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Winter Chills: Arnzen Interview with Non-Horror Reader Survey

Like reading, but don't really like horror fiction? WD Prescott, is running an interesting website bluntly called The Non-Horror Reader Survey that is studying what today's readers think about the modern horror genre. It features interviews with various readers, writers, and scholars, along with a research questionnaire you can fill out, if you want to participate. It's an interesting idea and you should chime in and get the discussion going. Prescott interviewed me this week. See "Winter Chills with Mike Arnzen". I talk about The Popular Uncanny, teaching horror in college, horror's relationship with humor and poetry, and all sorts…
December 22, 2010Posted inArnzen News
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“Dear Santa”: The Lost 1989 Manuscript

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Against my better judgment, for a gift I give you this Christmas story -- "Dear Santa" -- a long lost manuscript of the very first horror story I ever sold (to GAS magazine in 1989), but which ultimately never saw print. On the one hand, this is old and amateur enough to be most embarrassing. On the other hand, I think I've made a career of embarrassing myself. Enjoy? "Dear Santa" - a lost 1989 manuscript by Michael Arnzen (If you cannot read the above, see if you can click on the "view fullscreen" link at the top…
December 19, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment
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Graveyard Studies

I have been posting a series of digital experiments with cemetery photographs at my flickr account, like "Revenant" above.  Drop by my gallery on flickr and check out the "Graveyard Studies" set.  I'll keep posting new things there as they develop.  Please feel free to comment here or on the gallery itself.
November 16, 2010Posted inArnzen News
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Food Folks and Fun with Zombies at the Morgantown Poets

The Morgantown Poets society has posted video excerpts from my Halloween season poetry reading in Morgantown, West Virginia last month.  It was a goofy gory night of the bizarre, which I titled "Food, Folks and Fun with Zombies." I read three courses of horror:  a batch of gory "food" poems from a variety of sources (including crazy twitter poems and pieces from The Goreletter e-edition), a "folksy" ghost story (from the just-released collection, Legends of the Mountain State IV -- not appearing on the vid), and then I ended with a "fun" batch of zombie poems from my book, Rigormarole. …
November 7, 2010Posted inArnzen News3 Comments
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Enter The Nest

I've added a new sub page to gorelets.com that will collect and archive all my posts to twitter.com, so you don't have to go to their website and try to hunt for them. Enter The Nest. What I like about this is not only will it allow me to keep a record of all those brief snippets of weirdness that I've posted that are hard to find in twitter's archives, but it also lets readers like you search for things that you'd have a hard time finding on twitter itself, and it doesn't require signing up for twitter to do…
November 6, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange