Michael A. Arnzen's Blog: News from Gorelets.com, page 39

Fake Horror Movies I’d Really Like To See

Not showing at a theater near you…

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Gale, 2008)
Gobstopper (Appel, 2009)
Student Death Camp Gore Massacre Part 13 (Hale and Pace, 1988)

[Thanks to Dennis Jerz for pointing me to 'Horribly Slow']

Pithy Morbid Thought Contest at The Haunt

The Haunt just made me one of their featured members for the month of April, so to celebrate I’m hosting a contest on their site — with one my books available as prizes to FIVE lucky winners!

The contest involves posting your own “Pithy Morbid Thought” on The Haunt’s forum for the contest, available on my profile page at the site. You must sign-up to the site to participate and be eligible to win. More guidelines are listed on the forum on my profile page.

The Haunt is like a MySpace for Horror

Zombie CSU: The Lost Arnzen Interview

In August 2008, Kensington Books released a great nonfiction title called ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Undead, written by Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry, that is definitely worth a look-see if you’re a fan of this subgenre of the undead. Reminiscent of — but far richer in scope than — Max Brooks’ classic Zombie Survival Manual, Zombie CSU covers far more than just “Crime Scene Unit” material. It is, in fact, a thick cultural guide to virtually everything associated with these

The Ecology of Housecleaning

Still alive… catching up with all sorts of projects.  Almost overlooked this one:

My microfiction, “The Ecology of Housecleaning,” appears in the latest issue of Dustin LaValley’s deceptively disturbing Micro100 journal.  Happy to see my old friend Kurt Newton has a tiny tale in there, alongside all sorts of other 100-word-or-less stories involving knives and babies.

Authors: Dead or Alive

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Dead or Alive?

How many of your authors are dead?

Dead: 49 / Alive: 116 / Unknown: 153 / Not a Person: 1

Percent alive: 70.3%

xo

 

The above is a report generated from a neat new analytical script that LibraryThing can do to your home bookshelves, called “Dead or Alive?”

I sort of assumed I’d have more dead authors.  Ah well.  Ironically, they listed my own name as “Unknown”…and I found that a little soothing.  Call me anthropomorphic, but I think I’d rather be among those undead than “Not a Person”

Winner Chosen for LibraryThing Giveaway

Congrats to LibraryThing member Sarah who just won a copy of my book 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories as part of a “member giveaway” raffle!   Sarah was one of over 200 entrants; I have a list of the top five picks and may be giving runner-up prizes as I can afford them to a handful of others.  Thanks to all who participated in the fun!

LibraryThing is a great place for book lovers to share their book catalogs.  I’m a lifetime LT author and welcome your visit.

Win a Signed Copy of 100 Jolts

[This contest has unfortunately ended.  Thanks to everyone who entered!:]

[ACT QUICK!  This opportunity expires today. There are over 200 entrants so far!:]

You can win a free signed copy of my book, 100 Jolts, by entering a request at the “member giveaway” raffle at LibraryThing.com.  You’ll need to sign up for LibraryThing if you’re not already on the bookshelf sharing site…luckily, they offer free limited membership (and a cheap pricetag for unlimited membership).  I’m a LTAuthor — come check it

Horror-Ku Winners Posted

If you’d like to read a few quick horror haiku, click on over to the Little Blog of Horrors over at Horror-Web.com.  They’ve posted the top three entries of a horror-ku contest I recently judged.  Congrats to winners CS McBride, Bruce Boston and John Pupo!

The Haunt’s Horror Arcade

I should be working, but how can I when there are maniac clowns on the loose?

The new “MySpace for Horror Fans Only” website, The Haunt, hosts a bounty of online “flash” games you can play online for free in their macabre Arcade section. I’m not too old to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the silly survivalist massacre known as Clown Killer 2.   After a ten minute session, I became the champion player of CK2 with a new high score…which will surely be defeated soon by some John Wayne Gacy wannabe who ha

Horror Haiku Contest

Jimmy Z. — the new purveyor of Horror-web.com — has invited me to judge a horror haiku contest they’re presently running, with cash prizes. If you write poetry, or simply love to wax pithy with expressions of zombie philosophy, you still have time to send him your submissions. The deadline is Feb 1st.

You might read Ryan Mecum’s Zombie Haiku for inspiration.