Posted inArnzen News

“Dog Con” Launches a Yearlong Anniversary Party for Raw Dog Screaming Press

Welp, the very first ever "Dog Con" has come and gone, and as you'll see below, while I didn't go, I still went. The good folks at Raw Dog Screaming Press hosted a semi-private party-slash-convention to launch the celebration of their ten year anniversary, and from all reports, the festivities were nothing short of transformational. The press is renewed, launching a brand new science fiction imprint called Dog Star Books -- with Heidi Ruby Miller (co-editor of Many Genres One Craft) at the editorial helm. There will be a new website, a new focus on community, and pack of new…
October 24, 2012Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Attack of the Bleu Man Group — Live at Morgantown Poets

Happy Halloween! The Science Fiction Poetry Association has gathered together a number of new readings of poetry related to Halloween on their website, as part of an annual tradition of terror. I've shared a clip from my live reading at Morgantown Poets this past June, which was a lot of fun: "Attack of the Bleu Man Group." This poem, which appears in The Gorelets Omnibus, actually had its very first publication in the form of a musically-enhanced number on this website a few Halloweens ago, which you can still listen to right here. Visit the SFPA Halloween Readings to hear…
October 24, 2012Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inAmbulations

Poster for My Horror Writing Class at SHU in Spring

I love my day job, teaching terror. This class in "Horror and Suspense Writing" meets the requirements for our new undergraduate "Certificate in Genre Writing" at Seton Hill University. [Got a BA and looking to write a novel? Then check out our MFA in Writing Popular Fiction!] Recognize the image? That's "The Dark Librarian" from my flickr gallery.
October 21, 2012Posted inAmbulations1 Comment
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha!

Good morning. Let's turn on the time machine and watch an original nightmare cartoon from last century's Depression-era cultural dreamscape: "Bimbo's Initiation" (1931). This classic animation from the great Max Fleischer is a surrealist haunted house story as much as it is a edgy, pre-Hays Code, Betty Boop classic. Join the Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! "Bimbo's Initiation" is currently featured on the Fleischer Studios front page -- or you can catch it on YouTube If you like this kind of thing, you'll also dig Fleischer's "Swing You Sinners," which transpires in an uncanny graveyard. Both films are detailed in…
October 20, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons1 Comment