Horror Interviews on The Book Case podcast
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Horror Interviews on The Book Case podcast

If you're not listening to The Book Case with Kate & Charlie Gibson (of Good Morning America fame) then you're missing out on some great conversations about not only today's bestselling books, but also about the horror genre itself. Kate is a lively interviewer and such an intelligent reader -- and lately has been having a blast trying to get her father Charlie to read and enjoy and understand the horror genre in his retirement, as together they read current books and talk about them with their guest authors. They also routinely interview people in the book business and include…
August 19, 2023Posted inArnzen News
The 2023 SFPA Science Fiction Poetry Contest
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The 2023 SFPA Science Fiction Poetry Contest

[UPDATE: The results of the 2023 SFPA Poetry contest have been posted! You can read the winning and runner-up entries online. Congrats to the winners, and a big thank you to the HUNDREDS who entered...it was a pleasure reading each and every piece.] I have been a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association almost as long as I've been writing. I've published in their journal Star*Line (and the affiliated one, Eye to the Telescope),I served as Secretary/Treasurer for a few years in the 90s, I've recorded recitations of poems for their online Halloween audio series, I've helped with the…
July 5, 2023Posted inArnzen News
Still from "Zombeanie Babies"
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The Gorelets Omnibus – Cool 99c SALE Videos

Raw Dog Screaming Press has been running a .99c sale on The Gorelets Omnibus ebook edition on Amazon.com -- if you've never read the book, now's your chance to get a copy very cheap! But act quick, because this deal runs out on June 4th, 2023. Or better yet, get two books, with a similar deal being offered on The Underside of the Rainbow by BE Burkhead (who you can see reading a gorelets-inspired poem from that book, by memory, at a fantastic reading event we shared several Halloweens ago in Baltimore, to launch the 20th anniversary edition of Grave…
May 28, 2023Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Veterans in Horror
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Veterans in Horror

I rarely talk about my days in the military. I am also anti-war and loathe the crassness of July 4th (as does my cat). But freedom means everything to me, and I'm proud to be a veteran. Serving in the Army helped me not only meet some amazing people and make good lifelong friends, but supported my first-generation entry into college afterward. It was also where I wrote my first horror story, because I was reading so much of it, and tried on a lark to see if I could be as clever as Stephen King. I wasn't. But even…
November 11, 2022Posted inArnzen News
Why I Love Horror
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Why I Love Horror

I recently was invited to share a guest post on Becky Spratford's RA for All: Horror blog, answering the deceptively simple prompt question, What do you love about horror? What's not to love? Such a difficult question, and I got stuck on how to answer this question until I started separating it out into the infamous "seven types" of love, identified by Greek philosophers. That sounds awfully geeky, but I had a lot of fun with it. You can read this interview on the 31 Days of Horror section of RA for All: Horror In the entry, I explain why…
October 17, 2022Posted inArnzen News