. Learn all about Audiovile in the gorelets bibliography.

Tags: discounts, zombies

June Caption Contest Winners!

Published by Michael Arnzen in Data+Errata on July 12th, 2008

The latest issue of The Goreletter featured a contest with prizes for the captions rated as favorites to the following wild image by Proverbs for Monsters artist, Matt Schuster:

About forty people entered some fantastic and hilarious captions and you can read all of them under the original post for chuckles. Thanks to everyone for participating; I enjoyed all the entries. Matt and I settled on the following three for prizes:

“The Not-So-Fantastic Fifth” by Kurt Newton (prize: The B*tchfight ARC + Heaven’s Devils)

“‘Are you leaving me because I’m balding, Susan?’” by Steven Pirie (prize: Signed Licker + AoD v Reanimator)

“Sadly, Mark was asked not to participate in the Hands Across America event. President Reagan wept.” by Josh Byrnes (Artist’s prize: Schuster’s original sketch)

Congrats guys, and thanks to all who entered. More contests will be run in future issues of The Goreletter, so subscribe to the e-mail edition if you don’t want to miss another chance to win.

Finally, I want to publicly thank Matt Schuster for his generosity with this contest. He is a wonderful artist to work with, and he did such a great job with Proverbs for Monsters. I encourage everyone to check out more of Matt’s wild and wonderfully bizarro artwork at mpsindustries.com

Tags: contests, schuster

Appearances in July 2008

Published by Michael Arnzen in Arnzen News on July 6th, 2008

July 19th, 7pm | Alpha Booksigning | Barnes and Noble Bookstore | Greensburg, PA

Arnzen reading and book signing, along with sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn (known for his Star Wars books) at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Greensburg, PA. Students participating in the Alpha SF/F Workshops will be a part of this event (I’m teaching in the program this year). Free and open to the public.

UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

Aug 15-16 | HorrorFind | Adelphi, MD

Join us at Horrorfind for the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY for Raw Dog Screaming Press! I’ll be there, in addition to reading at this HUGE annual convention of horror film and fiction fans in the Baltimore region. Party details will follow; watch the Raw Dog Screaming page for updates.

Sept 26-28 | Context-21 | Columbus, OH

I’ll be running a workshop on flash fiction writing and more at this excellent literary convention in Ohio. I was Horror Guest of Honor last year at Context and loved every minute of it. Other horror fiction notables in attendance this coming year include Guest of Honor Brian Keene, Gary Braunbeck, Mike Laimo, Tim Waggoner, Paula Guran, Maurice Broaddus, Fran Friel, and Lucy Snyder.

Oct 25-26th | Zombiefest 2008 | Monroeville Mall Expo Mart, Pittsburgh, PA

It returns! And like the living dead, I, too, will be crawling back to the mall. It’s still too early to know details, but save the date, which will coincide with World Zombie Day!

Tags: appearances