Holiday Hugs & Kisses from gorelets.com: End of Year Contest Rally!

Happy holiday hugs and kisses! All the New Year's contests have ended now and the grand prize winner is announced below. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED. Subscribe to the Goreletter (free) for future chances to win free books and more! Aside from creeping you out with those uncanny body parts above, the best way I could think of to give you a holiday gift was to run random draw contests to finish out the year! There will be several rotating giveaways, so come back to this page routinely between now and New Year's Eve. For the first Xmas round of…

The Cat With Hands by Robert Morgan

Maybe you wouldn't call this a cartoon, but I don't care, because you need to see this. The Cat with Hands (2001) is an awesome short film by award-winning British filmmaker Robert Morgan, mixing live action and animated wax in a very uncanny and disturbing way. Film Threat magazine called it "mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to write a horror movie. Not because of what Robert Morgan does, but because of what he doesn’t do." True. But I'd say what he does accomplish in this film is also just as brilliant. Morgan's latest film is Bobby Yeah (see review…

Arnzen Coming to Neumann University on 10.26.12

[As announced on The Popular Uncanny webpage:] I will be giving a talk about "The Popular Uncanny", free and open to the public, at Neumann University (near Philadelphia, PA) on Oct 26th. Come join us at 4:30 p.m. in the Bruder Life Center. In the spirit of Halloween, there will be weirdness, laughter, and intriguing conversation, followed by a book signing for my new, massive poetry collection, The Gorelets Omnibus and other Arnzen titles. Read more details from Neumann University. Or check the event information on Facebook.

Fall 2012 Appearances for Michael Arnzen

OCT 13 11a-4p | Frostburg, MD Western Maryland Indie Lit Festival Downtown Frostburg Arnzen will attend with several Raw Dog Screaming Press authors, including Jennifer Barnes, John Edward Lawson, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller, and K. Ceres Wright. The event, sponsored by the Frostburg State University Center for Creative Writing, brings together editors and publishers with writers and educators of the local community, and features panel discussions on various creative genres, DIY publishing, self-publishing, promotion and marketing, writing local, and reading and writing online. The event is free and open to the public, with sessions and book sales available…

Upcoming Arnzen Events – Spring 2012

MARCH 21-25, 2012 | Orlando, FL | ICFA-33 DIVERSE READINGS & PANELS "The Monstrous Fantastic": The 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts will be held at the Orlando Airport Marriott. I will be respondent to a roundtable discussion about my article on horror pedagogy, "The Unlearning: Horror and Transformative Theory." I'm also scheduled to read from my new book, The Gorelets Omnibus, and moderate a panel on contemporary horror film directors. Other writers in attendance include featured guests China Mieville and Kelly Link, Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, Andy Duncan, Bryan Dietrich and many more.     MARCH…