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Food Folks and Fun with Zombies at the Morgantown Poets

The Morgantown Poets society has posted video excerpts from my Halloween season poetry reading in Morgantown, West Virginia last month.  It was a goofy gory night of the bizarre, which I titled "Food, Folks and Fun with Zombies." I read three courses of horror:  a batch of gory "food" poems from a variety of sources (including crazy twitter poems and pieces from The Goreletter e-edition), a "folksy" ghost story (from the just-released collection, Legends of the Mountain State IV -- not appearing on the vid), and then I ended with a "fun" batch of zombie poems from my book, Rigormarole. …
November 7, 2010Posted inArnzen News3 Comments
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Enter The Nest

I've added a new sub page to gorelets.com that will collect and archive all my posts to twitter.com, so you don't have to go to their website and try to hunt for them. Enter The Nest. What I like about this is not only will it allow me to keep a record of all those brief snippets of weirdness that I've posted that are hard to find in twitter's archives, but it also lets readers like you search for things that you'd have a hard time finding on twitter itself, and it doesn't require signing up for twitter to do…
November 6, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inData+Errata

2010 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners

The 2010 Halloween Haiku Caption Contest was difficult to judge, and all the entries were fantastic. Thank you for captioning all those weird art pieces!  We'll do it again sometime. It was difficult to pick one, but to me the clear winner is FJ Bergmann (fibitz.com), for penning a gross little number inspired by the art piece, "Fountain of Worm." Bergmann's haiku has dynamic action, impending doom, good reference to the image, and great language use, all telling a unique story in just 17 syllables!: FOUNTAIN OF WORM quivering with need undulating, gorged with blood the gut villi wait --…
November 2, 2010Posted inData+Errata5 Comments
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Halloween Episode of Horrors at Crimewav.com

There's a bonus treat wiggling around in the filthy bottom of your Halloween candy sack....some hot brass! Crimewav.com -- an excellent podcast of noir crime fiction -- is featuring three of my music-enhanced horror stories in a special Halloween Episode of Horrors in a surprise Halloween release tonight.  It's a great way to get a free sampler from my cd,  Audiovile, and you can also hear the new track, "Attack of the Bleu Man Group," if you didn't check it out on gorelets.com earlier this week.  Check it out, and sample some of the other writers on the site, or…
October 31, 2010Posted inArnzen News
Posted inWeblog Exclusive

Behind the Halloween Fire

Happy Halloween! Here's a treat: "Behind the Halloween Fire": original widescreen desktop wallpaper art available at the Arnzen Flickr Gallery, or click on the image above and then save to your computer. Don't forget: the Halloween Haiku Contest ends tonight (Oct 31st, 2010) at Midnight eastern.  Enter a haiku caption to one of the images in my "Scrawl" gallery for your chance to win a free copy of the new Richard Matheson tribute anthology, He Is Legend (which includes my story, "She Screech Like Me"), along with a surprise treat.  Be sure to read the haiku there for some fun…
October 31, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive2 Comments