“Beyond Undead”: A New Short-Short Graphic Novel
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“Beyond Undead”: A New Short-Short Graphic Novel

Happy October! My longtime friend Eric Hoffman and I have a Halloween surprise for you... a graphic fiction adaptation of my short-short story, "Beyond Undead"! Eric Hoffman ingeniously reframes the tale, intensifying the emotional elements of the piece with expressive line art. Check this free comic out at pancyfancer.com and be sure to browse around and see what else Hoffman has been up to lately. Eric, my old Army buddy, has performed comedy in Chicago and LA, starred in a few indie hits, and has written for several popular shows, from the film Girlfriend's Day with Bob Odenkirk to skits…
October 1, 2023Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Raising the Dead Draft (& Other Fall Events)
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Raising the Dead Draft (& Other Fall Events)

Take a quick gander at my events page, and you'll see that I'm lining up a number of readings, talks and writing workshops for the 2022 Harvest season... hope you're able to join me at one of them! I always love reading live. But here I want to highlight a one-hour writing workshop I'm running that is also part of an awesome book launch. From Oct 8th-10th, Raw Dog Screaming Press and AllAccessCon are hosting "Writing Poetry in the Dark" -- a unique event featuring a roster of top horror poets, all talking shop to help writers learn about the…
September 25, 2022Posted inArnzen News
Keep on Writing in the Dark
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Keep on Writing in the Dark

If you came to this post looking for Instigation, you've got it. And there's a prompt at the very end. Today one of my favorite publishers, Raw Dog Screaming Press (the team who brought you The Gorelets Omnibus and 100 Jolts and others), announced that they are taking pre-orders for my friend Tim Waggoner's latest writer's how-to guide, Writing in The Dark: The Workbook. I want you to buy it (and when I get to teach horror writing at Seton Hill University -- where, incidentally, Tim has taught beside me -- you can bet I'll be assigning this book). It's…
March 31, 2022Posted inArnzen News, Instigation
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New Online Course: Treacherous Settings

"Treacherous Settings": Live Monday, Jan 31st 2022, 8 P.M. EST -- Horror University Online Also Available Asynchronously Following the Event! DESCRIPTION: In space, no one can hear you scream. Here there be monsters. Who’s behind the door? Settings can be as scary and surprisingly deadly as the creatures and killers who populate our books. From craggy caverns to undersea cities, haunted houses to alien landscapes, they can threaten characters with their very lives, and their inherent fear factor always offers a potential stage for delightfully dangerous action, creative conflict, and shocking surprise. In this 2-hour session we'll discover different methods…
December 24, 2021Posted inArnzen News
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Joe-La Dowdy Wins the Instigation Marathon!

Imagine a red devil jumping for joy, wagging its deadly tail, and applauding with hooves ablaze -- that's me, cheering for writer Joe La Dowdy, who just published her 365th creative blog entry, marking a full year of dark flash fiction and devious poems inspired by the 365 prompts in my book, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side! That's right. She wrote 365 stories. Jealous? You should be. I am! READ THEM. Joe-La's accomplishment is not easy. It takes a tremendous amount of stamina and discipline to return to the computer, every single day, to do yet another exercise,…
July 5, 2016Posted inInstigation1 Comment