A Truly “Black” Friday

Longtime friend and online horror bookseller Shocklines.com is in the process of closing down and selling off its remaining stock, and today they announced a terrific 50% discount on all their remaining Raw Dog Screaming Press titles (which include not only some of my own books, but also great works by Scott Thomas, Jeremy C. Shipp, John Edward Lawson, D. Harlan Wilson, Forrest Aguirre, Ronald Damien Malfi, Matthew Warner, Amy Grech, and more)! Go to the RDSP publisher page at shocklines.com, put as many titles into your cart as you want, and use the following coupon code during the checkout process…

Dark Regions 40% Off Sale

Whoa Nelly... Dark Regions is offering 40% off when you buy a four book lot (just $39.95 + postage) from Horror Mall.  You'll get my Bram Stoker Award winning collection, Proverbs for Monsters, plus the Stoker winner for poetry, Vectors by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon, Laura Underwood's Song of Silver, and the AWESOME horror collection by Mark Rainey, Other Gods.  That's like getting four trade paperbacks from Dark Regions Press for the price of one hardcover...a schweet deal!  Nab it.

June Caption Contest Winners!

The latest issue of The Goreletter featured a contest with prizes for the captions rated as favorites to the following wild image by Proverbs for Monsters artist, Matt Schuster: About forty people entered some fantastic and hilarious captions and you can read all of them under the original post for chuckles. Thanks to everyone for participating; I enjoyed all the entries. Matt and I settled on the following three for prizes: "The Not-So-Fantastic Fifth" by Kurt Newton (prize: The B*tchfight ARC + Heaven's Devils) "'Are you leaving me because I’m balding, Susan?'" by Steven Pirie (prize: Signed Licker + AoD…

Goreletter 5.03 Mailed

The Goreletter Vol. 5, #3, with the title "Wacky!" was mailed to subscribers on 27/June/2008 @ 10 pm est. It contains extra material not available here on the weblog version, including contests and exclusive discounts on several horrifying goodies! If you subscribe and did not receive this issue, e-mail me for a replacement or review the archives at gorelets.com. Subscribe today...it's painless, fun and free! (Well...probably not completely pain-free). Issues are mailed only four or five times a year, so your inbox won't be glutted. -- Mike Arnzen

5.02 Contest Winners Announced

"He has his mother's eye(s), and his father's teeth." -- Dean M. Watts "I'm James Newman, and I endorsed this message. Paid for by The Union of Concerned Ophthalmologists." -- Jason Jack Miller Congratulations Dean and Jason! You've both won free copies of the Exquisite Corpse DVD for entering the photo caption contest from the latest issue of The Goreletter! (Other entrants can be found on the Arnzen myspace page). And many thanks again to James Newman (and family) for sharing that bloody wonderful photo (itself a prize-winner last Halloween!) Subscribers to the e-mail edition are eligible for contest prizes…