Michael A. Arnzen's Blog

Cthulhu the Obscure

A Connecticut Devil in King Arthur's Inferno

The Golden Bowl of Blood

The Isle of Dr. Moreau and Mr. Hyde

As I Lay Resurrecting

Creature from the Walden Pond

Of Mice and Tentacles

A Midsummer Night's Scream

Jane Weyrewolf

Oedipus Rex: The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes

Uncle Tom's Cannibal Cabin

A Poison Clockwork Orange

Rabid Animal Farm

Lord of the Giant Flies

Clone King Richard the Thirtieth

A Morgue of One's Own

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With irreverence for: Quirk Classics

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Check out Karen Newman's new interview with me at The Black Glove online horror site. They also review my book, Proverbs for Monsters in another post.

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'Fearleader Camp' - SPORTUARY interior illo by Marcia Borell

I'm getting geared up to finish the next e-mail edition of The Goreletter, so I thought I'd post a little incentive for readers to subscribe (free) so they won't miss a beat as this award-winning newsletter launches into its sixth volume of all things weird, wacky, wicked and wobbly. I try to make every issue a combination of original material with "best of blog" excerpts and often include coupons and contests for free swag (or as I...

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Scuttlebuggery is a stylishly steampunk online promotional game for the goth band Johnny Hollow, brought to you by the geniuses at My Pet Skeleton Productions (maker of "A Murder of Scarecrows" featured here awhile back).

In this game you play a scuttlebug — a round beetle who must figure out how to push bubbles of absinthe toward a drain, dodging beetles and fluttering moths along the way. It's like soccer for scarabs. And though it sounds like child's play, it is a Sisyphean challenge...

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Lots of little things going on, so I thought I'd post a bunch of random news all in one batch:

+ WD Prescott is running a neat contest on his website with a chance to win a signed copy of my out of print novel, Play Dead!

+ You can now order the 'spoon river horror poetry anthology,' Death In Common, edited by Rich Ristow, on amazon.com

+ Speaking of Rich Ristow, I might as well sneak a little news to you: he will be editing my next poetry book, tentatively entitled Blood Bath & Beyond!...

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Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction For Charity

Awhile ago I got the strangest e-mail message from World Fantasy Award-winning author (and old friend) Jeff Vandermeer. It read:

Who is Last Drink Bird Head? Story, anecdote, 500 words. Don't Think: just write.

And I did. My story was but one of a long list of short-shorts that now appear in Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity — with all proceeds going to proliteracy.org.

The results are pretty astounding, ranging from...

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I love this dangerous and disturbing book, and highly recommend it…especially if you're getting bored with the run of the same old mills:

Learn more…

Read that book. And if you're still hungry for more, and you can find back issues of the (now defunct) magazine that spawned this book, you might find my memoir of Amityville lurking in Morbid Curiosity #7.

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Funereal Fun

+ Describe an operation or autopsy that transpires in total darkness.

+ Reveal a secret during an open casket funeral.

+ Discover a "pattern" among the gravestones.

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Review the entire "Instigation" department for more prompts. You can share your writing here on The Goreletter by clicking on the 'comment' link.

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I am hearing reports that Writer's Workshop of Horror has already gone into it's 2nd printing. This collection of advice from today's top authors of terror — from Brian Keene to Joe Lansdale to Michael Laimo to many more — is a virtual college classroom in a book when it comes to the craft of the crypt. I'm recommending it to all my students in our MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at SHU. But even if you're not a writer, where else, I ask, can you get such "behind the scenes" insight fr

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We Have Band (You Came Out)

James Kuhn Facepaint Videos

World Body Painting Festival

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