“Beyond Undead”: A New Short-Short Graphic Novel
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“Beyond Undead”: A New Short-Short Graphic Novel

Happy October! My longtime friend Eric Hoffman and I have a Halloween surprise for you... a graphic fiction adaptation of my short-short story, "Beyond Undead"! Eric Hoffman ingeniously reframes the tale, intensifying the emotional elements of the piece with expressive line art. Check this free comic out at pancyfancer.com and be sure to browse around and see what else Hoffman has been up to lately. Eric, my old Army buddy, has performed comedy in Chicago and LA, starred in a few indie hits, and has written for several popular shows, from the film Girlfriend's Day with Bob Odenkirk to skits…
October 1, 2023Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Still from "Zombeanie Babies"
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The Gorelets Omnibus – Cool 99c SALE Videos

Raw Dog Screaming Press has been running a .99c sale on The Gorelets Omnibus ebook edition on Amazon.com -- if you've never read the book, now's your chance to get a copy very cheap! But act quick, because this deal runs out on June 4th, 2023. Or better yet, get two books, with a similar deal being offered on The Underside of the Rainbow by BE Burkhead (who you can see reading a gorelets-inspired poem from that book, by memory, at a fantastic reading event we shared several Halloweens ago in Baltimore, to launch the 20th anniversary edition of Grave…
May 28, 2023Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Kaiju Death Spiral: A Class Poetry eBook
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Kaiju Death Spiral: A Class Poetry eBook

Happy National Poetry Month once again! This year, I'm sharing the work of students in my current undergraduate world literature course in Global Horror, where we're currently wrapping up the term at Seton Hill University. In that class, we studied everything from current folk horror novels to Serbian folk vampires. One week, we practiced Japanese poetic forms, inspired by our study of the Godzilla kaiju films, Junji Ito's classic horror manga, Uzumaki, and Jisei death poems. The results were so good, I compiled them into a fun and morbidly twisted ebook, called Kaiju Death Spiral, featuring a fantastic piece of…
April 17, 2022Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
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Filing Jointly — a tax crime poem for 30 Days of The 5-2

Filing Jointly No matter what the Fed says, we always put the tax deadline in the calendar on the 14th so it sounds like a Valentine's Day date to review our year in April. This year is special because I am doing it alone, remembering him, accounting for his actions, and mine, itemizing all the entries. It's an emotional audit. I tear up as I write off the axe I'd hit him with, along with all the other tools I used afterward as "business expenses"; and I smile when I enter the checks I received from his life insurance --…
April 14, 2019Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
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Joltober 2018

I often intermittently post dark poetry and sick "very short stories" (sometimes called #vss) on social media, but to celebrate Halloween season this year, I've decided to post a new "jolt" each day to my twitter account throughout October 2018. Since my friends at Raw Dog Screaming Press helped instigate me, I thought it would be fitting to call it "Joltober" in tribute to 100 Jolts, which they published originally 14 years ago! Keep your eyes on this for a new horror story posted daily throughout this October ⚡️ “#Joltober: A Horror Story a Day for October (2018)”https://t.co/J3R4IpjcXr— Michael Arnzen…
October 3, 2018Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems