Michael A. Arnzen
Source: "Michael A. Arnzen Bibliography." Author Wars, https://authorwars.com/authors/michael-a-arnzen.html".
Pseudonyms:
Titles:
Anthologies
Chapter Books
Collections
- Unknown. 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories
- Unknown. Fluid Mosaic and Other Outre Objects D'Art
- Unknown. Freakcidents: A Surrealistic Sideshow
- Unknown. Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems
- Unknown. Proverbs for Monsters
- Unknown. The Selected Works of Michael Arnzen: Needles and Sins
- Unknown. Writhing in Darkness: Part I
- Unknown. Writhing in Darkness: Part II
- 2000. Paratabloids
- 2007. Audiovile
- 2009. Skull Fragments
- 2012. The Gorelets Omnibus
Cover Art
Essays
- Unknown. "Behold the Funhole": Post-Structuralist Theory and Kathe Koja's The Cipher
- Unknown. Childhood and Literacy in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- Unknown. Dealer's Choice
- Unknown. Familial Ideology in The Exorcist
- Unknown. Horror and the Responsibilities of the Liberal Educator
- Unknown. Horror Haiku
- Unknown. Introduction (Disposal)
- Unknown. Introduction (Poking the Gun: The Selected Poetry of John Grey)
- Unknown. Introduction (Stigma: Afterworld)
- Unknown. Introduction: Choking to Death: Musings on Kurt Newton's Dark Demons
- Unknown. Introduction: Listen Up
- Unknown. Introduction: Minimalist Horror
- Unknown. Liner Notes (Fluid Mosaic: And Other Outre Objects D'Art )
- Unknown. Perfect Pitch
- Unknown. R.E.F. Donations (Star*Line, July-August 1993)
- Unknown. R.E.F. Donations (Star*Line, September-October 1993)
- Unknown. Scary New Media
- Unknown. The Pro Shop: Reading Texts, or, My Bookstore Is Talking To Me
- Unknown. There Is Only One: The Restoration of the Repressed in The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen
- Unknown. Treasurer's Report (Star*Line, January-February 1994)
- Unknown. Treasurer's Report (Star*Line, July-August 1993)
- Unknown. Treasury Report
- Unknown. Uncovering the Poetic Inscriptions of David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- 2009. Scene and Structure in Horror
- 2012. Introduction to the Monstrance
- 2013. Top Five Reasons I Admire the Hell Out of Tim Waggoner
- 2013. The Muse Beneath the Madhouse: An Introduction to Hysteria
- 2017. Author's Story Note (55 Ways I'd Prefer Not to Die)
- 2017. Hungry: A Commentary
- 2017. In These Final Days of Sales: A Commentary
- 2017. Rat Catcher: A Commentary
- 2017. The Giveaway: A Commentary
- 2017. The Last Moments Before Bed: A Commentary
- 2017. Whatever You Want: A Commentary
- 2017. Why Steve Rasnic Tem Matters
- 2018. Born and Bread: A Commentary
- 2018. Crisis Apparition: A Commentary
- 2018. Death's Door Café: A Commentary
- 2018. Guarding the Mound: A Commentary
- 2018. Sins of the Ancestors: A Commentary
- 2018. The Wrong Seat: A Commentary
- 2018. Why Kaaron Warren Matters
- 2018. At the Huts of Ajala: A Commentary
- 2018. Conversion Therapy: A Commentary
- 2018. Just Between Us: A Commentary
- 2018. Otherwise: A Commentary
- 2018. Street Worm: A Commentary
- 2018. The Beads of Ku: A Commentary
- 2018. Why Nisi Shawl Matters
- 2019. A Natural History of Autumn: A Commentary
- 2019. A Night in the Tropics: A Commentary
- 2019. Boatman's Holiday: A Commentary
- 2019. Incorruptible: A Commentary
- 2019. Malthusian's Zombie: A Commentary
- 2019. The Night Whiskey: A Commentary
- 2019. Why Jeffrey Ford Matters
- 2020. Top Five Reasons I Admire the Hell Out of Tim Waggoner
- 2020. Earth Is Flat: A Commentary
- 2020. Fear of Seeing: A Commentary
- 2020. My Country Does Not Dream: A Commentary
- 2020. The Wheel of Samsara: A Commentary
- 2020. Transformation Subway: A Commentary
- 2020. Two Small Birds: A Commentary
- 2020. Why Han Song Matters
- 2021. One Copy Only: A Commentary
- 2021. Recently Used: A Commentary
- 2021. The Alternative: A Commentary
- 2021. The Bill: A Commentary
- 2021. The Companion: A Commentary
- 2021. The Place of Revelation: A Commentary
- 2021. Why Ramsey Campbell Matters
- 2022. Like Fright on Lice: Humor and Horror Poetry
- 2024. Preface (Extrasensory Overload: An Anthology of Speculative Excess)
Interior Art
Interviews
- Unknown. An Interview: Ree Young
- Unknown. Brian Herbert: Maud' Dib and SF Poetry
- Unknown. Interview #7: Michael A. Arnzen
- Unknown. Michael A. Arnzen
- Unknown. Michael A. Arnzen: Psychopaths & Other Dark Brews
- Unknown. On Teaching Horror
- Unknown. On Writing Flash Fiction
- Unknown. The Horror Author: Part 1
Magazine Editor
Novels
Poems
- Unknown. "Adrift in the spacecraft"
- Unknown. A Personal Computer
- Unknown. After the Neo-Dark Age
- Unknown. After Words
- Unknown. Amityvillians
- Unknown. Awake
- Unknown. Blood from the Weather Vein
- Unknown. Bone Cancer
- Unknown. Born Every Minute
- Unknown. Brain Chunks
- Unknown. Brazilian Night
- Unknown. Breakdown for Breakfast
- Unknown. Censorship
- Unknown. Changing Channelers
- Unknown. Chew Again
- Unknown. Claw Head
- Unknown. Commute
- Unknown. Darkroom Cuts
- Unknown. Death of Horror Poetry - or Kill the Peckers
- Unknown. Deck Stain
- Unknown. Double Burial
- Unknown. Dried Red Leech Found in a Dusty Book
- Unknown. Early to Bed, Early to Rise
- Unknown. Eclipse of Reason
- Unknown. End of a Millennium
- Unknown. Environmental
- Unknown. Everyone's Too Busy
- Unknown. Exhaling You
- Unknown. Exogenesis
- Unknown. eyebawl
- Unknown. Feelers
- Unknown. Finding Her Stitches
- Unknown. Freakshow Breakup
- Unknown. Freaky Deak's Splatfall
- Unknown. Frothing
- Unknown. Genetic Defect Jennie
- Unknown. Glarewolves
- Unknown. Green
- Unknown. Harvest Soliloquy Silent
- Unknown. Heartfelt
- Unknown. In Daddy's Workshop
- Unknown. In the Box
- Unknown. Jesus Wept, But
- Unknown. Jurors' Notes (Poetry Showcase Volume V)
- Unknown. Katzen Clavier
- Unknown. Kids Watch in Horror As Clown Chokes to Death on Balloon
- Unknown. Learning to Write
- Unknown. Life Isn't as Short as They Say
- Unknown. Lunge
- Unknown. Mad Head
- Unknown. Marnie Checks in
- Unknown. Memorabilia
- Unknown. Morning: Cyrogenic Sleep Chamber
- Unknown. Murder Sauna
- Unknown. muscle boy
- Unknown. Mutant Marcus
- Unknown. Natural Newborn Killer
- Unknown. Needle Baby
- Unknown. night veins
- Unknown. Not the Reaper
- Unknown. Our Last Halloween Party
- Unknown. Piano Lessons
- Unknown. Pick Up
- Unknown. Polka Clots
- Unknown. Proverbs for Monsters
- Unknown. Recording Our Skullsong
- Unknown. Rest Note
- Unknown. Resuscitation
- Unknown. Rigormarole
- Unknown. rockface
- Unknown. Scream 6
- Unknown. Siamese Blood Brothers
- Unknown. six short films about chauncy the serial killer
- Unknown. Slayer's Ballet
- Unknown. Smoker
- Unknown. So Say the Dead
- Unknown. Soft Spot Sally
- Unknown. Spell Singer
- Unknown. Spiderboy
- Unknown. Stand Up Comic
- Unknown. Stripper
- Unknown. Suicidiot
- Unknown. Switched at Birth
- Unknown. Teasing the Cyborg
- Unknown. Terms They Never Illustrate in Dictionaries
- Unknown. Test Tube Tommy
- Unknown. The Astronaut's Camping Trip
- Unknown. The Attack of the Bleu Man Group
- Unknown. The Bite
- Unknown. The Chandelier
- Unknown. The Church at the Bottom of the Sea
- Unknown. The Cold Man
- Unknown. The Conjoined Triplets
- Unknown. The Creep with No Head
- Unknown. The Divorcée at the Airport
- Unknown. The Embolism of Evil
- Unknown. The End of the Fly
- Unknown. The Hairy Baby
- Unknown. The Hanging
- Unknown. The Incredible Edible Fred
- Unknown. The Night the Nativity Set Came Alive
- Unknown. The One Whose Eyes Would Not Close
- Unknown. The Past in Realtime
- Unknown. The Past in Realtime
- Unknown. The Poem Wall
- Unknown. The Rub
- Unknown. The Scab
- Unknown. This Bonfire
- Unknown. Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover That Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet
- Unknown. tortuous aorta
- Unknown. Triple Face
- Unknown. Umbilicile
- Unknown. Uncleanex
- Unknown. Unhinged
- Unknown. Upon Finding Her Body Frozen in Snow
- Unknown. Upon Suicidal Tendencies Among Sword-Swallowing Shellfish-Eating Circus Freaks
- Unknown. Varicose
- Unknown. Venting Frustrations
- Unknown. Wasp Sting Makes Barber Slash Man's Throat
- Unknown. Watching You Dance Between Punchlines
- Unknown. Werecat Wally
- Unknown. Wet Tissue
- Unknown. Why She Leaps
- Unknown. Why Zombies Lumber
- Unknown. Wine
- Unknown. Woman Gives Birth to Full Grown Man
- Unknown. Zombeanie Babies
- Unknown. Zombie Haiku
- 2000. Ant Juice Cures Arthritis
- 2000. Bad News on Television Can Kill You
- 2000. Boy's Heart Is on the Outside of His Body
- 2000. Chicago Mom Gives Birth to 7-LB Eyeball
- 2000. Cops Find Robber's Fingerprint—with Finger Attached!
- 2000. Cops Mistake Cremation Urn for a Bomb
- 2000. Eskimo Seal Hunter Beats Top Russian Chess Champ!
- 2000. Exorcism Held on Busy Road
- 2000. Girl Abandoned at Birth Raised by Rattlesnakes
- 2000. I Died and Watched My Own Surgery
- 2000. Man Bites Off Girlfriend's Lip
- 2000. Motorist Finds Human Arm Dangling from His Truck
- 2000. Pop Goes Plop and Crushes Tot
- 2000. Storm Dumps Weird Blobs in Pond
- 2000. Victims Tortured for Their ATM Card Numbers
- 2000. Widow Smokes Hubby's Corpse Like Ham
- 2000. Woman Marries a Shark
- 2000. Woman, 36, Raped by Teen She Saved from Drowning
- 2000. World's Cruelest Psychic's Bizarre Predictions
- 2000. Your Neighbor May Be a Space Alien!
- 2005. How the Zombie Holocaust ...
- 2016. The Trappings of Poetry
- 2019. He Carves Wood
- 2020. Curtains
- 2021. The Umami of Blood
- 2024. Biology Lesson
Reviews
- Unknown. 100 Jolts
- Unknown. Cybertexts
- Unknown. Devil in the River and Other Poems
- Unknown. Fluid Mosaic
- Unknown. Fluid Mosaic and Other Outre Objects D'Art
- Unknown. Freakcidents
- Unknown. Freakcidents: A Surrealist Sideshow
- Unknown. Grave Markings
- Unknown. Grave Markings
- Unknown. Grave Markings
- Unknown. Grave Markings
- Unknown. Psychos
- Unknown. Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse
- Unknown. Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse
- Unknown. Sorceries and Sorrows: Early Poems
- Unknown. The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems, 2001-2011
- Unknown. The Scars Are Complimentary
- Unknown. Underfoot
- Unknown. Werewoman
- 2002. Handy Office Guide to Corporate Monsters
- 2003. Freakcidents
- 2009. Skull Fragments
Short Fiction
- Unknown. 55 Ways I'd Prefer Not to Die
- Unknown. A Change in Policy
- Unknown. A Donation
- Unknown. A Lust for Lungs
- Unknown. A Straight Flush with a Dead Kicker: an excerpt from Play Dead
- Unknown. A Worse Mousetrap
- Unknown. Amputating the Phantom
- Unknown. An Evil Eye
- Unknown. An Eye for an Eye
- Unknown. An Ounce of Brains
- Unknown. Anniversary Meal
- Unknown. Baby Teeth
- Unknown. Beyond Undead
- Unknown. Blind Spot
- Unknown. Bookworm
- Unknown. Brain Candy
- Unknown. Burning Bridges
- Unknown. Canines
- Unknown. Chanting Richard
- Unknown. Cheese
- Unknown. Choppers
- Unknown. Contused
- Unknown. Convictions
- Unknown. Copycats
- Unknown. Counterpoint
- Unknown. Crusty Old Age
- Unknown. Degrees of Separation
- Unknown. Diagara
- Unknown. Disgruntled
- Unknown. Diving In
- Unknown. Doctor Thomas's Brainstorm
- Unknown. Domestic Fowl
- Unknown. Doofus
- Unknown. Dreamachinery
- Unknown. Dying
- Unknown. Exorcystland
- Unknown. Face of Clay
- Unknown. Falling Back
- Unknown. Fissures
- Unknown. Fluid Mosaic
- Unknown. Flunking the Assassin
- Unknown. Gardener
- Unknown. Gasp
- Unknown. Gastroanatomy
- Unknown. Hand in Marriage
- Unknown. Handicapped Spot
- Unknown. Help Yourself
- Unknown. Her Daily Bread
- Unknown. How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant
- Unknown. How to Put a Cat to Sleep
- Unknown. Imaginary Trivia
- Unknown. Immaterial Girl
- Unknown. In Fur
- Unknown. In the Balance
- Unknown. In the Middle
- Unknown. Inside the Man with No Eyelids
- Unknown. Involunteer
- Unknown. Jack the Teacher
- Unknown. Knock Off the Auction Block
- Unknown. La primavera a la cabeza, el otoño a la espalda
- Unknown. Last Drink Bird Head
- Unknown. Latex
- Unknown. Limber
- Unknown. Little Devils
- Unknown. Little Stocking Stuffers
- Unknown. Marked
- Unknown. Mortichinery
- Unknown. Mother's Haunted Housecoat
- Unknown. Mr. Mouth
- Unknown. Mr. Pipecleaners
- Unknown. Mustachio Moon
- Unknown. My Wound Still Weeps
- Unknown. Next-Door
- Unknown. Nightmare Job #1
- Unknown. Nightmare Job #2
- Unknown. Nightmare Job #3
- Unknown. Nightmare Job #4
- Unknown. Nightmare Job #5
- Unknown. Nirvana by Noon
- Unknown. Obictionary
- Unknown. On the Filthy Floor
- Unknown. Partners
- Unknown. People Repellent
- Unknown. Phrenological Love
- Unknown. Pillars of Light
- Unknown. Pop-Up Killer
- Unknown. Psycho Hunter
- Unknown. Punishment
- Unknown. Receiver
- Unknown. Research Subjects
- Unknown. Resonant Eyes
- Unknown. Return of the Living Dead
- Unknown. Returns
- Unknown. Revenge of the Mummy
- Unknown. Screwge
- Unknown. Second Helping
- Unknown. Sight to the Blind
- Unknown. Sinking Sandy
- Unknown. Skull Fragments
- Unknown. Skull Scraper
- Unknown. Skullduggery
- Unknown. Soft Spots
- Unknown. Spring Ahead, Fall Back
- Unknown. Stabbing for Dummies
- Unknown. Stigmata
- Unknown. Stomachine
- Unknown. Strange Trout
- Unknown. Stress Toy
- Unknown. Stretch
- Unknown. Surge
- Unknown. Surgical Complications
- Unknown. Take Out
- Unknown. Taking Care of Baby
- Unknown. Tapping Charlie
- Unknown. Tassels
- Unknown. The Bitter Wife
- Unknown. The Blood Ran Out
- Unknown. The Boblin
- Unknown. The Cow Café
- Unknown. The Cow Cafe
- Unknown. The Curse of Fat Face
- Unknown. The Cut of My Jib
- Unknown. The Dead Head
- Unknown. The Dead Lantern
- Unknown. The Dead Lantern
- Unknown. The Eight Ball in Big Mouth's Pocket
- Unknown. The Killer Descends
- Unknown. The Leaf Pile
- Unknown. The Man in the Moon
- Unknown. The Piano Player Has No Fingers
- Unknown. The Seven-Headed Beast
- Unknown. The Shadow Over Lynchburg, or The Case of Dr. Harry Felwealth
- Unknown. The Spirit of the Bayonet
- Unknown. The Strangest Skull
- Unknown. The Ugly Thing
- Unknown. Throb
- Unknown. Trimachine
- Unknown. Tugging the Heartstrings
- Unknown. Turn of the Season
- Unknown. Up for Air
- Unknown. Valendine
- Unknown. Voodoo Movie Trilogy
- Unknown. While Knitting Your Hat
- Unknown. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Unknown. White Out
- Unknown. Who Wants to Be a Killionaire?
- Unknown. Womachine
- Unknown. Writhe
- Unknown. You're Not Getting Sleepy
- 2004. Screwy Louis
- 2006. Blasphemebus
- 2007. Driving the Sick Elephant
- 2008. Guarded
- 2009. She Screech Like Me
- 2009. Skull Fragments
- 2010. The Hungry Heart
- 2010. Endless Shrimp
- 2012. Graphic Violence Equalizer
- 2016. All Naughty, No Nice
- 2017. Fresh Catch
- 2018. Baby Steps
- 2018. Checkmate Roommate
- 2018. Running from Him
- 2018. Catching Santa
- 2018. A Check-Up for Mr. Bangles
- 2019. Smolder
- 2019. Snow Angel
- 2019. The Gurgle
Awards
- 0000. Grave Markings - International Horror Guild Award, Best First Novel (Win)
- 0000. Grave Markings - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Win)
- 0000. The Goreletter - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Alternative Forms (Win)
- 0000. Proverbs For Monsters - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Win)
- 0000. Freakcidents - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection (Win)
- 0000. 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Paratabloids - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. The Gorelets Omnibus - Elgin Award, Book (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Gorelets Omnibus - Elgin Award, Book (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Goreletter (Email Newsletter) - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Alternative Forms (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover That Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet - Rhysling Award, Short Poem (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Umbilicile - Rhysling Award, Short Poem (Nomination below cutoff)
Genres/Themes:
- horror (6 books)
- horror poetry (2 books)
- Essays on Han Song (1 book)