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Michael Arnzen
Michael A. Arnzen (born May 17, 1967) is an American horror writer. He has won the Bram Stoker Award three times. Early life and education Arnzen was born on May 17, 1967, in Amityville, New York. After a brief stint in the United States Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado, where he began his writing career. Arnzen received the Bram Stoker Award in 1994 for ''Grave Markings''. Shortly thereafter, he earned a master's degree while working on his second novel, soon followed by his Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon, where he studied the role of horror and nostalgia in 20th-century culture in a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny. ''100 Jolts'' (Raw Dog Screaming Press) features 100 of Arnzen's flash fiction stories. His short story collection, ''Fluid Mosaic'' (Wildside Press) collects his best stories from the 1990s. His poetry chapbooks include ''Freakcidents'', ''Gorelets: Unpleasant Poetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amityville, New York
Amityville () is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Village, village near the Babylon (town), New York, Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on the South Shore (Long Island), South Shore of Long Island, in New York (state), New York. The population was 9,523 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. History Huntington (CDP), New York, Huntington settlers first visited the Amityville area in 1653 due to its location to a source of salt hay for use as animal fodder. Wyandanch (sachem), Chief Wyandanch granted the first deed to land in Amityville in 1658. The area was originally called ''Huntington West Neck South'' (it is on the Great South Bay and Suffolk County, New York border in the southwest corner of what once called Huntington South), but is now the Town of Babylon. According to village lore, the name was changed in 1846 when residents were working to establish its new post office. The meeting turned into bedlam and one participant was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word ''nostalgia'' is a learned formation of a Greek language, Greek compound, consisting of (''nóstos''), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and (''álgos''), meaning "sorrow" or "despair", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of Depression (mood), melancholy—in the Early Modern period, it became an important Trope (literature), trope in Romanticism. Nostalgia is associated with a longing for the past, its personalities, possibilities, and events, especially the "Good old days, good ol' days" or a "warm childhood". There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, for people to view the past more favourably and future more negatively. When applied to one's beliefs about a society or institutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Horror Fiction Authors
This is a list of some (not all) notable writers in the horror fiction genre. Note that some writers listed below have also written in other genres, especially fantasy and science fiction. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Z See also Subgenres: *Body horror *Cthulhu Mythos *Dark fantasy *Erotic horror *Fantastique *Ghost story *Lovecraftian horror *Psychological horror *Splatterpunk *Vampire fiction *Werewolf fiction *Weird fiction Author lists: *List of fantasy authors *List of Clarion South Writers Workshop Instructors * List of Clarion West Writers Workshop Alumni * List of Clarion West Writers Workshop Instructors *List of Clarion Writers Workshop Alumni *List of Clarion Writers Workshop Instructors * List of notable 20th-century writers *List of science fiction authors *Lists of writers External links *Horror Writers Association {{Horror fiction Horror fiction Horror is a genre of fiction which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mastication Publications
Chewing or mastication is the process by which food is crushed and ground by teeth. It is the first step of digestion Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma. In certain organisms, these smaller substances are absorbed through the small intest ..., and it increases the surface area of foods to allow a more efficient break down by enzymes. During the mastication process, the food is positioned by the cheek and tongue between the teeth for grinding. The muscles of mastication move the jaws to bring the teeth into intermittent contact, repeatedly occlusion (dentistry), occluding and opening. As chewing continues, the food is made softer and warmer, and the enzymes in saliva begin to break down carbohydrates in the food. After chewing, the food (now called a Bolus (digestion), bolus) is swallowed. It enters the esophagus and via peristalsis continues on to the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
