Posted inData+Errata

Gorelets.com will be down this weekend for maintenance

My website, gorelets.com is currently down for roughly 48 hours of maintenance. I will post an update here when the status changes. A piece of malware was discovered in the system that was running the gallery on the site. It is not a virus that can harm any visitor's machine, but it did corrupt files on my server and was spreading wantonly.  Beyond this, the worst thing this malware could do was redirect visitors to spam sites at random times. I am in the process of purging and scrubbing all files to make the site squeaky clean. While I do…
December 10, 2011Posted inData+Errata1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

Wicker Park Press Catalog — features Poe’s Lighthouse

Just shared this Chicago publisher's catalog on my scribd.com page -- go there if your browser can't load it below. AMAZING COVER ART on this publisher's catalog (art: "Poe Rendering" by J.M. Demetrius, copyright 2011)! Includes good overview in the front pages for the upcoming reprint of POE'S LIGHTHOUSE, edited by Christopher Conlon -- due in paperback soon -- which includes one of my short stories. The book is a collection of stories that complete an unfinished fragment of fiction by Edgar Allan Poe...with amazing results. Preordering is available on amazon.com, or directly from Wicker Park Press. Check out their…
December 3, 2011Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Pre-order The Gorelets Omnibus!

My latest book is now available for pre-order.  And I'm very proud to share it with you, because it's the result of a decade of work right here on gorelets.com.  It's a big honking book of dreadful little things called THE GORELETS OMNIBUS. I'll paste the publisher's description below, but if you want to jump right to their catalog, Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my other books, 100 Jolts and Play Dead) are now accepting pre-orders on their website.  PREORDERS WILL GET A FREE SIGNED BROADSIDE AS A COLLECTIBLE BONUS. The book will likely ship in late January 2012. …
December 1, 2011Posted inArnzen News
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Put this under your child’s pillow when they lose a baby tooth…

Don't put money under your child's pillow if they put their lost tooth there before bedtime. Put something like this under there, waiting for them to awaken in the morning... money better spent! Berkeley dollmaker Kerry Kate is doing some wonderfully macabre artwork with her collectable handmade doll series at October Effigies. Above is her Tooth Fairy Stuffed Print Doll from May 2010; I also found her "Wormbelly" doll quite disturbing. Visit her blog for the latest.
November 30, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Vampires of the Wild Kingdom

The Vampire Squid: "Like many deep-sea cephalopods, Vampire Squid lack ink sacs. If threatened, instead of ink, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light is ejected from the arm tips. This luminous barrage, which may last nearly 10 minutes, is presumably meant to daze would-be predators and allow the Vampire Squid to disappear into the blackness without the need to swim far." -- wikipedia entry on Vampire Squid from Hell The Vampire Bat: "...The furry, bean-shaped bat with its rodent-like face resembles a rat with wings, but bats are actually more closely related in evolution…
November 29, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange