Posted inBlather

Rejected Wack-ee Packages

PRODUCT NAME: Toast Tito's Corn Chips ARTWORK: Corn Chip Bag brimming with crisped brown foot ailments. REASON FOR REJECTION: Too sick, even for us. The pictured dip is...worse. PRODUCT NAME: Axe Devitalizing Shower Gel ARTWORK: "Psycho" shower scene with axe-wielding maniac in silhouette behind a curtain. REASON FOR REJECTION: This is more an idea than a product parody. Besides, Axe is for men, and the sudsy nude in the shower is cleary female. PRODUCT NAME: BloodGeyser ARTWORK: Brown bottle spraying blood from top. REASON FOR REJECTION: Not bad, but pun is too easy. It would help if the bottle wasn't…
June 5, 2008Posted inBlather
Posted inData+Errata

5.02 Contest Winners Announced

"He has his mother's eye(s), and his father's teeth." -- Dean M. Watts "I'm James Newman, and I endorsed this message. Paid for by The Union of Concerned Ophthalmologists." -- Jason Jack Miller Congratulations Dean and Jason! You've both won free copies of the Exquisite Corpse DVD for entering the photo caption contest from the latest issue of The Goreletter! (Other entrants can be found on the Arnzen myspace page). And many thanks again to James Newman (and family) for sharing that bloody wonderful photo (itself a prize-winner last Halloween!) Subscribers to the e-mail edition are eligible for contest prizes…
June 4, 2008Posted inData+Errata
Posted inArnzen News

May 2008 Updates

If you haven't heard already, Gauntlet Press is producing HE IS LEGEND, an awesome tribute anthology of short stories and novellas based on the classic fiction of Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, and so much more).  I'm honored to be a part of the fun, with my short piece called "She Screech Like Me" -- a sequel to Matheson's famous story, "Born of Man and Woman."  The line-up for this book includes the first collaboration between Stephen King and his son Joe Hill (riffing on "Duel"), along with Gary Braunbeck, William Nolan, Joe Lansdale, and a host…
May 26, 2008Posted inArnzen News

"You are more useful to Nature dead than alive." -- U.G. Krishnamurti (died 2007)

Rest in Green Peace
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Notes from Horror 101

I just finished teaching a wonderful "Horror & Suspense Writing" course at Seton Hill University. Under my office door last week, I found a slip of paper from an anonymous student, who was writing down the weirdest of the wacky things that came out of my mouth during lectures and discussions. Here's a select few snippets of profound wisdom: On point-of view in horror fiction: "You shouldn't be writing in First Person Singular all the time...instead, try writing in First Monster Singular." Responding to a question about sexual perversion in horror fiction: "What do you mean?  Necrophilia is the safest…
May 16, 2008Posted inSnippets of the Strange