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January 19, 2013
Other Damned Refrigerators
[In honor of our Kickstarter campaign for The Fridge of the Damned...(remember: the chance to pledge and receive great rewards ends Feb 1st!)]
The Fridge Peep Show
http://thefridgepeepshow.wordpress.com/
Freezer Friday by Charlie Layton
http://freezerfriday.tumblr.com/
Abandoned Appliances Flickr Group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1207990@N24/pool/
Fridge Monster by Daywalt Fear Factory
http://youtu.be/g8xHq3S6pgM
The Undying Horror of the Refrigerator
http://www.fright.com/edge/UndyingHorrorRefrigerator.htm
Upcoming Cons and Signings in 2013
World Horror Convention & Bram Stoker Award Weekend
June 13-16, 2013 | New Orleans, LA
Arnzen has TENTATIVE plans to attend.
http://www.stokers2013.org/
“In Your Write Mind” Book Signing
June 29, 2013 | Greensburg, PA
PLAY DEAD reissue release date! Arnzen will sign books at the “In Your Write Mind” workshop at Seton Hill University’s MFA in Writing Popular Fiction Alumni book signing event, anticipated June 29th, 2013 at 7pm.
http://inyourwritemind.setonhill.edu/
“Confluence” Convention
July 19-21, 2013 | Pittsburgh, PA
Arnzen will be attending Confluence: The 25th Annual Literary Sci-Fi Convention in Pittsburgh, PA (Airport Holiday Inn) July 19th – 21st, 2013. Readings, signings, panel appearances expected. Likely to feature events from Dog Star Books and Raw Dog Screaming Press.
http://www.parsec-sff.org/confluence/whatis.html
“KillerCon” Convention
Sept. 19-22, 2013 | Las Vegas, NV
Arnzen will be attending KillerCon V to be held at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Sept. 19-22nd, 2013. Readings, book signings and panel appearances expected.
http://killercon.com/
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Most of these don’t happen until Summer 2013, but I wanted to post these to remind folks who may be making travel plans, since many cons offer discounted rates to early birds. I’ll post updates as new signings and events are arranged.
January 17, 2013
A Video Appreciation for Funding our Fridge
I made this video to shout out my thanks for all who have been pledging to make The Fridge of the Damned a reality. As of this post, there are two weeks left to pledge and we’re 76% of the way toward funding the manufacturing of the magnet sets. But we want to see these come in collectible tins, and the only way to make that happen is with your support. Please pledge or spread the word by sharing this video or the link to our page on kickstarter.
Remember: the campaign ends on February 1st!
January 13, 2013
Goreletter 7.01 Mailed
The Goreletter Vol. 7, #1 was e-mailed to subscribers on 1/13/12 @ 11:59pm est. It contains extra entertainment/material not available here on the weblog version, including a haiku contest exclusive to subscribers with one-of-a-kind prizes.
If you subscribe and did not receive this issue, e-mail me for a replacement or review the archives at gorelets.com. If you need to check or update your subscription’s email address, just enter it in the subscribe box and review the report.
Subscribe today…it’s free and you can always unsubscribe if it terrorizes you too much. Issues are mailed only a few times per year, if even that, so your inbox won’t suffocate.
Happy New Fear,
– Michael A. Arnzen
January 10, 2013
Announcing Mastication Publications
I’m pleased to formally announce the resurrection of my old indie press imprint, Mastication Publications! While we’ve existed since 1991, and printed a number of chapbooks and ephemera over the past twenty years, this really marks a new phase in the press’ development, as we will be more aggressively entering the ebook market and developing new projects. Our tagline is “Unusual Ideas to Chew On”. Here’s a snippet from the mission statement on our “About Us” page which elaborates:
We see this press as more of a creative laboratory than some vain enterprise in self-publishing. It is a venue for trying new things and archiving things that may have otherwise been lost and forgotten. We’ve always been a small press interested in exploring new territory for genre fiction and poetry, liberated from the norms of mainstream publishing and unbound by the usual commercial demands.
Visit the new page at http://masticationpublications.com
Lots of creative things are in development, from a new logo, to re-released ebooks from my backlist, to the new Instigation ebook (which you can get for as little as a buck if you pledge to The Fridge of the Damned kickstarter before Feb 1st!).
But first up is a free chapbook, available in the next few days, called MEAT SHOTS!
Get This New Chapbook — Free!
All you need to do is sign up for the press’ newsletter and you will receive a free electronic chapbook (adobe format) called “Meat Shots” that collects some of my best microhorror in a beautifully colorful and playfully organized little e-package, designed by Nathan Rosen. Read all about it on the Mastication Publications website.
January 7, 2013
Found Bones and other Word Art/Poems
“Found Bones”: From the Fridge of the Damned flickr set
Inspired by the terrifc response we’re getting to the Fridge of the Damned magnetic word tile campaign, I’ll be posting poems (made with real or virtual poetry magnets) and related “word art” to the project’s Flickr set. Drop by and check them out from time to time.
This set can also include your own poems written with The Fridge of the Damned in the mind, if you care to share. Just email photos to me and I’ll post them.
Remember: the kickstarter campaign ends February 1st, 2013. Act swiftly if you want to be a part of the action!
January 2, 2013
Fund The Fridge of the Damned … Get the INSTIGATIONS Ebook!
For the month of January, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Microhorror.com and Gorelets.com are joining forces to campaign on Kickstarter to make The Fridge of the Damned: a twisted magnetic poetry set (based on something that old fans of this site will be familiar with) that will make any sticky metal surface even stickier!
Kick the Fridge before Feb 1st! An ebook will fall out.
We need your help. Kick in a few bucks and if our dreams become a reality, you can use these demented fridge magnets however you please… in fact, with a little creative play, they might “instigate” you to come up with poetry, stories, art or even novels all your own!
But even better: by funding the project at ANY level (even just a buck!), you’ll automatically reserve a free copy of Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side! This new ebook is NOT just a scraping together of all the “twisted prompts for sicko writers” you already find here at gorelets… it includes the entire collection from the infamous weekly column that ran in Hellnotes newsletter from many years ago, dozens and dozens of strange prompts from Michael Arnzen’s horror writing classes at Seton Hill University, and a battery of original material only available in this ebook: from new prompts “too hot for gorelets,” to activities intended specifically for writers in the muddlesome middle of their novels, to articles about writer’s block, advice for staying focused, and more. And all of it, intended to navigate you into the dark side, where the interesting stuff awaits. If you’re a writer, you’ll definitely want this.
The book is being published this March by my own imprint, Mastication Publications. Sign up for the Mastication newsletter, and you’ll get ANOTHER free ebook — “Meat Shots” — a collection of short shorts of terror — with design by our kickstarter campaign director Nate Rosen, in .pdf format.
It’s raining free books! Soak them up and get inspired to death.
Fear the Abyss…and the Scary Tiny Citybots!
Just posted the above video review of a few funky science fictional things I’ve been up to lately: including a teeny tiny ebook device for microfiction, a new experimental (and free!) short-short anthology (#Citybots) and the awesome Fear the Abyss anthology from Post Mortem Press.
January 1, 2013
A Poem on the >Original< Fridge of the Damned
Here’s a typical “gorelets” poem…made with virtual refrigerator magnets on the “original” Fridge of the Damned. The fridge has been in cold storage for about a decade…but I thought you’d like to see this. Because — horror of horrors! — it’s nearly defrosted! And over the next few days you will find out about the surprising rebirth of this damned fridge in 2013!
You’ll likely be surprised. Mum’s the word for now, but for more vague teasers like this, drop by my flickr account for a growing set of photos, and do come back soon. And in the mean time, beware the Eater of Worms!
The original “Fridge of the Damned” was a virtual poetry magnet set hosted on gorelets.com, from 2001-3.
The original “Fridge of the Damned” was a virtual poetry magnet set hosted on gorelets.com, from 2001-3. Bascially, I deconstructed the poems from the original Gorelets series into tiles made up of weird and disturbing words, which visitors could slide around on the page and create their own horror poems. Nowadays, you can probably find similar games online or in phone apps, but it was pretty unique at the time, and writers of many stripes used to visit the page and leave their creations on a guestbook. In fact, at one point a number of horror poets got together and wrote a batch of poetry on the fridge that ended up published as a section of a book called Cemetery Poets!
I took the damned fridge down from the web sometime around 2013, as the guestbook and javascript it relied upon became outdated and buggy. But it cannot be contained… with the help of the good folks at Raw Dog Screaming Press, microhorror.com, and hopefully YOU, the Fridge door will be opening up again soon, and you won’t want to miss it! Watch this page or subscribe to The Goreletter for updates!
December 31, 2012
Happy New Year! Here’s a Snippet of the Weirdest of 2012
You already know 2012 was pretty weird. Here’s a small sampler of annual roundups that reaffirm it…
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