Legends of the Mountain State

Woodland Press is NOW SHIPPING the latest volume (#4) in the LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE ghost tale series. Featuring transformations of "Appalachian myths, ghost tales and folklore" derived from West Virginian lore, this book is sure to be a gem, with stories by Gary Braunbeck, Brian Hatcher, Steve Rasnic Tem, Elizabeth Massie, Lisa Morton, and a raft of other horror greats. My story involves a ghost child at the end of Childer's Road... I'll say no more than that. Order the book directly from the publisher for $18.95 to get it as soon as it's release in mid October,…

Now on Flickr

I've been feeling artsy this summer. Indulge me. I have begun taking strange photographs of things like abandoned hospitals, so I thought I'd join flickr to have a place to put these. Come warm the place up with a comment or something. You can also see some of my latest weird drawings -- like the piece below, entitled "Shark Starvation" -- at the gorelets.com gallery.

RDSP Retrospective Event: Book Deal, Chat, and Writing Contest!

[UPDATE: The writing contest has now ended. I was asked to judge the finalists, and have submitted my selections to Raw Dog Screaming Press, who have now announced the winners and published the winning entry. Thanks to all who participated!] For the month of August, Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my novel, Play Dead) is offering a sweet "Retrospective" book bundle of their bestselling short-story collections, which packages together my book, 100 JOLTS, with Jeremy C. Shipp's Sheep and Wolves and Adam Golaski's Worse Than Myself, for a VERY low price ($30 for paperbacks, $12 for Ebooks). Orders get…

Arnzen MySpace Profile to End Aug 1st 2010

Alert! I have decided to cancel the arnzen profile pages at myspace.com. Go kiss it goodbye before August 1st, when it will meet its demise. I always hated the 'look' of myspace.com, but I enjoyed the company of many friends, newfound and old, once I signed up. But the primary reason I joined myspace years ago (in Spring 2007) was to promote my CD, Audiovile. It gave me a convenient way to upload and share mp3 tracks from the disc. Nowadays I know how to stream music on THIS site myself, and the CD is also sampled everywhere, like on…

Weird Juice

Stabble Fungalberry Kiweird Cocktail Poisonberry Phlegmonaid (With Extra Pulp) Embalmigranate Bashin' Berry Scabapple Scrape Juice Angerine Spineapple Strango Slaughtermelon Smoothie Crampelope Slimeade Neck Nectar Horrange Slitrus Lime Gaspberry Upchuck Cherry Slopical Punch Scarfruit Granbury Scarrot Leech