Arnzen News

I'm happy to announce that FREAKCIDENTS is officially a finalist for the 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection! FREAKCIDENTS (think "freak+accidents") is a series of character studies of wild mutants and crazy sideshow attractions. This title has always been one of my personal favorites. You can still read some excellent reviews and sharp literary criticism about the book online in Sidereality, Strange Horizons, FeoAmante.com, and Chiaroscuro. Shocklines Press still has copies of this limited edition book available in an affordable trade paperback and a short run of very special signed/lettered hardcovers. UPDATE, 4/14: Shocklines is…

Random updates... I've started to post messages to a new weblog I'll intermittently keep on Amazon.com. New entries will pop up on my book pages, or you can find me on their Author's Directory. Or you can just leap right to it by reading my first entry. Novello Publishers have announced that they'll be publishing my novella, Licker, later this Fall, in a limited edition chapbook. Licker will be a humorous horror story about a boy who is having some very bizarre problems with his tongue. I think this is likely to be the funniest, weirdest, sickest thing I've ever…

Some bits and bites of news... The new dark poetry webzine, Spiderwords, has posted a fantastic review of my Fairwood Press chapbook, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems. Reviewer Geoffrey Goodwin writes: In eleven lines or less, no line greater than eight words, Arnzen has created bite-sized bits of insistent terror...these poems are definitive and powerful as sexy as surgery. Bound by the little rules that shaped his dark vision, like Picasso embracing the constraints of the Blue Period or Cubism, these poems are stronger for their little glimpses into Arnzen's febrile imagination. Spiderwords is also running a fun contest for an essay…

Here's the just-released cover graphic for Poe's Lighthouse -- a collection of "collaborations" between modern day writers and Edgar Allan Poe! This book should be released within the next month; it's a limited edition, so it's likely to sell out. If you find that you can't get it directly from CD Books, try Shocklines.com. My contribution, "The Dead Lantern," expands on Poe's unfinished fragment, "The Lighthouse." And there are too many other great writers inside the book to mention here. Read more on The Goreletter, or head right over to Cemetery Dance Books. For more on the cover artist, visit…