Member: arnzen

Me again, Sir!

Just wanted to quickly let you know that I read aloud your story "Spring Ahead, Fall Back" tonight to my gf Julia, and that we both enjoyed it very much! We are now your fans!!

I have revised my LibraryThing review of "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI" as well as signed up for "The Goreletter"! Will be consuming it shortly!

Sincerely,
Aaron DeWeese

posted by endersreads at 3:09 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

Dear Mr. Arnzen,

I am quite embarrassed that a writer such as yourself has even set eyes upon my feeble and fumbling words (especially since I most lazily plagiarized Mr. Osier in my review of his "Sanctuary")!

I do thank you for your comment and I hope that you will not become too fearful (not because of my influence—which is none, but because of my ignorance) upon learning that I plan to add to my review of "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI" a review of your "Spring Ahead, Fall Back".

Now that I am fully awake to your body of work, I cannot wait to pick some of it up and commence reading!

Sincerely,
Aaron DeWeese

posted by endersreads at 3:52 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009

Cool! I just found out I won a copy of CRANIOKLEPTY for participating in the alluring "Whose Skull Would You Steal?" contest here on LibraryThing's 'talk' boards. Check it out by searching 'talk' for it or me. CRANIOKLEPTY looks like a great book. And I stand by what I said about Lon Chaney's skull. -- Mike Arnzen

posted by arnzen at 1:14 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009

Hi Mike,

Thanks for helping me move those extra copies of 'Haunted Media.' With all my royalties I plan on soon investing in a latte upgrade at Starbucks. ;-)

Let me know when "The Popular Uncanny" hits the shelves. Does this count as uncanny?-- just before seeing your email, I finished re-reading "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" for my seminar tomorrow.

best,
jeff

posted by LudicDespair at 10:14 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2009

Hey Mike, thanks for the invite.

I guess I should add that Bitchfight was a blast.

posted by WJohn at 10:12 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009

Hi - Many thanks for the add!

I've already found a couple things in your library I have to look into for my own library and that's just in your "Most Recent Activity"!

BTW, I LOVE "Proverbs for Monsters"!

posted by BeastieMom at 5:10 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

Hi-Thanks Michael for the invite-I will def be checking out some of the books you have authored. My favorite authors are Brian Keene, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little and Jack Ketchum, of course Richard Matheson..the list goes on.

posted by silversurfer at 8:07 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

To Night
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

So thou art come again, old black-winged night,
Like an huge bird, between us and the sun,
Hiding with out-stretched form the genial light;
And still beneath thine icy bosom's dun
And cloudy plumage hatching fog-breathed blight
And embryo storms and crabbéd frosts, that shun
Day's warm caress. The owls from ivied loop
Are shrieking homage, as thou towerest high;
Like sable crow pausing in eager stoop
On the dim world thou gluttest thy clouded eye,
Silently waiting latest time's fell whoop,
When thou shalt quit thine eyrie in the sky,
To pounce upon the world with eager claw,
And tomb time, death, and substance in thy maw.

posted by theoldman at 11:37 am (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

Hi Mike,

I just did my review here on LT of 100 Jolts. I'm not a writer, so don't hurt me.

Thanks so much again,

Dana Jean

posted by DanaJean at 7:08 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2009

Thanks, it's not a problem. I just was a bit confused as to what was going on!

posted by booksandbosox at 1:46 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2009

Hello,
I received a comment from Abby that I had managed to snag a copy of 100 Jolts but it hasn't arrived yet. Just wondering if I received the comment in error or if it should be on its way. Thanks!

Booksandbosox

posted by booksandbosox at 10:34 am (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

Hi! Thanks for the compliment on my library. :) I'm a little confused to have gotten a private notice from Abby that I didn't get a copy of your book and then an hour later got a message from you that I'm getting a signed copy... I'm excited, just a little confused.

Looking forward to reading it! :)

posted by sahra at 12:36 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2009

Hey, thanks for the friend add! So, now that we're BFF's, are you going to come braid my hair or share some make-up tips? No? Well hell, I guess I'll go fix something for lunch then. :-)

posted by DanaJean at 2:42 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Thanks ^_^ I hope you didn't mind me adding you as an interesting library. x

posted by Alfirin at 7:32 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

Hello,

Just a quick note to tell you thanks for the additional giveaway and I'm so thrilled I'm the recipient of it! I sent you an email at the Gorelets site. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to drop me a note.

You are officially now on my Cool Dude List.

Dana Jean

posted by DanaJean at 8:20 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2009

Thanks, Mike! It's been a while -- how've you been?

Best,
Louie

posted by LouisMaistros at 11:31 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2008

Hi Mike,

Checked out your gorelets site (very cool) and read your intro to 100 Jolts &, despite my less than encyclopedic exposure to horror, I completely concur that the short-story format is the beating heart of...or, should I say, unbeating heart (heh heh heh) of horror. You mention Poe's The Cask of Amontillago...and are so correct re. Poe's aims. I mean, what a universally chilling fear Poe tapped into -- being buried, no, Freemasonry'd alive -- and that he wrote it almost a century prior to the term paranoid schizophrenia even being coined, & yet described the perpetrator's diagnosable mental disorder precisely, is further testament to his genius, and to the power of the short horror genre.

I promise to get my hands on a copy of 100 Jolts soon.

Adios mi amigo!

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:32 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

Hiya Michael,

Thanks for the "interesting library" reciprocation! I forget how I found your page, but am glad I did. I'd like to read your work. Which book of yours (besides "all of them") would you recommend I begin with?

Thanks again,

"Lola"

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:08 am (EST) on Jul 9, 2008

I came across your library after googling the phrase "book hoarder blog". You've got a great library!

posted by Audacity at 1:04 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2008

Hey Mike!!!

Thanks for getting me hooked on this thing! It's amazing!!! Your stuff's up already...I'm gonna keep going!!!!

Bill

posted by bookking at 9:20 pm (EST) on May 14, 2008

Hi Mike

Thanks for adding me to your friends list. Cool library.

Durant

posted by gdhaire at 8:25 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

Awesome. Several of the titles were added to the WPF manual, which was fantastic since we romance and chick lit people needed some more recent material to use.

posted by chicklitter at 1:03 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008

Alert: as some of you may know, there's a special LibraryThing offer in the latest issue of The Goreletter at http://www.gorelets.com

You must subscribe (free) to the e-mail edition -- and be a new LT member -- to qualify.

If you take advantage of this, don't forget to alert me.

-- Michael Arnzen

posted by arnzen at 1:13 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2007

You're welcome, Mike. I browsed your shelf. Been meaning to try Cody Goodfellow. Noticed a couple of Ligotti books. He's one of my favorite writers.

posted by bradley_sands at 4:14 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2007

Glad to catch up with you in the "profile comments" after checking out the blog. The humorous mystery stuff...I'd start with Paul Levine's Solomon vs. Lord -- http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=9400564 -- goofy but fun.

posted by adeptmagic at 11:13 am (EST) on Jul 14, 2007

You have a great library too! I'm going to browse it for titles I need.

posted by SidWilliams at 6:36 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2007

Mike,

I read your comment a few days ago when you posted it and again today. I have to say, you so made my day.

--Greg "Undeadicus Raticus"

posted by undeadrat at 10:48 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2007

Thanks, Mike.

This is a pretty cool concept.

~Heidi

posted by heidirubymiller at 6:28 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2007

GREAT library, Mike! I didn't see your comment last month (DUH) so thanks for dropping by. I never realized how many reference books I have in the religion field (most not catalogued yet, but I'll get to 'em eventually. See you soon.

-Nick

posted by NickCato at 4:02 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2007

Hi, Mike:

Thanks for dropping by. Given my day job, it's probably not surprising that I have a lot of anthologies . Some day, I hope to figure out a way to post the tables of contents, but that'll undoubtedly take longer than entering the library itself.

Best wishes,
Larry

posted by LSegriff at 11:51 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2007

Have you read Lance Olsen's "Sewing Shut My Eyes"? There were a few gems, but pretty adolescent overall.

Josh

posted by jharding at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2007

Horror fans: check out my annotated list of "must have horror" anthologies, just posted at the Horror Fiction News Network. Most of the books listed there are in my library here, but there you can get some reviews and critical discussion. -- Mike Arnzen

posted by arnzen at 10:07 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2007

If you're a geek for loving LT, then I must be too! We actually started our catalog with the idea that if something ever happened to our things, we wouldn't even realize what we'd lost or needed to replace. I probably acquire another one every week or so, just from browsing, and of course since my husband and I are both in grad programs there are always required texts - Matt's theology books take up more space than my novels. The down side of having such a great selection is that when you move (like we're doing this week) you have to take them all with you. Luckily, we're just going across the parking lot to a bigger apartment this time - in part to accommodate all the books! But I like seeing who else has my books, or similar ones.

posted by thewhitts at 12:12 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2007

Good to see you here. Don't judge me too harshly on the stuff I have posted - there's a long way to go yet :-)

posted by deadguy at 7:47 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

Hey there - just dropping by to see what you've got and give a friendly wave. See you in June!

Betsy

posted by thewhitts at 2:20 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2007

Thanks - I'm nowhere near done cataloguing my books yet, but horror has been a favorite genre of mine since I was 8 or 9, over 30 years now.

posted by BrigidsBlest at 2:13 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2007

Mike, I just picked up a copy of your Delirium release of Grave Markings. Just read the intro, and I'll be getting to the slippery insides soon...looking forward to it. Cheers!

posted by LeftoverJoe at 1:44 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2007

Thanks for the comment. I'll check out the site you recommended. I would have more small press titles, but since I tend to buy used I don't really tend to come across them as often.

Happy cataloging to you.

posted by coffeezombie at 12:19 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2007

Glad to see you've found a place on LibraryThing! I've been meaning to check out 100 Jolts for a while now, since I've heard a lot of good things about it. I'll have to get that one into my next Shocklines order :)

posted by dr_zirk at 9:35 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2007

I see we're the only ones on here who have Time Famine. Have you read any other works by Olsen?

Josh

posted by jharding at 8:44 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

Hi Mike,
here, on your profile page, shouldn't you have one of those logos writers on LT have? Just curious.
:-))

Paola

posted by aluvalibri at 6:36 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007