Raising the Dead Draft (& Other Fall Events)
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Raising the Dead Draft (& Other Fall Events)

Take a quick gander at my events page, and you'll see that I'm lining up a number of readings, talks and writing workshops for the 2022 Harvest season... hope you're able to join me at one of them! I always love reading live. But here I want to highlight a one-hour writing workshop I'm running that is also part of an awesome book launch. From Oct 8th-10th, Raw Dog Screaming Press and AllAccessCon are hosting "Writing Poetry in the Dark" -- a unique event featuring a roster of top horror poets, all talking shop to help writers learn about the…
September 25, 2022Posted inArnzen News
Blackjack Book Sale — 1 week only — 7/14-7/21!
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Blackjack Book Sale — 1 week only — 7/14-7/21!

Buy One for $10 or All Three for $21! SALE ENDS 7/21 at midnight For one week only (7/14-7/21/22) I'm offering a special on some of the books I've got on hand, leftover from con trips and books signings! Get Play Dead, Grave Markings or 100 Jolts in paperback for just $9 each...or all three books in a bundle for $21 (while supplies last)! Postage is NOT included, but I will price it at an additional $2 for the first two books in the USA. (International orders will be an additional $15 postage total no matter how many books, no…
July 14, 2022Posted inArnzen News
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
Keep on Writing in the Dark
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Keep on Writing in the Dark

If you came to this post looking for Instigation, you've got it. And there's a prompt at the very end. Today one of my favorite publishers, Raw Dog Screaming Press (the team who brought you The Gorelets Omnibus and 100 Jolts and others), announced that they are taking pre-orders for my friend Tim Waggoner's latest writer's how-to guide, Writing in The Dark: The Workbook. I want you to buy it (and when I get to teach horror writing at Seton Hill University -- where, incidentally, Tim has taught beside me -- you can bet I'll be assigning this book). It's…
March 31, 2022Posted inArnzen News, Instigation
Goreletter 13.2 Contest Winner Announced
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Goreletter 13.2 Contest Winner Announced

In case you missed it, The Goreletter Vol. 13, #2 ("Necro Omicron") was delivered to mailing list subscribers on 1/28/2022. If you didn't get yours, please check your spam folder -- or re-enter your email address in the subscription page, or contact me. You also can always find a text-only version at The Repository archives! This issue featured a contest (as they usually do) -- this one was entered simply by telling friends on social media about the Goreletter -- and the winner this round was writer and editor, Den Shewman, a great guy who I recall fondly from his…
February 15, 2022Posted inData+Errata