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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 inArnzen News

Magazine of Bizarro Fiction

Just learned that issue #4 of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction is now being mailed (early birds can order it now from amazon.com). This special "Werewolves and Shapeshifters" issue was edited by John Skipp, and includes the first appearance of the piece I read at last year's Bizarro Day event at Backlist Bookstore, called "Endless Shrimp." Other great writers, including Jeremy Robert Johnson, Nicole Cushing, Robert Devereaux, D. Harlan Wilson, and Cody Coodfellow, also appear within. These are all some of the smartest and weirdest writers I know, so this is sure to be a great volume. p.s. Speaking of…
January 18, 2011Posted inArnzen News
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
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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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Don’t Stop Bleeding

Just a vampire girl Livin' in a zombie world She took the midnight train Goin' anywhere Just a city boy Dead and raised in south Detroit He took a bite of brain Goin' anywhere Find a human in a smoky room The smell of blood and cheap perfume For a lifetime they can share the night It goes on and on and on and on Strangers shuffling Up and down the boulevard Shadows searching In the night Undead people Living just to find emotion Feasting somewhere In the night Slurping hearts till the lust's fulfilled Everybody's out to kill Doin'…
January 18, 2010Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems12 Comments