Greensburg, PA – Seton Hill's associate professor of English Dr. Michael Arnzen recently accepted his second Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement - the most prestigious award in the horror-writing genre – for his e-mail newsletter, "The Goreletter." "The Goreletter" topped the "Alternative Forms" category at this year's Stoker Awards. Arnzen won his first Stoker award for the novel "Grave Markings" in 1995.

"We are living in an era of alternative forms," said Arnzen in his acceptance speech, "and I would like to think that this category allows us to not only recognize it, but also remain actively engaged in our era. After all, horror is an alternative form in the literary marketplace. And for that reason, I am doubly honored to receive this award."

Arnzen also accepted the Stoker Award in the "Poetry" category (a category for which Arnzen's work "Gorelets, Unpleasant Poems" was also nominated) on behalf of colleague Bruce Boston. Boston's "Pitchblende," a book which Arnzen edited and compiled, took top honors in this category.

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) presented the Bram Stoker Awards at its 17th Annual Conference in New York City on June 5. HWA, a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals, is the oldest and most respected professional organization dedicated to the "much-loved writers who bring you the most enjoyable sleepless nights of your life."

Other winners at this year's Stokers included J.K. Rowling for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," Peter Straub for his novel "lost boy lost girl," and Anne Rice, author of "The Vampire Chronicles," who received a lifetime achievement award.

Arnzen will be signing his newest collection of short stories "100 Jolts," on June 24 at 8 p.m. in the Greensburg, PA Barnes and Noble. Arnzen will be joined by Gary Braunbeck, fellow Stoker Award winner for "Duty" and adjunct faculty in Seton Hill's Graduate Program in Writing Popular Fiction, who will be signing copies of his newest work "In Silent Graves." For more information on Dr. Arnzen's fiction, please visit www.gorelets.com.

Both Arnzen and Braunbeck teach horror writing in Seton Hill's unique Master of the Arts degree program in Writing Popular Fiction. For more information, visit fiction.setonhill.edu.

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