Instigation: Prompts About Masks
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Instigation: Prompts About Masks

If you write horror or otherwise create "on the dark side," look into acquiring my prompt collection, INSTIGATION: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side. In my day job, I teach creative writing at Seton Hill University, and one of my many tasks is advising the campus literary magazine, Eye Contact. They are running a special theme issue on "Masks" for Spring 2021, in response to the Covid pandemic, and I made a list of prompts for one of their workshops, as well as for my current creative writing class. Since masks are an icon in the horror genre, I thought…
March 12, 2021Posted inInstigation
Stoker-Inspired Special Spring ’21 Update
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Stoker-Inspired Special Spring ’21 Update

Spring is springing and I thought I'd share a general update, sparked by my registration for StokerCon this May... StokerCon -- the annual convention of horror genre professionals run by the Horror Writers Association -- announced it was going virtual this year (due to the Covid pandemic; a wise move), so I registered and WILL be attending and probably be a part of the program in some fashion. I'm proud to report that there are several alumni from the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program (where I teach horror) in the running for the Bram Stoker Award to be given…
March 4, 2021Posted inArnzen News
Voices in Your Head
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Voices in Your Head

I’ll be fielding questions from horror writer Lorne Dixon LIVE on Visitedbyvoices on youtube FRIDAY, 2/19, at 8PM eastern. All horror-interested folks are invited to have a fun time. Lorne has been interviewing a number of interesting guests across the spectrum of horror media... subscribe to his VBV channel and keep up with him at: https://youtube.com/visitedbyvoices1 3/1/21 UPDATE: the livestream was recorded and is now available on the VbV channel here. 3/28/21 UPDATE: I'm recording a group discussion about the horror genre on Dixon's VbV with Ramsey Campbell, Brian Hodge and Mark Allan Gunnells to be released in the near…
February 18, 2021Posted inArnzen News
The Tale of the Horribly Bloated Souffle
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The Tale of the Horribly Bloated Souffle

Welcome to my 2021 website reboot! I apologize if you've come to gorelets.com and not found what you were hoping to find. The site is about twenty years old, and was getting very crusty with old content and dozens of broken links... and in mid-2020 collapsed like a horribly bloated and badly malformed soufflé. It's such a mess that I decided to restart from scratch. Lots to rebuild. Lots of new things to share with you. But for now you just have this little sticky note on the door of the kitchen, saying come back later when it's ready.
January 3, 2021Posted inData+Errata
Instigating with Brain Squalls Podcast
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Instigating with Brain Squalls Podcast

Over the holidays, I appeared on the Brain Squalls podcast as their first guest. Every episode of the podcast -- run by horror author EV Knight and her partner Matt Daigh -- is a creativity experiment, in which the two of them come up with prompts for story or art ideas and then create story lines and structures "live" as they pursue the possibilities. It's a lot of fun. And when I was in the mix, bringing a little Instigation to the table, it was a lot of weird. I had a great time daydreaming on the dark side with…
January 13, 2020Posted inArnzen News