Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

My Zombie Haiku: All Halloween Day and Night Long

  Happy official Halloween day.  I have a lot of work to do this afternoon.  But I'm going to personally challenge myself to write at least one horror haiku poem an hour (at minimum) and post it on my twitter page all day long...till midnight. I'm giving them all a zombie theme, partially inspired by the recent release of the sequel to Ryan Mecum's great Zombie Haiku book from a few years ago:  Dawn of Zombie Haiku and all the great #zombiehaiku he's been publishing on twitter himself over the past few days. To read the zombie haiku, you can…
October 31, 2011Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

A Baby Costume for Halloween

This is probably the most literal Baby Costume I've ever seen. via benjikane.livejournal.com Imagine if you answer the door on Halloween night, and all of these little wrigglers whisper "Trick or Treat" in infantile glee as they reach out at you for some candy. And in the center of the undulating gyre, "Daddy" would just stare at you. This image is shared from the "Halloween Countdown" over on horror author Benjamin Kane Ethridge's weblog, Cloth's Chapel, in the entry for Halloween baby costumes.
October 22, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange3 Comments
Posted inArnzen News

Food Folks and Fun with Zombies at the Morgantown Poets

The Morgantown Poets society has posted video excerpts from my Halloween season poetry reading in Morgantown, West Virginia last month.  It was a goofy gory night of the bizarre, which I titled "Food, Folks and Fun with Zombies." I read three courses of horror:  a batch of gory "food" poems from a variety of sources (including crazy twitter poems and pieces from The Goreletter e-edition), a "folksy" ghost story (from the just-released collection, Legends of the Mountain State IV -- not appearing on the vid), and then I ended with a "fun" batch of zombie poems from my book, Rigormarole. …
November 7, 2010Posted inArnzen News3 Comments
Posted inData+Errata

2010 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners

The 2010 Halloween Haiku Caption Contest was difficult to judge, and all the entries were fantastic. Thank you for captioning all those weird art pieces!  We'll do it again sometime. It was difficult to pick one, but to me the clear winner is FJ Bergmann (fibitz.com), for penning a gross little number inspired by the art piece, "Fountain of Worm." Bergmann's haiku has dynamic action, impending doom, good reference to the image, and great language use, all telling a unique story in just 17 syllables!: FOUNTAIN OF WORM quivering with need undulating, gorged with blood the gut villi wait --…
November 2, 2010Posted inData+Errata5 Comments