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Halloween Episode of Horrors at Crimewav.com

There's a bonus treat wiggling around in the filthy bottom of your Halloween candy sack....some hot brass! Crimewav.com -- an excellent podcast of noir crime fiction -- is featuring three of my music-enhanced horror stories in a special Halloween Episode of Horrors in a surprise Halloween release tonight.  It's a great way to get a free sampler from my cd,  Audiovile, and you can also hear the new track, "Attack of the Bleu Man Group," if you didn't check it out on gorelets.com earlier this week.  Check it out, and sample some of the other writers on the site, or…
October 31, 2010Posted inArnzen News
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Behind the Halloween Fire

Happy Halloween! Here's a treat: "Behind the Halloween Fire": original widescreen desktop wallpaper art available at the Arnzen Flickr Gallery, or click on the image above and then save to your computer. Don't forget: the Halloween Haiku Contest ends tonight (Oct 31st, 2010) at Midnight eastern.  Enter a haiku caption to one of the images in my "Scrawl" gallery for your chance to win a free copy of the new Richard Matheson tribute anthology, He Is Legend (which includes my story, "She Screech Like Me"), along with a surprise treat.  Be sure to read the haiku there for some fun…
October 31, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive2 Comments
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Halloween Haiku Contest 2010

[Note: this contest is now closed to entries (though comments on the gallery are always welcomed, poetic or not). Winner announced soon. -MAA]. This one's easy. Post a haiku poem related to one of the artpieces on my gallery. Just enter it in the "comments" field, along with your byline (name) and e-mail address. This will automatically publish the poem. All adult language will be censored, so please don't use any -- suggest and evoke, instead. Entries are due by Halloween (Oct 31st) at Midnight. Arbitrary rule: I expect your haiku to be 3 lines long, in a 5-7-5 syllable…
October 28, 2010Posted inData+Errata5 Comments
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Attack of the Bleu Man Group – Exclusive Halloween Audio Story

ATTACK OF THE BLEU MAN GROUP by Michael A. Arnzen (3.33 mins) [audio:Michael%20A.%20Arnzen_Gorelets.com_1_Bleu%20Man%20Group.mp3] DOWNLOAD .mp3 (3.4 mb) Happy Halloween! For a surprise treat this year, I am releasing a new humorous zombie story, exclusively in audio format, called "Attack of the Bleu Man Group." It's a wacky musical number, as much as a bizarro fiction reading, in the style of Audiovile. Without giving too much away, I'll just say two things about it: 1) yes, I meant to spell it "bleu," and, 2) "zombie mimes in black berets"!  Just crank up your speakers and press the red play button above.…
October 26, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive8 Comments
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Snark Infested Interview — and a Special October Offer

My hour long interview with the internet radio show, Snark Infested Waters, is now up on their website. It was a funny-yet-serious chat about all things horror, including such topics as: sick elephants, mutant beards, cows dangling from meat hooks, sleep apnea hoses, ebooks, M. Night Shamayalan, collectible books, goreno, the relationship between zombies and coffee, and much more. The interview includes three high quality streams of selected tracks from my horror-story-meets-sound experiment, Audiovile, followed by deep discussion of each. Check it out and have a few laughs. Snark Infest Waters is posting a new horror-related podcast every day in…
October 5, 2010Posted inArnzen News