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Appearances in July 2008

July 19th, 7pm | Alpha Booksigning | Barnes and Noble Bookstore | Greensburg, PA Arnzen reading and book signing, along with sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn (known for his Star Wars books) at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Greensburg, PA. Students participating in the Alpha SF/F Workshops will be a part of this event (I'm teaching in the program this year). Free and open to the public. UPCOMING APPEARANCES: Aug 15-16 | HorrorFind | Adelphi, MD Join us at Horrorfind for the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY for Raw Dog Screaming Press! I'll be there, in addition to reading at this HUGE annual convention…
July 6, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

A New Blog: “The Popular Uncanny”

I'm building a new weblog here on gorelets.com called THE POPULAR UNCANNY. It's a supplement of sorts for my upcoming non-fiction title from publisher Guide Dog Books by the same name. The book is a critical study of theories of the Uncanny/"das Unheimliche" as they appear in advertising, film, bestsellers, and online. Chapters include examinations of such topics as the icon of the dismembered hand in the history of horror cinema, and a treatment of the advertising world's "Doublemint Twins" as uncanny doppelgangers. (The Popular Uncanny, btw, was originally my doctoral dissertation at the University of Oregon.) While the entries…
July 4, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Zombie Mall Reviews Audiovile

"What can I say? Holy effeing hell this is some brilliant sh*t! ...Audiovile has BITE. It sounds like something you would hear late at night in a darkened coffee shop, with wisps of old coffee wafting to your nose....It has a very unique style, something from a David Lynch film. It’s deep, grabs you by the ears and refuses to let go." -- from Brian Hardin's review of Audiovile at the Zombie Mall! Great review... and Zombie Mall is a great store, too, by the way! Here's a cool offer they gave us for the latest issue of The Goreletter:…
June 27, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

A Toast to Raw Dog Screaming…and a Discount!

If you'll indulge me for a moment: please pick up your wine glass, water bottle or coffee mug. I want to raise a high toast to a great publisher. This year marks Raw Dog Screaming Press' fifth anniversary. Anyone who knows the independent press, knows that simply surviving that long -- especially in today's publishing economy -- is a true milestone of success. I'm proud to be one of their authors, an early runt of their raw puppy litter -- and when I think about how far they've gone to support my experiments in horror, I am not only humbled,…
June 24, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Worlds of Horror

Get out of here and go read my guest blog entry at the Horror Library Blog-o-Rama, called "Worlds of Horror." (If you're on myspace, go here instead, where the conversation is). I issue horror fans a challenge to read more international horror writers and break out of their "literary isolationism" -- and I offer some titles to help you get started on a tour of scary world literature. Here's a very short excerpt: Browse your bookshelves and your video racks. What percentage of these titles are all published and produced in the same country in which you live? How many…
June 10, 2008Posted inArnzen News