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An analysis of the frame composition during Merrin's Arrival in The Exorcist (about 1:40:42 into the film).   Posted as an example for students doing a similar activity in my "Art of Film" class at Seton Hill University -- http://www.setonhill.edu/

Frame Analysis from The Exorcist

Arnzen leaks news about "The Balloon" -- a new short horror film he wrote -- and features a disturbing excerpt from the musical score by Ayca Akin.

EP2 | The Balloon Score | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 10.15.2024

The Halloween episode of 6m66s features our first "backmasked message" contest (deadline Nov 4th midnight), a graphic novel treat from comedy writer and artist Eric Hoffman, and a new Arnzen "gorelets" poem, "The Puking Pumpkin"! Visit 6m66s.com for comments and subscriptions on your favorite podcast platform.&nbsp;

EP 3 | The Puking Pumpkin | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 10.27.2024

Arnzen's seven minute (and six second) podcast returns for Thanksgiving! Horror abounds this season. This episode features a poem inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and declares the winner of the "backmasked message" contest, along with a few pensive thoughts about political alienation. Visit 6m66s.com for comments and subscriptions on your favorite podcast platform.&nbsp;

EP 4 | I Love Leatherface | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 11.28.2024

Arnzen scrooges a little about holiday traffic before reading his short story, "People Repellent," in the penultimate episode before the new year. Visit 6m66s.com for comments or to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.&nbsp;

EP 5 | People Repellent for the Holidays | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 12.19.2024

Arnzen scrooges a little about holiday traffic before reading his short story, "People Repellent," in the final episode before the new year. Visit 6m66s.com for comments or to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.  

Arnzen demos a funky typewriter, fields a listener question about what it was like writing for zines in the 1990s, and shares a short-short story about a very creepy car wash. MORE QUESTIONS WANTED: Send Arnzen a query via the contact page at 6m66s.com or email arnzen at gmail and he just might answer it in a future episode!&nbsp; [NOTE: This episode was re-released on 2.16.25, due to technical difficulties with the server, which cut short the previous posting. Apologies. -- MA].&nbsp;

EP 6 | The Zine Scene of the 90's | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 2.13.25

While sharing some of Andy's music, Arnzen reflects on his late father's influence and how his "corruption" helped shape him early on as a horror writer.&nbsp; Donations in memory of Andy Arnzen can be made to stroke.org and to hear more of his music, visit &nbsp; &nbsp;  andyarnzen.bandcamp.com

EP 7 | Remembering Andy Arnzen | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 3.1.25

At World Horror Convention 2015, I met a woman who sings opera. So I asked her to perform the psycho shower sequence trill. This is what came out.

Operatic Psycho at World Horror Con 2015

Following up on Arnzen's discussion of the small press of the 1990s, Arnzen shares a starter kit for today's readers looking for risk taking publishers and emerging horror writers worth reading today. [ More questions needed! Send to arnzen @ gorelets.com or through the contact page at&nbsp; ]

EP 8 | A Horror Zine Starter Kit | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 3.20.25

Arnzen wraps up National Poetry Month by sharing a handful of excerpts (and a sick raw draft)&nbsp; from the huge horror poetry collection he's been building over the past decade, called BLUEBIRD GUTS. To read more excerpts, see his daily posts on Instagram throughout April 2025.

EP 9 | A Preview of Bluebird Guts | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 4.30.25

Arnzen reconsiders the meaning of birthdays, and shares an excerpt from his old spoken word cd, Audiovile -- a short zombie tale called "Brain Candy.

EP 10 | Brain Candy Birthdays | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 6.3.25

"Brain Candy" is a zombie story from the book, 100 Jolts (and on the disc, Audiovile), here performed by Michael A. Arnzen with a lot of generous help from the audience at the "Nightmare Before Halloween" literary event, part of DogCon4, hosted by Raw Dog Screaming Press at the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Modern Art on 10.24.15.  

UPDATE 8/16:  This track also appears on the newly released "Expanded Digital Edition" of Audiovile!  Check it out:  http://arnzen.bandcamp.com/

Visit http://rawdogscreaming.com to learn more

Audiovile: The Expanded Digital Edition

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Brain Candy [Live at DogCon4]

Michael Arnzen interviews Sara Tantlinger, about her crime poem, "Love Me like a Murder Scene" for the '30 Days of the 52' blog tour during National Poetry Writing Month 2016.  Full discussion and poem is available on: http://gorelets.com/blog/weblog-exclusive/shared-psychosis-an-interview-with-sara-tantlinger/

Visit http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2015/05/30-days-of-five-two-2016.html or http://gorelets.com/ for more information.

Shared Psychosis: An Interview with Sara Tantlinger #30OfThe52

NEW! One of several bonus tracks now available in AUDIOVILE: The Expanded Digital Edition only at http://arnzen.bandcamp.com/

An early, alternative mix of the "Psycho Hunter" track, mostly created by playful knob-twirling, and trying to bring the subtle elements more directly into the foreground.
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from Audiovile: The Expanded Digital Edition, releases August 1, 2016
Exclusive to the Expanded Digital Edition of Audiovile.

"Psycho Hunter"
(c) Michael A. Arnzen
Original story appears in 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories by Michael A. Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007). rawdogscreaming.com

All instruments and vocals: Michael Arnzen
Visit Arnzen at gorelets.com 

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A sample poem from Freakcidents: A Surrealist Sideshow -- the new audiobook read by Michael Arnzen, available August 2016 from Audible.com, amazon, and iTunes.  http://gorelets.com/books/freakcidents/

This poetry book won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a poetry collection from the Horror Writers Association.  

Freakcidents 

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Needle Baby - an excerpt from Freakcidents: A Surrealist Sideshow

Stephanie Wytovich visited our Fiction Writing class at Seton Hill U on Halloween Day, 2016, to share what the writer's life is really like. Here is a clip from her visit, as she fields questions about her work, her writing process and career as a horror poet/novelist and as an English/Art History (& Writing Popular Fiction) alum from Seton Hill University.

Guest Author Stephanie Wytovich - Fiction Writing Q&A - Halloween 16 #SHUFICT16

Arnzen asked students to give a werewolf howl in response to roll call in his "Monstrosities" course at Seton Hill University, Fall 2017. These are the results.

Werewolf Howls for Roll Call - Monstrosities Class 8.24.17

Michael Arnzen reads a mixture of dark and funny poetry at the inaugural Seton Hill University Fall Faculty Poetry Reading, 11/9/2017. Readers included : Michael Arnzen, Sara Tantlinger, Laura Patterson, David Von Schlichten, and Daniel Casebeer.

Arnzen reading at SHU Fall Faculty Poetry Reading

Michael Arnzen (Ph.D., U Oregon) teaches at Seton Hill University by day and writes horror/suspense fiction by night. His courses in the English program at Seton Hill run the gamut from expository and creative writing to literary criticism and film history, and he is an active teacher in the first year Seminar in Thinking and Writing. He has mentored novelists and led graduate writing workshops in SHU's unique MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction since 1999. He advises the campus literary magazine, Eye Contact, and recently served as Division Chair of Humanities at Seton Hill from 2009-15.  

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