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Winter Chills: Arnzen Interview with Non-Horror Reader Survey

Like reading, but don't really like horror fiction? WD Prescott, is running an interesting website bluntly called The Non-Horror Reader Survey that is studying what today's readers think about the modern horror genre. It features interviews with various readers, writers, and scholars, along with a research questionnaire you can fill out, if you want to participate. It's an interesting idea and you should chime in and get the discussion going. Prescott interviewed me this week. See "Winter Chills with Mike Arnzen". I talk about The Popular Uncanny, teaching horror in college, horror's relationship with humor and poetry, and all sorts…
December 22, 2010Posted inArnzen News
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Authors: Dead or Alive

αΩ   Dead or Alive? How many of your authors are dead? Dead: 49 / Alive: 116 / Unknown: 153 / Not a Person: 1 Percent alive: 70.3% xo   The above is a report generated from a neat new analytical script that LibraryThing can do to your home bookshelves, called "Dead or Alive?" I sort of assumed I'd have more dead authors.  Ah well.  Ironically, they listed my own name as "Unknown"...and I found that a little soothing.  Call me anthropomorphic, but I think I'd rather be among those undead than "Not a Person". [Scrolled to the bottom ... They…
February 14, 2009Posted inSnippets of the Strange
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What Shocks You?

OLD SPARKY - Nothing shocks you. Fire it up, you can take 100 JOLTS and then some! In fact, they'll have to throw the switch 2 or 3 times to finish you off. Ride the lightning baby! For more info on this book visit http://www.rawdogscreaming.com What shocks you? brought to you by Quizilla
September 9, 2004Posted inWeblog Exclusive