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chauncy

"six short films about chauncy the serial killer" -- one of my favorite short poems -- was just published online at The Dream People for their "Bizarre Horror" issue. This poem will also appear in print in Bare Bone magazine later this month.
October 5, 2004Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

SFReader digs 100 Jolts

From the new review of 100 Jolts at SFReader.com: "While writing this review I re-read a number of these stories and was amazed all over again by their sheer inventiveness, their razor sharp prose, and the perfectly streamlined delivery of so many of them. All of the one hundred stories presented here are entertaining. A number of them are classics. Michael Arnzen should be proud of what he has accomplished. 100 JOLTS is the creation of a very talented writer at the top of his game."-- Ray Wallace 100 Jolts is available for a little over $10 at amazon.com
September 23, 2004Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

In the Creature Corner

A great review of my flash fiction collection, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, just went up at the multimedia horror review site, Creature Corner. Here's a quip from reviewer Randy Schaub: Arnzen's collection is an impressive offering. As short as the stories are, they will haunt you for days (I'm still shaking off the effects of Stress Toy)....100 Jolts would make a great Halloween stocking stuffer (at the risk of giving Mr. Arnzen a backhanded compliment, his stories would find an audience with even the most attention bereft audience), and jaded horror veterans would certainly welcome this book as a…
September 18, 2004Posted inArnzen News
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Early Blurb for Play Dead

Early praise (a book cover "blurb") has come in for my forthcoming novel, Play Dead, from writer Lance Olsen: "PLAY DEAD reads like white lightning. The wonderfully grungy characters and staccato-fast chapters grab you by the face, haul you in, and won't let go, while the richly metaphoric style begs for savoring on every page. Arnzen wears a wry gaming grin even as he reminds us the universe is little more than a horrorshow comprised of pure plain chance. This terrific (in all senses of the word) novel hits the ground running and just won't stop." --Lance Olsen, author of…
September 8, 2004Posted inArnzen News
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Reader’s Guide to 100 Jolts

Because my flash fiction collection, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, was getting some attention from creative writing teachers -- and because I know some folks were teaching selected excerpts to various classes -- my publisher and I thought it might be worthwhile to produce a free teacher's guide/reader's guide to accompany it. I finished writing the guide this summer and you can now download it free as an .rtf file (MS Word ~500k) or .pdf file (Adobe ~100k) If you're a teacher or someone who's running a lecture on the craft of horror fiction, you might find it useful, whether…
September 3, 2004Posted inArnzen News, Instigation