Arnzen News

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…

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…

My books, Sportuary and Fluid Mosaic are going out of print on October 1st. Sportuary -- a collection of twisted poems about sports -- is exclusively available in e-book form only. Order direct from CyberPulp Digital for $3.00. Fluid Mosaic is a collection of my best short stories from the 90s.

I have VERY exciting news! Raw Dog Screaming Press has formally announced that they will be publishing my next novel, Play Dead, in a very special sculpted resin hardcover edition, the second in their "Grim Grimoire Bloodline" of highly collectable horror novel artifacts. (be sure to click that link for an example!) It will also be published in regular hardcover form in mid-2005. Here's the full press release from their site...I'll let it speak for itself: Press Release Raw Dog Screaming Press has reached an agreement with award-winning author Michael A. Arnzen to release Play Dead, his first horror novel…