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- Birthplace: Amityville, New York, USA
- Birthdate: 17 May 1967
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arnzen
- Webpage: http://www.gorelets.com/
- Used These Alternate Names: Michael Arnzen , Mike Arnzen
- Interviews: On Writing Flash Fiction , Michael A. Arnzen: Psychopaths & Other Dark Brews
- ISFDB Record Number: 2902
- Biography: Bio:Michael A. Arnzen
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Michael A. Arnzen
- Author Tags: to read 1994 (1) , bram stoker award for best first novel winner (1) , bram stoker award for superior achievement in a first novel finalist (1)
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- Grave Markings (1994)
- Play Dead (2005)
- Writhing in Darkness: Part I (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Writhing in Darkness: Part II (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Paratabloids (2000)
- Fluid Mosaic: And Other Outre Objects D'Art (2001)
- Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems (2003)
- 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories (2004)
- Freakcidents (2005)
- Proverbs For Monsters (2007)
- The Gorelets Omnibus (2012)
- Dying (2003) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Freakcidents (2005)
- A Donation (1989)
- Convictions (1990)
- Baby Teeth (1990)
- Receiver (1990)
- An Eye for an Eye (1991)
- Doctor Thomas's Brainstorm (1991)
- Next-Door (1991)
- Phrenological Love (1992)
- Spring Ahead, Fall Back (1992)
- Sight to the Blind (1992)
- The Man in the Moon (1993)
- A Change in Policy (1993)
- Inside the Man with No Eyelids (1993)
- Writhe (1993) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- In Fur (1994)
- A Straight Flush with a Dead Kicker: an excerpt from Play Dead (1994)
- The Blood Ran Out (1995)
- Cheese (1995)
- Sinking Sandy (1995)
- Falling Back (1995) [also as by Michael A. Arnzen ]
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1995)
- Screwge (1996)
- The Piano Player Has No Fingers (1997)
- Stigmata (1997) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Immaterial Girl (1998) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- My Wound Still Weeps (1998)
- Fluid Mosaic (2000)
- Mr. Pipecleaners (2001)
- Flunking the Assassin (2002)
- Stretch (2002)
- Tugging the Heartstrings (2002)
- Latex (2002)
- Burning Bridges (2002)
- Punishment (2002)
- Take Out (2002)
- Who Wants to Be a Killionaire? (2002)
- A Worse Mousetrap (2002)
- Taking Care of Baby (2002)
- Mortichinery (2002)
- In the Middle (2002)
- Face of Clay (2002)
- Crusty Old Age (2002)
- The Curse of Fat Face (2002)
- Revenge of the Mummy (2002)
- Canines (2002)
- Gasp (2002)
- Beyond Undead (2002)
- Little Stocking Stuffers (2002)
- Choppers (2002)
- On the Filthy Floor (2003)
- Mustachio Moon (2003)
- Mother's Haunted Housecoat (2003)
- Second Helping (2003)
- White Out (2003)
- Surgical Complications (2003)
- The Seven-Headed Beast (2003)
- Obictionary (2003)
- Stomachine (2003)
- Valendine (2003)
- Disgruntled (2003)
- Contused (2003)
- Limber (2003)
- Dying (2003) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Knock Off the Auction Block (2003)
- Jack the Teacher (2003)
- Her Daily Bread (2003)
- How to Grow a Man-Eating Plant (2003)
- How to Put a Cat to Sleep (2003)
- Diving In (2003)
- Gardener (2003)
- Skull Scraper (2003)
- Gastroanatomy (2003)
- Soft Spots (2003)
- Tapping Charlie (2003)
- The Ugly Thing (2003)
- The Bitter Wife (2003)
- The Strangest Skull (2003)
- Resonant Eyes (2003)
- Fissures (2003)
- Doofus (2003)
- Up for Air (2003)
- Strange Trout (2003)
- Trimachine (2003)
- The Boblin (2003)
- The Cow Café (2004)
- Research Subjects (2004)
- Brain Candy (2004)
- Stabbing for Dummies (2004) with Vincent Sakowski [only as by Michael A. Arnzen and Vincent W. Sakowski ]
- Domestic Fowl (2004)
- Stress Toy (2004)
- Degrees of Separation (2004)
- Nightmare Job #1 (2004)
- Turn of the Season (2004)
- Pop-Up Killer (2004)
- The Cow Cafe (2004)
- Handicapped Spot (2004)
- Partners (2004)
- Return of the Living Dead (2004)
- The Dead Head (2004)
- Returns (2004)
- Tassels (2004)
- In the Balance (2004)
- Diagara (2004)
- Nightmare Job #2 (2004)
- Psycho Hunter (2004)
- Little Devils (2004)
- Dreamachinery (2004)
- Womachine (2004)
- Blind Spot (2004)
- Amputating the Phantom (2004)
- Nightmare Job #3 (2004)
- While Knitting Your Hat (2004)
- Anniversary Meal (2004)
- Skullduggery (2004)
- Chanting Richard (2004)
- The Eight Ball in Big Mouth's Pocket (2004)
- Nightmare Job #4 (2004)
- An Evil Eye (2004)
- Hand in Marriage (2004)
- The Cut of My Jib (2004)
- The Leaf Pile (2004)
- Surge (2004)
- Nightmare Job #5 (2004)
- The Killer Descends (2004)
- The Dead Lantern (2006) with Edgar Allan Poe [also as by Michael A. Arnzen ]
- Help Yourself (2006) with Mark McLaughlin
- Blasphemebus (2006)
- Mr. Mouth (2007)
- Exorcystland (2007)
- People Repellent (2007)
- Counterpoint (2007)
- You're Not Getting Sleepy (2007)
- Imaginary Trivia · (2007)
- Throb (2007) with Mark McLaughlin
- Voodoo Movie Trilogy (2007)
- Screwy Louis (2007)
- Involunteer (2007)
- Guarded (2008)
- She Screech Like Me (2009)
- Last Drink Bird Head (2009) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Hungry Heart (2010)
- Endless Shrimp (2010)
- End of a Millennium (1990)
- Double Burial (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Rest Note (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Life Isn't as Short as They Say (1991)
- Memorabilia (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Stripper (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Rub (1991) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- In Daddy's Workshop (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Glarewolves (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Exogenesis (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Cold Man (1991)
- Changing Channelers (1991)
- Jesus Wept, But (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Brazilian Night (1991) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Censorship (1992) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Lunge (1992) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- So Say the Dead (1992) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Varicose (1992) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Morning: Cyrogenic Sleep Chamber (1992) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- After the Neo-Dark Age (1992) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Environmental (1992) with Ree Young
- Death of Horror Poetry - or Kill the Peckers (1992) with Steve Eng and W. Paul Ganley and Joey Froehlich and Wayne Edwards and Lisa Lepovetsky and Marge Simon and Ree Young
- Watching You Dance Between Punchlines (1993) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Awake (1993) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Eclipse of Reason (1993) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- In the Box (1993) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Feelers (1993) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Upon Finding Her Body Frozen in Snow (1994)
- Resuscitation (1994) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Learning to Write (1995)
- Piano Lessons (1995) [only as by Mike Arnzen ]
- Siamese Blood Brothers (1996)
- Smoker (1998) [also as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Commute (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Darkroom Cuts (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Stand Up Comic (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Wine (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Astronaut's Camping Trip (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Harvest Soliloquy Silent (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Green (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Poem Wall (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Dried Red Leech Found in a Dusty Book (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Frothing (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Night the Nativity Set Came Alive (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- rockface (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Chew Again (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Kids Watch in Horror as Clown Chokes To Death on Balloon (1999) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Wasp Sting Makes Barber Slash Man's Throat (1999) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Wet Tissue (2002)
- tortuous aorta (2002)
- Finding Her Stitches (2003)
- Why She Leaps (2003)
- eyebawl (2004)
- The End of the Fly (2004)
- six short films about chauncy the serial killer (2004)
- The Scab (2005)
- Umbilicile (2005)
- Genetic Defect Jennie (2005)
- Test Tube Tommy (2005)
- Soft Spot Sally (2005)
- Mutant Marcus (2005)
- The Conjoined Triplets (2005)
- Triple Face (2005)
- The Hairy Baby (2005)
- Spiderboy (2005)
- Girl Abandoned at Birth Raised by Rattlesnakes (2005)
- Needle Baby (2005)
- Woman Gives Birth to Full Grown Man (2005)
- Boy's Heart is on the Outside of His Body (2005)
- Born Every Minute (2005)
- Werecat Wally (2005)
- Mad Head (2005)
- Polka Clots (2005)
- A Personal Computer (2005)
- Freakshow Breakup (2005)
- Freaky Deak's Splatfall (2005)
- Upon Suicidal Tendencies Among Sword-Swallowing Shellfish-Eating Circus Freaks (2005)
- Claw Head (2005)
- Venting Frustrations (2005)
- The Incredible Edible Fred (2005)
- The Creep with No Head (2005)
- Inside the Man with No Eyelids (2005)
- How the Zombie Holocaust . . . (2005)
- Those Who Landed, Surprised to Discover That Zombies Had Taken Over the Planet (2005)
- muscle boy (2006)
- Not the Reaper (2007)
- The Divorcée at the Airport (2007)
- Proverbs for Monsters (2007)
- Unhinged (2007)
- Switched at Birth (unknown) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Pro Shop: Reading Texts, or, My Bookstore Is Talking To Me (1993) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Dealer's Choice (1994)
- "Behold the Funhole": Post-Structuralist Theory and Kathe Koja's The Cipher (1995)
- Introduction (Poking the Gun: The Selected Poetry of John Grey) (1998) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Liner Notes (Fluid Mosaic: And Other Outre Objects D'Art ) (2001)
- Introduction: Choking to Death: Musings on Kurt Newton's Dark Demons (2002) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Childhood and Literacy in "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" (2002)
- Introduction: Minimalist Horror (2002)
- Perfect Pitch (2003) [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- There Is Only One: The Restoration of the Repressed in The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2004)
- Introduction (Disposal) (2007)
- Scene and Structure in Horror (2009)
- Familial Ideology in The Exorcist (2011)
- Sorceries and Sorrows: Early Poems (1992) by Jessica Amanda Salmonson [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Underfoot (1993) by David C. Kopaska-Merkel [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- Handy Office Guide to Corporate Monsters (2002) by Mark McLaughlin [only as by Michael Arnzen ]
- The Scars Are Complimentary (2003) by John Edward Lawson