Michael Arnzen
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Bio: Michael Arnzen was born in Amityville, NY--hometown of the infamous horror house. *** Winner of the Bram Stoker Award *** After a brief stint in the Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado where he launched his career in publishing in the underground press to much success. By the mid-nineties the Genre Writer's Association awarded him "Best Fiction Writer" and in 1995 he received the coveted Bram Stoker Award--the highest accolade in the horror genre--for his first novel, Grave Markings. Shortly thereafter, he went on to earn a Master's degree while working on his second novel, soon followed by his Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon, where he studied the role of horror in pop culture and wrote a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny.
Arnzen now lives near Pittsburgh with his wife and cats. He is an English professor at Seton Hill University, where he teaches in an innovative Master's degree program in Writing Popular Fiction. His fifth poetry book, Freakcidents, is set to be released in hardcover in December 2002. Visit his content-rich website, gorelets.com, for all the latest news about his writing. Career Highlights:
• Reprints in The Year's Best Horror Stories (DAW Books), 1992 & 1993.
• Best New Writer, Small Press Writers and Artists Organization, 1992.
• Bram Stoker Award for First Novel (Grave Markings), 1994.
• International Horror Critics Guild Award for First Novel (Grave Markings), 1994.
• Best Fiction Writer, Genre Writers Association, 1995.
• Ph.D. in English and American Literature, 1999.
• Bio listed in Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, 2000.
• Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Poetry Collection (Paratabloids), 2001
Major Works:
• Grave Markings, Dell/Abyss Books, 1994 (novel).
• Needles and Sins, Dark Regions Books, 1993 (short story collection).
• Writhing in Darkness (2 vols.), Dark Regions Books, 1998 (poetry collection)
• The Popular Uncanny, UMI Abstracts, 1999 (dissertation).
• Paratabloids, Ozark Triangle Press, 2000 (poetry collection).
• Fluid Mosaic, Wildside Press, 2001 (short story collection).
• Dying (With No Apologies to Martha Stewart), Tachyon Press, 2002 (poetry chapbook).
• Freakcidents: A Surrealist Sideshow, DarkVesper Publishing, 2002 (poetry collection).
• Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems, Fairwood Press, 2003 (poetry collection).
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100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories [MultiFormat]
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 "Horror is the genre of the jolt, the shock, the spark. The horror story's conflict is always a matter of life and death, but death ... almost always comes too soon--that's why we fear it."--Michael A. Arnzen, from the introduction. And now readers have a new reason to be afraid. One hundred new reasons! 2004 Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 39788 - Reading Time: 113-159 min.
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Fluid Mosaic, and other outre objets d'art [MultiFormat]
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Thirteen outre tales of horror from a morbidly brilliant author. Robert Bloch (author of Psycho) called Michael Arnzen's first novel "a White trash Dr. Phibes." 2000
Words: 54407 - Reading Time: 155-217 min.
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Marked [MultiFormat]
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A radical artist is on the run from the censorship agency, leaving her mark behind her through tattoos. But in the process, she literally makes one of her clients a "marked man." 1991
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Counterpoint [MultiFormat]
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Dr. Polk knows how to get his patient, Brent, to overcome his fear of needles. By radical desensitization. It's a simple concept, really. All Brent has to do is lie down on a bed of nails.... 1993
Words: 2860 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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The Lust of Lungs [MultiFormat]
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How far will a chain smoker go to soothe his nicotine fit, when he's trapped in an elevator for three days? Far too far in "The Lust of Lungs." 1993
Words: 3231 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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Copycats [MultiFormat]
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Corky always knew the kid was a wannabe, and it came as no surprise to him that he was being paid to copy another man's tattoo onto his body. But by the time he discovered whose tattoo it really was, it was far too late to change the boy's destiny. 1992
Words: 2526 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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Phrenological Love [MultiFormat]
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What's a girl to do when the boy she loves starts feeling her up ... on her skull? And what's a budding young phrenologist to do when he discovers that her head shape turns out to not be quite what he expected? 1991
Words: 2438 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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Receiver [MultiFormat]
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A game of phone tag turns out horribly wrong in this short-short crime story about a love triangle and one woman's frustrated plans to escape to the Bahamas, told completely through answering machine messages. 1989
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An Eye for an Eye [MultiFormat]
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A one-eyed homeless man holds a tattoo artist at gunpoint, forcing him to create his strangest "cover up" ever. In the process, he becomes an accomplice to murder. [The Year's Best Horror Stories XX Reprint--Karl Edward Wagner] [Recommended Reading--Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Datlow/Windling)] 1991
Words: 2690 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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The Spirit of the Bayonet [MultiFormat]
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Drill Sergeant made him suffer in basic training. But now it's Private Glass' turn to teach drill sergeant a lesson about the spirit of the bayonet. 1993
Words: 2800 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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Paratabloids: Poems Inspired by Headlines From the Weekly World News [MultiFormat]
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A collection of tragicomic poems, inspired by actual headlines from the Weekly World News. Introduction by Ed Bryant. 2002 Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 4505 - Reading Time: 12-18 min.
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Spring Ahead, Fall Back [MultiFormat]
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It's Daylight Savings Time. Everyone has turned their clocks an hour. But not a psychotic named "The Watcher." He wants that hour of his life back. And he's determined to steal it back from the life of an innocent man he's tied up in his hotel room. [The Year's Best Horror Stories XX Reprint--Karl Edward Wagner] [Recommended Reading--Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Datlow/Windling)] 1992
Words: 4803 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems [MultiFormat]
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Gorelets is a collection of "sudden horror poetry": 52 ultra short shockers guaranteed to make you squirm! Originally written on (and for) handheld computers as part of a successful online experiment at Arnzen's gorelets.com, each of these little "caplets of gore" pack a powerful punch. With titles like "Zombeanie Babies," "Teasing the Cyborg," "Brain Chunks," and "The Embolism of Evil" you know you're in for an unpleasant surprise. Released in print on Halloween 2003, this exclusive electronic ... more info>> 2004
Words: 26650 - Reading Time: 76-106 min.
Category: Horror
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