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WHAT ARE GORELETS?
An Introduction by Michael Arnzen
UNPLEASANT POEMS (The Original Gorelets, 2001-2)
Nails
Worm
Brain Chunks
grenemean
Velcro
Petfood Breakfast
Zombeanie Babies
Sonogram Surprise
Open Casket Upholstery
Sunk
Collarbone Custard
Facemask
Ygor
Unhinged
Mad Cowboy
Alien Autopsy
Fun With Bones
Publisher’s Fearinghouse
Head Cheese Sandwich
Genetic Defect Jennie
Test Tube Tommy
Polka Clots
Capostatic
Fuzzy Bunnies
Compost
the oral surgeon removes his mask
Lupine Hangover Remedies
Hardboiled Eyes
Wire Wisdom
Skin Putty
Nightmare Junkie
Nightmarried
Crypt Catalogue
Disco Inferno
JOURNALISM EXAM IS FINAL!
Sclerotica
Dental Hell
In the Body Forest
Artistic License
Disensemble
The Embolism of Evil
Shank
Cafebacteria
Cheater’s Meat
Gross Eerie Shopping
The Suckling
Teasing the Cyborg
Two Corporate Haikruel
Signs of the New Economy
Cubicle Torture
silence violence
Killing Pinocchio
Bugging Kenny
Tax Terms
Reminder
EXTRA UNPLEASANTNESS (Bonus Poems Included in the First E-book Expanded Edition, 2003)
Bundled Up
Unpacifier
Wrinquilled
Really Really Badminton
Sketching the Mutant Nude
Margaret’s on the Floor
Home Depot of the Dead
Hot Buttered Chum
Alien Art
Here Comes the Sun
Suture Logic
A Frame of Bone
Three Sports Haikruel
Batting Cages
Gutterball
Kittennis
Pecking Zombies
Butterfly Blades
Bayoknuckle
Torturing the Ficus
Blood Polka
Torturous Aorta
EVEN MORE UNPLEASANTRY (Diverse Poems from Gorelets.com, 2004-11)
Ghosted
Fisherman’s Stew
Checking Out
Why Horror Films Suck
Blue Movie
Surround Sound
Bad Costumes
Scream Queens
Demon of Hendrix
Fun with Ganglion
Bleed Together
Pop-o-matic Trouble
Power Rat Trap
Zombie Spurt
Eating Glass
Reindeer Games
Two Brainy Haikruel
Eerie Gyri
Sulky Sulci
Skulls are Too Funny
Flap of the Flay
Evolution of the Senses
lickspittle
Open Caskets
Moldy Heart
The Thing About Tentacles
Girl on Crutches
flagellum
Decapitated Space
Splitting the Brain
incantation of pain #27
Teacheruption
The Christmas Doll
At the Exorcist Film
Artist of The Living Dead
Cobbler
Hellicatessen
A Good Enough Box
Lost in Space
Feature Creatures
Figure With Meat
The Dentist on Halloween
Air Sac O’Lantern
blood, bath and beyond
Curse of the Hempire
The Fall Down the Stairs of the House of Usher
Dead Meat
My Pet Vampire
Head Games
Skin Can Crawl
All Chocolate is Chocula
Tiny Michael Myers
Don’t Stop Bleeding
Creasing His Collar
THE NEST (Micropoems Published on Twitter.com, 2009-11)
Lobes Light
The Nature of My Game
Shower Scene
Calendar is Burning
The early bird gets the worm.
Dastardly Cats
The Final Buzz
Insane Gods
Wee Beasty Chock Troops
Horrorbound in the Hellstorm
I Open the Box of Shadows And it’s my Ruin
A Skinned Pinata
While Brushing
Riding the Coaster
Snapped
Winter Looms Above
His Gray Hand
Virgin Snow
Doorbusters
Thanksgiving Ritual
Though Long Dead
The Morbid Custodian
In the Coffin
A Vortex of Snow
Winter Morning at the Crime Scene
We All Still Hunger
Undead at the Desk
Sick Taxidermist
I Load My Pistol
Birthday Party Hats
Halloween
Behind the Ice Cream Shop
Crack Open the Oyster
In the Carpathian Mountains
Gridlocked
The Players Need
He Eats with Closed Eyes
A Manikin Arm
It Is Possible
Carrie Aged, Returns
The Taxidermist Whispers
He Remembered Reading
Pruning
Deja Food
Goodbye Trace
The Killer Pauses While Painting
The Spitting Black Husk
Roadside Awakening
Cordon Grue
Shy-Ku
I Saw a Child
Weight Watcher
Palms Read
Retreat Backwards
Goth
Zombie Fist Breaks Earth
Assembly Line
Pirouette
Who Knew the Sun
The Clover’s Four Leaves
The Books Begin Their Takeover
Deady-O
She Was Found Dead in the Sewer
Girl Names from the Demon Baby Dictionary
Wrap
As the Auditor Bends Over My Forms
From My Bench I Watched
At the Carnival
He Winced when Yanking Off the Bandage
The Devil at Group Therapy
Cthudude
Clear
Adrift in the Spacecraft
Shalloween
Only When She Saw the Bruises
In My Lab Partner’s Lunch Box
The Scariest Clown
ZOMBIE HAIKU MARATHON
Left Brain and Right Brain
An Undead Gourmet
Milk Means Nothing Now
Bloated Zombie Ticks
No History Here
They Do Not Like Brains
How Do They Know That?
Crazy Cat Lady
Intestinal Tract
The Very Last Brain
The Undead Toddler
The Cripple Undead
Camp Near the Vultures
It’s Zombie Mother
Wait by the Gravestones
Aim for the Head, But…
Deep in the Ocean
Eyes Transfixed on Me
In the Library
It is Not Ironic
Head Soft as Grapefruit
I Deploy Decoys
The Stiffness of Death
Trashcans at the Curb
SCARABLES (Parables, Flash Fiction and Spoken Word (2005-11))
Endless Shrimp
The Bleu Man Group
People Repellent
Fortune Cookie: A Parable
Brian Keene Must Die
Introducing MyBlade
Pink Flamingos
Election Day Alarm: A Parable
You’re Not Getting Sleepy
Sprayers
Silence
A HAIKRUELOGY (Diverse Horror Haiku, 1989-2011)
Squid Hits Propeller
Sucking the Marrow
End of a Millennium
Restaurant Critic
Haunted Hotel
Ashore
Cutting Room Floor
Trees Bend Like Bouncers
Inhuman Body
Hang Ten
Gigantic
Amityvillains
Mondoc
Meter Bleeder
Washed Up
Suicinusitis
English Zombie Breakfast
A Cruel Catheter
It’s a Living
MOS: 666C
Evil Rodeo Clowns
Night Reflecting Night
A Family Drive at the Grand Canyon
Sunk in Dark Waters
Shut Eye
After the Neo-Dark Age
The Rub
BLATHERING LISTS (Selections from The Goreletter)
13 Furnishings You’ll NEVER Find at IKEA
Return of the Son of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Weird Juice
Classic Car Accident Ad Slogans
Why it Sucks to be a Cyclops
Proverbs for Monsters
Halloween Costumes I Wish I Would Have Seen
Ways in Which Moving is Like Death
UNWORTHY UNPLEASANTRY (Unfinished, Unpublished, Dismal and Dead Drafts)
Xmas in Julie
Dietary Restrictions
Tossed Sally
End of the Bloodsong
Ruffles
eyebawl
Breakdown for Breakfast
Lids
Palm Pilot
Last Will
Painstaking
Skinamax
Nosey: A Limerick
Still Bleeding
Venipuncture
Mangiare
BORELETS (Parodic Unpleasantry)
My Office Job
The Insomniac’s Horror
Unpacking the Groceries
Tubular Flat Screen
Catching Z’s
MICHAEL ARNZEN DYING (2003)
A CASEBOOK OF CRITICISM (Literary Critics on the Gorelets Experiment)
Change Thy Shape: The Metamorphoses of Horror
by Lawrence C. Connolly
Meat Shots, Gorelets, Severed Hands and the Uncanny in Your Inbox:
Michael Arnzen’s New Directions in Horror
by David Sandner
Domestic Dissection: Michael Arnzen’s Domestic Horror
by Gina Wisker
Michael Arnzen’s Gorey Experiments
by Rich Ristow
Bloody Red Wheelbarrows
by Rich Ristow
Original Introduction to the First Edition of Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
by Michael A. Arnzen
Bram Stoker Award Acceptance Speech for The Goreletter, 2003
HORROR POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (articles by Michael Arnzen)
The Poetics of Horror
The Element of Fear in Horror Poetry
Horror Haiku
The Dead Draft: When Poetry Fails
New Media Horror: Six Lessons from an E-Poet
INSTIGATION: Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers (2001-2010)
PUBLISHING HISTORY & ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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