Posted inData+Errata

Gorelets.com Revamped!

I have finally overhauled my primary website, gorelets.com. It was time to rearrange the furniture. Please drop by and take a look around. You'll bump into a few kinks, but you'll find lots of fun new things to check out. I'm still learning (since I do most of this web work by hand), but I've borrowed from open source materials out there and have finally got the site up and running so it can "go live." The Goreletter is now fully-integrated across the site, with rss feed links and even headlines from this weblog now appearing automatically on the front…
February 4, 2007Posted inData+Errata
Posted inArnzen News

AUDIOVILE is coming…

I'm thrilled to finally announce that in Spring 2007, Raw Dog Screaming Press will be releasing an audio companion to my book, 100 Jolts, called AUDIOVILE. Above I've posted a mock-up of the fantastic cover art by painter Matt Sesow. And I think it's safe to say: it sounds just like it looks. Audiovile is more than just storytelling. It will be an entertaining compact disc featuring 16 audio performances of horror stories from 100 Jolts and elsewhere. I'm narrating all the tracks, setting them to my own music (with a little help here and there), and mixing in all…
January 30, 2007Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Dissecting Arnzen

Those with an academic inclination might be interested in DISSECTIONS: The Journal of Contemporary Horror. This brand new journal from the UK seeks, according to editor Gina Wisker, "to encourage and develop ongoing dialogues about horror, its origins, formats and effects, in a way which celebrates an age-old, newly metamorphosing scariness, and the way it homes in on our cultural, social, psychological and personal fears, disturbing what is familiar." The debut issue includes my essay, "Scary New Media," which explores the way the internet is used as both an artistic and commercial medium to supplement horror stories and films. Dissections…
January 11, 2007Posted inArnzen News
Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews

Screaming in Code

Have you ever read Thomas Wiloch? If not, maybe you should. Don't just take my word for it. Thomas Ligotti says Wiloch is writing "what deserve to be included among the best prose poems ever written in any language." And like Ligotti, Wiloch has been quietly working away in relative obscurity in his own "niche" for two decades, developing a one-of-a-kind approach to a form he almost entirely owns. Wiloch writes surrealist short-short pieces, often no longer than a page long, that are as philosophical as they are whimsical, as clever as they are poetic, and as disturbing as they…
December 12, 2006Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews