Paratabloids

by Michael A. Arnzen

"WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO 7-LB EYEBALL!" "I DIED AND WATCHED MY OWN SURGERY!" "ANT JUICE CURES ARTHRITIS!"

Sound familiar? Nearly everyone knows that the stories in the tabloids aren't real, but pulp newspapers like the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS outsell most "real news" magazines. And that's because—in some subtle, unconscious way—the tabloids are reporting the truth.

In PARATABLOIDS, Bram Stoker Award-winning horror writer Michael A. Arnzen captures that truth in 22 poems that steal actual headlines from the tabloids and tell the truth in a way that only Arnzen can. These poems all relish the outré, the insane, and the grotesque, telling the untold—and often quite touching—stories that lie right under the surface of the headlines.

"This is poetry like you've never heard it before!"

48 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2000

About the author

Michael Arnzen has won multiple awards for his fiction and poetry, including four Bram Stoker Awards and the International Horror Guild Award. He teaches horror and suspense writing at Seton Hill University, as faculty in their unique MFA degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.

To catch up with Arnzen or hunt down collectable editions, visit the author's website, GORELETS.COM Or tune in his new podcast: 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen at http://6m66s.com/