New Class at Horror U: “Shifting Shapes”
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New Class at Horror U: “Shifting Shapes”

Registration for my next Horror University course has opened up! "Shifting Shapes" will be a 2-hour online session focusing on strategies for depicting transformation. Visit https://horror-university.teachable.com or see my Events page for more details. The class runs LIVE online on 2/5/24 at 8pm est, but registrants can also view the recorded session and access secret shared materials afterward. (Look for my past Horror U sessions on "The Uncanny and The Abject" and "Treacherous Settings," while you're there! HWA members may qualify for discounts! DESCRIPTION: Hair sprouting from flesh, everywhere, as a man contorts into a terrifying wolf. Tentacles exploding from…
December 11, 2023Posted inArnzen News
“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
Horror Interviews on The Book Case podcast
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Horror Interviews on The Book Case podcast

If you're not listening to The Book Case with Kate & Charlie Gibson (of Good Morning America fame) then you're missing out on some great conversations about not only today's bestselling books, but also about the horror genre itself. Kate is a lively interviewer and such an intelligent reader -- and lately has been having a blast trying to get her father Charlie to read and enjoy and understand the horror genre in his retirement, as together they read current books and talk about them with their guest authors. They also routinely interview people in the book business and include…
August 19, 2023Posted inArnzen News
The 2023 SFPA Science Fiction Poetry Contest
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The 2023 SFPA Science Fiction Poetry Contest

[UPDATE: The results of the 2023 SFPA Poetry contest have been posted! You can read the winning and runner-up entries online. Congrats to the winners, and a big thank you to the HUNDREDS who entered...it was a pleasure reading each and every piece.] I have been a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association almost as long as I've been writing. I've published in their journal Star*Line (and the affiliated one, Eye to the Telescope),I served as Secretary/Treasurer for a few years in the 90s, I've recorded recitations of poems for their online Halloween audio series, I've helped with the…
July 5, 2023Posted inArnzen News
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