Fluid Mosaic [Paperback]

Michael Arnzen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Alan Rodgers Books | Publication Date: February 4, 2003

Thirteen outrZ tales of the macabre from a morbidly brilliant author
PRAISE FOR THE WORKS OF MICHAEL A. ARNZEN:


'MICHAEL ARNZEN PRESENTS UNNERVING DESCRIPTION. . . .'

-- Publisher's Weekly


'MICHAEL A. ARNZEN IS . . . THE MOST INTERESTING NEW VOICE THIS YEAR. His style is a down-home streetwise slang, hard and blunt, a little reminiscent of Joe R. Lansdale's crime novels, but without his southern sense of gothic madness. His work is a strange psychological exploration of desperation and insanity. . . .'


--Locus

Product Details

• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (February 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158715269X
• ISBN-13: 978-1587152696
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,470,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Arnzen (http://gorelets.com) is an award-winning author of horror and dark suspense fiction, a poet, and an English professor. His trophy case includes four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing stories. The best of these appear in the Bram Stoker Award-winning career-length retrospective, Proverbs for Monsters, which Dread Central called "a guided tour of insanity and the macabre, with a few moments of touching grace combined with repulsive terror...[which] serves to document the evolution of a great writer."

Arnzen holds a PhD in English from the University of Oregon (where he researched his non-fiction book, The Popular Uncanny) and he is presently a Professor at Seton Hill University, where he teaches horror and suspense fiction in the country's only graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction (http://fiction.setonhill.edu).

Arnzen resides near Pittsburgh, PA, with his wife of many years, Renate, and a brood of deranged cats.

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"In a little over a decade, Michael A. Arnzen has achieved what few writers manage in a lifetime. He has become the master of a brand of literature that is uniquely his own, and I do not doubt that his approach to horror will soon (if it has not already) be referred to as 'Arnzenian.' When you begin an Arnzen story, you embark on a journey where the old maps do not apply. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory, barreling through landscapes more fascinating and twisted than any previously encountered. Be assured, you will be amazed, startled, amused, and creeped out along the way, but whatever the road has in store, you will not be able to stop reading until the story ends. Horrifying, captivating, ironic -- Arnzenian! -- the works of Michael A. Arnzen are in a class all their own. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" -- Lawrence C. Connolly, author of Veins

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