The Roundtable of Terror

You can now listen to the *complete* roundtable conversation between Lawrence C. Connolly, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck and myself, recorded in late September 2008, called "The Business/Life of Writing Horror and Dark Fantasy". It's one of the best panels on the genre I've ever been a part of, in professional studio-quality audio. The discussion goes into very deep, and sometimes very funny, territory, really showing the complexity of the genre and where horror fiction is headed. Hosted by Doug Dangler at the Ohio State U Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, you can download it from…

Merry Creepy Christmas

  Happy holidays! Ring in the season with the Creepy Christmas Film Festival -- a series a short holiday-themed horror films posted all month long at Glass Eye Pix! [The Little Stocking Stuffer image in this post is from the Creepy Advent Calendar by animator Beck Underwood, which helped inspire the Festival project.]

Horror Library III Contest (ended)

Visit The Horror Library Blog-o-Rama for a very easy, but quickly ending, chance to win free horror fiction, including the recently-published collection, Horror Library Vol. 3. UPDATE:  This contest has ended.  Visit the Horror Library Blog for winners list. Didn't win?  You should look into buying HL3 anyway...it's an outstanding collection of stories! -- Mike Arnzen

A Truly “Black” Friday

Longtime friend and online horror bookseller Shocklines.com is in the process of closing down and selling off its remaining stock, and today they announced a terrific 50% discount on all their remaining Raw Dog Screaming Press titles (which include not only some of my own books, but also great works by Scott Thomas, Jeremy C. Shipp, John Edward Lawson, D. Harlan Wilson, Forrest Aguirre, Ronald Damien Malfi, Matthew Warner, Amy Grech, and more)! Go to the RDSP publisher page at shocklines.com, put as many titles into your cart as you want, and use the following coupon code during the checkout process…