100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

Now readers have a new reason to be afraid. One hundred new reasons! Bram Stoker Finalist for Best Collection of 2004.

Literature & Fiction

Arnzen, Michael A.

United States

Raw Dog Screaming Press

Cutting Block Books proudly presents the best of the Horror Library, Volumes 1-5. This collection honors a full ten years of excellence in short horror fiction. Selected and curated by the original team behind the three-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library series, these thirty-three short stories should delight horror fans of all stripes.
Nearly 150 superb short stories have appeared in the Horror Library—and the ones in this book are truly among the best and most distinctive. So come on in, browse around. The Library will be open all night...
From the Publisher's Introduction:"In these pages you’ll find starving people and hungry ghosts; silent invasions and mysterious travelers; burning lovers and patriotic cannibals. It’s a book where gas stations aren’t what they seem, and neither are door-to-door salespeople. It’s a book where the end of the world doesn’t have to be, well, the end of the world."

The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5

Little, Bentley

Guignard, Eric J.

Ethridge, Benjamin Kane

Dixon, Lorne

ANDERSON, COLLEEN

Colyott, Charles

McBride, Tracie

Calvillo, Michael Louis

Despins, Kim

Genre Fiction

Cutting Block Books

Christmas is often thought of as a time of joy and cheer, a time for giving to others, a time of celebration and love…. Well, this year some of the best voices in horror fiction decided to band together and tell you some tales about a different kind of Christmas, so grab yourself a mug of hot chocolate, close the curtains, lock the door and get comfy. This will be a Christmas like never before! Table of Contents: 12 Days (Psychopath Remix) by J.C. Michael (poem) Thy Will be Done by J.C. Michael Tommy’s Christmas by John R. Little Naughty or Nice by Veronica Smith Santa's Midnight Feast by J.L. Lane Hung With Care by Ty Schwamberger Santa Came by Peter Oliver Wonder In the Bag by Tim Curran The Christmas Spirit by Lisa Morton The Tome of Bill Cristmas Carol by Rick Gualtieri Killing Christmas by Andrew Lennon All Naughty, No Nice by Michael A. Arnzen A Disappointed Shade of Blue by C.S. Andserson (poem) Stuffed Pig by Steven Murray The Night Before Christmas by Suzanne Fox Better Watch Out by Willow Rose Deck The Halls by Xtina Marie (poem) Christmas Market by Amy Cross Merry Fuckin' Christmas by Kevin J. Kennedy The Veil by Rose Garnett The Last Christmas Dinner by Christina Bergling The Present by Israel Finn Christmas Carole by Lisa Vasquez Slay Bells by Weston Kincade Edited by Brandy Yassa Cover design by Lisa Vasquez

Collected Christmas Horror Shorts (Collected Horror Shorts)

Gualtieri, Rick

ROSE, WILLOW

Cross, Amy

Garnett, Rose

Marie, Xtina

Murray, Steven

Kennedy, Kevin J.

Lane, J. L.

Little, John, R.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Collected Christmas Horror Shorts 2 (Collected Horror Shorts)

Lennon, Andrew

Morton, Lisa.

Bergling, Christina

Michael, J.C.

Brockmeyer, Matthew

Motz, Christopher

Independently published

Proverbs For Monsters

You Can Catch A Good Human With A Bad Hamburger Proverbs For Monsters is an omnibus of the best writing to date by one of the most offbeat and humorous writers working in the horror genre today, Michael A. Arnzen. Hand picked by the author, these are the stories, "flash fictions," and poems most cherished by readers, most enjoyed at live performances, most celebrated by editiors of year's best collections, and most recommended for literary awards from across his career. An Infant Vampire Bites Hardest In Proverbs For Monsters you'll get advice for growing your own man-eating plant. You'll ride the movies of Exorcystland -- the scariest amusement park ever created. You'll attend a bizarre grade school for assassins. You'll meet a dentist with a very disturbing collection of baby teeth. You'll encounter strange children -- from the boy who carries his heart in a metal case attached to his chest to the girl who is completely encased in the carapace of her own giant scab. You'll ride a diseased elephant and witness the death of the last vampire and learn more than ever wanted to know about a perpetual embalming machine. You'll wince and laugh and wince again. Fortune Favors the Cleaver Whether or not you have read Michael Arnzen before or are already a fan of his gleefully twisted imagination, you're in for a very dark treat with this generous collection of thirty stories and thirty poems, many of them impossible-to-find or never seen before. Proverbs For Monsters offers the most delightful and disturbing retrospective of this acclaimed author's career.

Proverbs for Monsters

Dark Regions Press

100 Jolts features one hundred short shots of fiction guaranteed to stun. Arnzen has honed his craft to deliver the highest voltage using the fewest words. Released as a paperback in 2004 this ground-breaking collection is considered by many to be a pioneering work in the flash fiction movement. It broke publishing barriers to micro-fiction, inspired many authors, has been adapted to film and audio, and was also a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. This expanded edition contains, Aftershocks, a battery of newly added stories, as well as bonus writing prompts, and a brand new Afterword.

Contemporary

The Gorelets Omnibus

Poetry

The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen's poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of the original Gorelets chapbook and his classic "refrigerator of the damned" online magnetic poetry experiment, to Arnzen's latest flash fiction and brand new Zombie Haikruel series, this collection chronicles his revolutionary vision for the horror short form. He even received a Bram Stoker Award for Alternative Forms for some of the work included in this book. As one of the first writers to recognize the creative capacity of handheld devices, Arnzen's pioneering work to deliver gory entertainment in as few characters as possible is still eminently relevant today. Thus, a "casebook of criticism"-a collection of scholarly analyses of Arnzen's unique approach to the genre-is included alongside the poetry.

Johnny had been to the top. Young and slick, he knew how to play the high roller, dress the part, and make his opponents sweat. He'd ridden into Vegas on a winning streak a mile wide. But Vegas took everything, even his lucky gold tooth. You'd think he couldn't fall any lower than a homeless shelter full of the downtrodden. And he couldn't possibly have anything left to lose. But you'd be wrong. Johnny soon discovers there's a game going on at the shelter. A game where before you play the cards you have to make them. A game where the payout is survival and folding means death. A game where the question becomes: are you playing the cards or are they playing you? Using 52 chapters Arnzen's novel-of-cards is stacked with mischief and thrills. Like the most accomplished blackjack dealer Arnzen will keep you guessing at his hand. Are you ready to play?

Play Dead

Since 2006, the +Horror Library+ series of anthologies has been internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories -- relevant to the moment and stunning in impact -- from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative. Filled with Fears and Fantasy! Death and Dark Dreams! Monsters and Mayhem! Literary Vision and Wonder! Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in. Containing 29 all-original stories, read Volume 3 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the other volumes. Included within Volume 3 are: * In "Extra Innings," a baseball game with stakes greater than anticipated seems never to end. * In "Fish Bait," two hikers stumble into a small town's strange bar, where they're lured into playing a game with gruesome consequences. * In "The Station," a married couple discover an abandoned gas station where corpses tell the future. * . . . and more!

Horror Library, Volume 3

Bunn, Cullen

Everson, John

Burke, Kealan Patrick

Palisano, John

Braunbeck, Gary A.

Strand, Jeff.

Cavender, R.J.

Dark Moon Books

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