Posted inOur Odd Triple Feature
Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews
A Macabre Miscellany
I found Geoffrey Abbott's treasury of trivia, A Macabre Miscellany (Virgin Books, 2004), entirely by accident. I was gift shopping at the local chain bookstore, and somehow found this morbid little book in the Reference section. After reading the back cover -- which calls it "a compendium of carnage, a treasure chest of torture and terror...the very best of the very worst things that can happen to a person" -- I immediately knew that I had indeed found a gift...for myself! Published by the quirky book division of UK outfit Virgin Entertainment, this 4x6" title manages to collect "a thousand…
Posted inData+Errata
Stoker 2004 Update
The winners of the 2004 Bram Stoker Awards were announced last weekend. Alas, this newsletter and my fiction collection, 100 Jolts -- which were finalists -- did not earn the trophy, but the old cliche is true: it truly was "an honor to be nominated" by my peers in the horror field. There are several highlights in the winner's list, and I applaud everyone. But I think I'm clapping loudest for Hellnotes newsletter, which won the Stoker for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction. As many readers of The Goreletter know, I contribute a weekly version of "Instigation: Twisted Prompts for Sicko…
Posted inArnzen News
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…