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Holiday Round-Up

Published by Michael Arnzen in Arnzen News on December 23rd, 2011
The Baled Gift

Happy Holidays!

 

Happy Holidays!

I’ve been extremely busy on many fronts, personal and professional — and now that I’m on a brief holiday break, I’m catching up with obligations and promises.  I plan to get the next issue of The Goreletter out soon, but for now I thought I’d give everyone a quick round-up of what’s happening in Arnzenland lately:

  • Big news:  The Gorelets Omnibus is scheduled for a January 2012 release!  If you preorder a copy directly from Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my other books, 100 Jolts & Play Dead), you’ll get a free collector’s item! Get the hardcover — it’s got a lot of bonus material and is so worth it.
  • I started keeping a journal at the innovative creative non-fiction site, cowbird.com.  I’m trying to keep it focused on authentic observations, but with an emphasis on the weird, uncanny, and overlooked as much as I can. Drop by, encourage me, and I’ll keep it up.
  • A new overview page that lists all the social networking sites I’m a part of is now up at michaelarnzen.com  Please feel free to friend and follow in a frenzy.
  • This website was injected with a malicious code last month and I’ve been quite busy rebuilding much it from scratch.  It was time to purge and renew anyway, and I like how it’s turning out.  But several links — especially to material from my gallery and bibliography pages — are now broken and I’m still recreating a page dedicated to my books and other horror creations.  If you’re here shopping or researching horror, please head on over to my profile page on amazon.com for the time being.
  • If you’re a writer, don’t overlook the book I c0-edited that was released a few months back: Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction.  It was listed by The Writer magazine as one of the top ten “terrific writing books of 2011″ and also was a finalist in the USA Best Books Awards.  Read the MGOC blog to learn more.
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“Dear Santa”: The Lost 1989 Manuscript

Published by Michael Arnzen in Weblog Exclusive on December 19th, 2010

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Against my better judgment, for a gift I give you this Christmas story — “Dear Santa” — a long lost manuscript of the very first horror story I ever sold (to GAS magazine in 1989), but which ultimately never saw print. On the one hand, this is old and amateur enough to be most embarrassing. On the other hand, I think I’ve made a career of embarrassing myself. Enjoy?

“Dear Santa” – a lost 1989 manuscript by Michael Arnzen

(If you cannot read the above, see if you can click on the “view fullscreen” link at the top of the reader. Or just head on over to scribd.com, a neat site for document sharing that I have just joined. Comments, “follows” and offers to buy my old manuscripts for heaps of gold bullion are always more than welcome!)

Have a great holiday season…

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Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

Published by Michael Arnzen in Online Gizmo of the Month on December 23rd, 2009

Orphan Feast

Orphan Feast

Orphan Feast is a delightfully strange game, inspired by a combination of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and Dickens’ Oliver Twist — with a little Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton thrown into the mix. In Orphan Feast you play Creeky Tom, a ghoulish rogue whose goal is to prowl the dark alleys and rundown streets of old London and capture the homeless street urchins you’ll find everywhere there, gathering them in a sack, while avoiding a cast of crazy characters out to foil you in bizarre ways. The orphans — if you make it back to your lair — are destined for the oven, to be baked into pies (and Tom himself often snacks on the little kiddies when he’s not doing anything else). It’s a despicable premise, but the artwork is so well-done that you’ll keep playing to see what they come up with next.

Brought to you by [adult swim] games, so you know that it’s weird. In fact, they’ve got a LOT of crazy games even weirder and more deplorable than this one. Like 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself, a classic favorite.

Getting hungry? Time to partake in the Orphan Feast!

Happy Holidays!

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Not Dead Yet: The Listmaniacal Archive

Published by Michael Arnzen in Not Dead Yet: Print Reviews on November 29th, 2009

I’ve gathered all the books I’ve reviewed in The Goreletter (since 2002) into some fun listmania lists over at amazon.com, and I’ll keep adding titles to them from the “Not Dead Yet” department into the future.

I’ve also been having way too much fun trolling around amazon for weird discoveries, and I have compiled a few other funky lists, like the Goofy Gory Gifts Galore list and other novelty lists. I’m apparently a listmaniac.

Amazon Listmania Collects Books Reviewed

Amazon Listmania Collects Books Reviewed

After many years of neglect, I have updated my author profile on amazon.com, where you can find more weirdness and links to many of my books and anthologies. Since amazon now features some of my stuff in their kindle store, and because I am likely to begin publishing The Goreletter for Kindle readers as well as web browsers, I have made gorelets an amazon affiliate, and I have been cleaning up their database when it comes to Arnzen titles by uploading book covers or making corrections. Your reviews and tags on amazon.com are appreciated.

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Clips from My Halloween Reading at SHU 2009

Published by Michael Arnzen in Weblog Exclusive on October 25th, 2009

Audiovile CD cover

Audiovile CD cover


Last week the English Club at Seton Hill University invited me to read at a Halloween event they sponsored, and I had a lot of fun reading some new story sketches and poems with them. I recorded it, so I could share a few audio clips here in celebration.

Click the play button below to hear “Endless Shrimp” (2:10), “Silence” (3:17) and “The Christmas Doll” (0:46). Happy Halloween (…and Christmas, too!)

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If you like it, investigate my produced CD — Audiovile! Here’s track 1: “Psycho Hunter”! Just press play:

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And if you want to hear more audio here on gorelets.com, I’ve updated old blog entries that refer to ghosts of mp3s past. So just click the ‘audio’ tag below to find more posts with streaming audio…just look for the evil little red play buttons!

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Merry Creepy Christmas

Published by Michael Arnzen in Online Gizmo of the Month on December 25th, 2008

 littlestockingstuffer

Happy holidays!

Ring in the season with the Creepy Christmas Film Festival — a series a short holiday-themed horror films posted all month long at Glass Eye Pix!

[The Little Stocking Stuffer image in this post is from the Creepy Advent Calendar by animator Beck Underwood, which helped inspire the Festival project.]

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