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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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Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

Orphan Feast is a delightfully strange game, inspired by a combination of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Dickens' Oliver Twist -- with a little Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton thrown into the mix. In Orphan Feast you play Creeky Tom, a ghoulish rogue whose goal is to prowl the dark alleys and rundown streets of old London and capture the homeless street urchins you'll find everywhere there, gathering them in a sack, while avoiding a cast of crazy characters out to foil you in bizarre ways. The orphans -- if you make it back to your lair -- are…
December 23, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
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Not Dead Yet: The Listmaniacal Archive

I've gathered all the books I've reviewed in The Goreletter (since 2002) into some fun listmania lists over at amazon.com, and I'll keep adding titles to them from the "Not Dead Yet" department into the future. I've also been having way too much fun trolling around amazon for weird discoveries, and I have compiled a few other funky lists, like the Goofy Gory Gifts Galore list and other novelty lists. I'm apparently a listmaniac. After many years of neglect, I have updated my author profile on amazon.com, where you can find more weirdness and links to many of my books…
November 29, 2009Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews1 Comment
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Clips from My Halloween Reading at SHU 2009

Last week the English Club at Seton Hill University invited me to read at a Halloween event they sponsored, and I had a lot of fun reading some new story sketches and poems with them. I recorded it, so I could share a few audio clips here in celebration. Click the play button below to hear "Endless Shrimp" (2:10), "Silence" (3:17) and "The Christmas Doll" (0:46). Happy Halloween (...and Christmas, too!) [audio:Michael Arnzen_Endless Shrimp-Live 2009.mp3,Michael Arnzen_Silence-Live 2009.mp3,Michael Arnzen_The Christmas Doll-Live 2009.mp3|titles=Endless Shrimp-Live 2009,Silence-Live 2009,The Christmas Doll-Live 2009|artists=Michael Arnzen,Michael Arnzen,Michael Arnzen] If you like it, investigate my produced CD -- Audiovile!…
October 25, 2009Posted inWeblog Exclusive
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

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.]
December 25, 2008Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month