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Upcoming Appearances
Want a book signed? Want to attend a fiction reading or take a horror writing workshop? Here are some of my future appearances. November 3rd-6th World Fantasy Convention 2005 | Madison, WI Panelist: "The Dead Shall Rise: Zombies in Folklore, Science, & Popular Culture" (Sat 10 am); Book Signing (Fri 8pm) March 15-19, 2006 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts 27 | Ft. Lauderdale, FL Fiction Reading, Panel Discussion
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Halloween Specials
I noticed recently that there are a number of good Halloween shopping deals on horror books out there recently, and so I thought I'd call attention to a few before the end of the month... Fictionwise E-books is presently offering 25% of all their horror titles until October 31st. They have a number of Arnzen titles in stock -- a good way to get my short story collections, 100 Jolts or Fluid Mosaic, cheap! Shocklines Bookstore has an incentive for readers to discover horror poetry: buy one horror poetry book, get one free! A great way to pick up my…
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Even Zombies Love Play Dead
Happy Halloween! This fantastic photo is taken from a break on the set of Hell on Earth, a zombie film in production by Ted Bohus at Horror Biz Films. The artist behind the special "Grim Grimoire" edition of Play Dead is also a prop artist for this film (also playing a zombie), which will feature one of his famous "Necronomicon"-styled books. The special edition of Play Dead will priced and orders will be taken very soon. The standard hardcover edition of my novel is available now from your favorite bookseller (though you may have to ask them to stock it)…
The Dentist on Halloween
He fills a bowl with healthy snacks and waits for the trick-or-treaters. But they're never what he expects. Sometimes it's a burned out Crest kid -- just a skeleton blackened everywhere but her pearly whites. Sometimes it's a poor child who had no insurance -- groaning "trigg or deef" with his cancerous rictus. Sometimes it's just his lawyer chattering incoherently about malpractice. Sometimes it's an incredible human drill, screeching in his doorway, its head spinning exorcist-style and so fast he can see no features but knows that it's smiling with braces bending like the gates of hell. Sometimes it's just…