Posted inData+Errata

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[UPDATE, Oct 2010: THE FREE E-BOOK OFFER DESCRIBED BELOW IS NO LONGER VALID. Please visit amazon.com for your copy, cheap.] I've just published I'm getting geared up to finish the next e-mail edition of The Goreletter, so I thought I'd post a little incentive for readers to subscribe (free) so they won't miss a beat as this award-winning newsletter launches into its sixth volume of all things weird, wacky, wicked and wobbly. I try to make every issue a combination of original material with "best of blog" excerpts and often include coupons and contests for free swag (or as I…
October 7, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

Scuttlebuggery: Soccer for Scarabs

Scuttlebuggery is a stylishly steampunk online promotional game for the goth band Johnny Hollow, brought to you by the geniuses at My Pet Skeleton Productions (maker of "A Murder of Scarecrows" featured here awhile back). In this game you play a scuttlebug -- a round beetle who must figure out how to push bubbles of absinthe toward a drain, dodging beetles and fluttering moths along the way. It's like soccer for scarabs. And though it sounds like child's play, it is a Sisyphean challenge that will likely make you appreciate the vast labor of the insect world, scuttling all around…
September 27, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
Posted inData+Errata

Play Dead in Common

Lots of little things going on, so I thought I'd post a bunch of random news all in one batch: + WD Prescott is running a neat contest on his website with a chance to win a signed copy of my out of print novel, Play Dead! + You can now order the 'spoon river horror poetry anthology,' Death In Common, edited by Rich Ristow, on amazon.com + Two of my critical essays on THE EXORCIST will appear in Studies in the Horror Film: The Exorcist, which promises to be a fantastic -- if not the definitive -- collection of…
September 25, 2009Posted inData+Errata
Posted inArnzen News

Pluck Your Last Drink Bird Head

Awhile ago I got the strangest e-mail message from World Fantasy Award-winning author (and old friend) Jeff Vandermeer. It read: Who is Last Drink Bird Head? Story, anecdote, 500 words. Don't Think: just write. And I did. My story was but one of a long list of short-shorts that now appear in Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity -- with all proceeds going to proliteracy.org. The results are pretty astounding, ranging from hilariously surreal to pensively chilling to deeply touching. The publisher writes: "Last Drink Bird Head is a blues musician, a performance artist, a type of alcohol,…
September 24, 2009Posted inArnzen News