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Rigormarole Details

Just a quick note to say that my wacky zombie poetry collection Rigormarole is now up for advanced orders on the publisher's website and at my favorite online bookstore, Shocklines.com, for $9.95. It'll be a signed/numbered limited edition of 250 copies, currently on track for a July release. Update: Horror-Web just posted an excellent review of the book: "An eclectic and often inspired collection...Arnzen provides for both those who love zombies and those who are sick of them, because you cannot help but laugh at some of these while being amazed at the zen-like depth of others." You can also…
June 17, 2005Posted inArnzen News
Posted inData+Errata

Driving the Sick Elephant: Free Audio File

Break out your "Die"-pod! You can now download and listen to me perform a spoken word piece called "Driving the Sick Elephant." It's pretty slick, coupled with some pretty wild music, self-recorded in the studio. A short sample is available to play online at gorelets.com, along with the complete file to download and the lyrics. You'll find it halfway down the "writing/previews" page at gorelets.com. Or if you just want to download the file right away, (click here (warning: it's 3.8 megabytes). Update: you can play it below! [audio:Michael%20A.%20Arnzen%20-%20Driving%20The%20Sick%20Elephant.mp3]
June 6, 2005Posted inData+Errata
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Coming Soon: Rigormarole!

Naked Snake Press is publishing Rigormarole later this summer! Here's the description from the back cover: Why do zombies lumber? What is the Resurrectal Cortex? What lurks in the Home Depot of the Dead? RIGORMAROLE is a score of poems for the walking dead by Michael Arnzen, the award-winning author of Grave Markings and Play Dead. Featuring original sketches by John Skipp, splatterpunk godfather and editor of Book of the Dead. "Reanimated flesh, cannibalism, brain succotash...the stuff that great poetry is made of! Mike Arnzen fuses humor and gore with a poetic sensibility to create his own fun subgenre! Come…
May 29, 2005Posted inArnzen News
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems Weblog Exclusive

A Good Enough Box

He wants to put his head inside a cardboard box to keep him company. But it's problematic. Getting the right-sized carton is proving difficult because they make them for hats not heads, and he tumbles and thuds inside every one he's tried so far, bruising him ugly. Then there's matter of which side to face up since sometimes he doesn't want to look him in the eyes when they talk and at other times he wants to pull him out by the hair and pretend it's his birthday. And the cardboard is weak and the bottom keeps getting so soggy…
May 24, 2005Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems, Weblog Exclusive
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Play Dead Update

My second novel, Play Dead, is at the printers and pre-orders are currently being taken for the hardcover edition. I'm told the book will have an off-white jacket cloth and metallic red foil stamp to emulate the look of a playing card. I continue to be impressed by the attention to detail that my publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press, is putting into this book! The novel is due out in August. New pre-release acclaim has come in... "...a fast-paced, brutal, gritty, and unflinching novel." -- Cemetery Dance "Play Dead is a fun story full of power, life and death, intricacies…
May 15, 2005Posted inArnzen News