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Happy Halloween 2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN.  Here’s some new audio goodies to celebrate this crazy annual affair we call Halloween.

To start, here’s a great link to the Halloween Poetry Readings that the Science Fiction Poetry Association has collected.  They’ve posted “Halloween Costumes I Wish I Would Have Seen” — a clip from my reading event at Penn Highlands Community College (Johnstown, PA) earlier this week.  On the SFPA site, you get there are a handful of great poems there for you to trick or treat your ears with. 

Update, 2009: It’s no longer on the SFPA page, but you can listen to it here on gorelets.com:

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I’ve also uploaded a bonus audio clip from the event – my short-short story, “How to Grow a Man Eating Plant” — to myspace for a limited time.  Listen to it on the Arnzen profile page.

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Happy World Zombie Day

I found these zombies arresting, at Zombiefest 2008.

I found these zombies arresting, at Zombiefest 2008.

Zombiefest 2008 — held at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh this weekend — has so far been both fun and disturbingly surreal.  I’ve posted some photos from the first day of the dead in the gorelets.com gallery – mostly of friends in publishing, but also a few freaky shots like the one above.  Aside from crawling the mall, hanging out at my publisher‘s table and saying “Brainnns!” over and over again, yesterday I performed a fiction reading along with Ryan Mecum (author of Zombie Haiku) and Steve North (author of Dead Tide) — which you should be able to hear a podcast of soon on Library of the Living Dead – and I was also videorecorded doing another reading of weird excerpts from my “dream journal” for FearZone.com, appearing soon.  This morning portends a record-breaking “mall crawl” for World Zombie Day.



Zombiefest 08 Schedule

Some folks have been asking when I’m reading at Zombiefest this weekend, so I thought I should post a reminder here.

I’m hitting the mic today (Sat. 10/25) at 4pm, in a storefront beside the main stage (the readings will take place in a defunct Men’s Warehouse store on the first floor of the mall, right in front of Boscov’s) for the convention in the Mall.

The folks at FearZone provide a full weekend schedule.



Imaginary Anatomies

Some Imaginary Anatomies and Astonishing Somatic Illustrations:

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An Evening of Horror: Arnzen at Penn Highlands

Oct 27th, 7pm | Pennsylvania Highlands Community College | Johnstown, PA

Arnzen will read his creepy fiction and poetry at this literary event in Johnstown, PA, followed by an open mic.

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Flash Interview with The Dream People

The October issue (#30) of The Dream People magazine features a zippy little “flash interview” with myself and also one with Donna Lynch. There are also articles and stories by folks like Matt Warner and Jeremy Shipp. Recommended surrealism!

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