Michael A. Arnzen (born May 17, 1967) is an American horror writer. He has won the Bram Stoker Award three times.

Early life and education

Arnzen was born on May 17, 1967, in Amityville, New York. After a brief stint in the United States Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado, where he began his writing career.

Arnzen received the Bram Stoker Award in 1994 for Grave Markings.

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

  • Grave Markings (Dell Books, 2004) Winner, Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel
  • Play Dead (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2005)
  • Bitchfight (Bad Moon Books, 2008)
  • Grave Markings: The 20th Anniversary Edition (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014)

Short story and flash fiction collections

  • Needles and Sins (Dark Regions Press, 1993)
  • Fluid Mosaic and Other Outre Objects D'Art (Wildside Press, 2001)
  • 100 Jolts (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2004)
  • Proverbs For Monsters (Dark Regions Press, 2007) Winner, Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Poetry collections

  • Chew and other ruminations (Mastication Publications, 1991)
  • Writhing in Darkness (Dark Regions Press, 1997)
  • Paratabloids (Ozark Triangle Press, 2000)
  • Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems (Fairwood Press, 2003)
  • Dying (With No Apologies to Martha Stewart) (Tachyon Publications, 2003)
  • Sportuary (Mastication Publications, 2003)
  • Freakcidents: A Surrealistic Sideshow (2005) Winner, Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Non-fiction

  • Many Genres, One Craft (Co-Edited by Michael A. Arnzen and Heidi Ruby Miller) (Headline Books, 2011)
  • Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side (Mastication Publications, 2013)
  • Screamin' in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle's 'The Tingler (What Sleeps Beneath, 2024)

See also

  • List of horror fiction authors

References

  • Michael Arnzen's official site
  • 100 Jolts
  • Raw Dog Screaming Press
  • Pedablogue