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Horror Haiku Contest

Jimmy Z. -- the new purveyor of Horror-web.com -- has invited me to judge a horror haiku contest they're presently running, with cash prizes. If you write poetry, or simply love to wax pithy with expressions of zombie philosophy, you still have time to send him your submissions. The deadline is Feb 1st. You might read Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku for inspiration.
January 27, 2009Posted inData+Errata
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Write Horror at Seton Hill University

How cool is my University? The above image is a sneak preview of an ad campaign they'll be releasing soon for our graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction, where students can earn a Master's degree for writing a horror novel. Instructors include luminaries in the horror/fantasy genre you might be familiar with, like Tim Waggoner, Gary Braunbeck, Timons Esaias and Lawrence C. Connolly and many others. We're currently brainstorming "taglines" to go with the above image (like: "Don't fear commercial success.") so if you want to recommend any (before my meeting with the powers that be on 1/28), go right…
January 26, 2009Posted inWeblog Exclusive
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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
December 10, 2008Posted inData+Errata
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June Caption Contest Winners!

The latest issue of The Goreletter featured a contest with prizes for the captions rated as favorites to the following wild image by Proverbs for Monsters artist, Matt Schuster: About forty people entered some fantastic and hilarious captions and you can read all of them under the original post for chuckles. Thanks to everyone for participating; I enjoyed all the entries. Matt and I settled on the following three for prizes: "The Not-So-Fantastic Fifth" by Kurt Newton (prize: The B*tchfight ARC + Heaven's Devils) "'Are you leaving me because I’m balding, Susan?'" by Steven Pirie (prize: Signed Licker + AoD…
July 12, 2008Posted inData+Errata
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Enter a Caption and Win!

UPDATE: CONTEST DEADLINE HAS PASSED... COMMENTS ON THIS ENTRY ARE NOW CLOSED! Time for a new contest! Come up with a witty caption for the image below and you will be eligible to win one of the following "book & comic series" prizes (...there will be two winners chosen!) : An almost-impossible-to-find signed "Advanced Review Copy" of The B*tchfight by Arnzen + the first four issues of Jai Nitz' horror comic series, Heaven's Devils (Image). A signed copy of Arnzen's (now out-of-print and still out-of-its-mind) novella, Licker + the first four issues of Army of Darkness vs. Reanimator (Dynamite Comics).…
June 12, 2008Posted inWeblog Exclusive