Member: arnzen
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About meHorror author, college professor, oddball.
Books I've written (or in which I appear) are tagged "Arnzen" in my library -- please feel free to openly comment or review. Visit my website at gorelets.com for more and more weirdness!
I teach writing in Seton Hill University's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction Program. Visit http://fiction.setonhill.edu for details.
About my libraryIn progress (aren't they all?). I'm a fan of the library database software at readerware.com, which I recommend to anyone with a huge home library, but I'm not uploading ALL my books to LT. So...for now, what we've got here is a semi-random sampling of my favorites, my recent acquisitions and titles that I find on other people's libraries that I recognize from my own.
GroupsAlternative Fiction, Amazon's Kindle, Blur(b), Bookshelf of the Damned, Brainy Thrillers, Hobnob with Authors, Horror, Horror Writers and Writing, Kindley Book Club, Mac Users at LibraryThing —show all groups, NMC Reading List, Teachers, Teachers who LibraryThing, The Chapel of the Abyss, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night, This Is Halloween..., Weird Fiction, Writer-readers
Favorite authorsClive Barker, Paul Dilsaver, Sigmund Freud, Stephen King, Bentley Little, Lance Olsen, John Skipp, D. Harlan Wilson (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites
Favorite bookstoresBacklist Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Greensburg, Borderlands Books, Dark Delicacies
Favorite librariesReeves Memorial Library - Seton Hill University
Homepagehttp://www.gorelets.com
Also onAmazon, blogspot, delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube
Real nameMichael A. Arnzen
LocationUSA
Emailgorelets
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Account typepublic, lifetime
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http://www.librarything.com/profile/arnzen (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/arnzen (library)
Member sinceFeb 22, 2007
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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
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
posted by arnzen at 1:14 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
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
I guess I should add that Bitchfight was a blast.
posted by WJohn at 10:12 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
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
posted by silversurfer at 8:07 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
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
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
posted by booksandbosox at 1:46 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2009
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
Looking forward to reading it! :)
posted by sahra at 12:36 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2009
posted by DanaJean at 2:42 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009
posted by Alfirin at 7:32 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2009
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
Best,
Louie
posted by LouisMaistros at 11:31 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2008
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
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
posted by Audacity at 1:04 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2008
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
Thanks for adding me to your friends list. Cool library.
Durant
posted by gdhaire at 8:25 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008
posted by chicklitter at 1:03 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008
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
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posted by adeptmagic at 11:13 am (EST) on Jul 14, 2007
posted by SidWilliams at 6:36 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2007
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
This is a pretty cool concept.
~Heidi
posted by heidirubymiller at 6:28 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2007
-Nick
posted by NickCato at 4:02 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2007
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
Josh
posted by jharding at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2007
posted by arnzen at 10:07 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2007
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posted by deadguy at 7:47 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007
Betsy
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posted by LeftoverJoe at 1:44 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2007
Happy cataloging to you.
posted by coffeezombie at 12:19 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2007
posted by dr_zirk at 9:35 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2007
Josh
posted by jharding at 8:44 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007
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