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by Gabino Iglesias Chris Kelso is one of those dudes who’s simultaneously likable and hard to love. Sure, he’s easy to get along with and always has a smile on his face, but then you read his books and you go “Fuck this guy, I wish I’d written this.” Oh, […]
by Tracy Vanity It’s Dia de Los Muertos already, I was too busy getting wasted and putting on zombie makeup to make a post on Halloween proper but here’s my belated Halloween gift to you. A bombardment of creepy pics! You should play this song while viewing them. Bonus: My friend […]
by Tracy Vanity It’s Devil’s Night Bizarros! Time to play some pranks, set fire to shit, and hail Satan! You can even name your cat, dog, or kid, after a demon. Speaking of animals, here are 6 animals who surely came from the depths of hell or were at least named after The […]
by Tracy Vanity 3 Days Until Halloween! Did you know that in the film, The Exorcist, the entire set of the MacNeil residence caught on fire except for Reagan’s room? A priest was brought in several times to bless the set but weird shit kept happening. Linda Blair’s harness kept breaking so […]
by Tracy Vanity (All photos courtesy of Paul Koudounaris) 3 more days until Halloween! Paul Koudounaris is paranormal catnip. Unexplained and weird phenomena gravitate towards him like death moths to a preternatural flame. He specializes in finding the most unique shrines to the dead which also sometimes end up finding him. He […]
by Tracy Vanity 4 days until Halloween. Gizmodo has a good article on Project MKultra. It’s pretty creepy. As are vintage Halloween kids…
Tracy Vanity 5 days until Halloween! I can’t believe it’s almost Halloween already. And I still have so much spooky shit to show you! Looks like a normal old book but it is quite unique. Harvard University recently discovered one of their library books was bound in human leather! The book is called Des […]
Tracy Vanity 6 days until Halloween! Although there aren’t as many female serial killers as there are male, there’s still quite an extensive list of killer women. Typically, female killers murder lovers, kids, or work as nurses and off their patients in some twisted “angel of mercy” syndrome. Some just do […]
by Tracy Vanity I’m very pleased with how “American Horror Story: Freak Show” is coming along. The characters are fun, especially Twisty. You can be Twisty for Halloween! Here is a tutorial: But not everyone is pleased with Twisty’s antics. The Clowns of America International think Twisty makes all clowns look bad, […]
by Tracy Vanity Watching horror movies is a staple all year for most of us and triples on Halloween. With all this extra horror film viewing comes the lists! Most disturbing, best Halloween 80’s nostalgia, best ever period! Since there are lists galore of best horror films to watch, and do feel […]
by Tracy Vanity Do you have any favorite creepy comics?
by Tracy Vanity In 1970, a doctor by the name of Robert J. White transplanted the heads of two rhesus monkeys. The procedure was a “success” since the animals were alive and responded to stimuli. They were able to move their heads and even bite a pencil. What’s worse, they could […]
By Tracy Vanity Can’t carve worth a shit? You can buy a California organic “Pumpkenstein.” The price for this molded monster masterpiece? $75! In more monster pumpkin news, this 2,058 pound pumpkin set a record. 5,000 brown recluse spiders invade a house in Missouri. Boy dies from brown recluse bite. Just in […]
by Tracy Vanity Lots of people have been sending me links to this promo video for the most extreme haunted house ever created. I’m glad that fucked up Halloween shit reminds you of me. I’m touched. If you have not yet watched the video, watch it! https://youtu.be/vl6CGlBVpCA (Could not be […]
by Tracy Vanity Colin Raff, aka ZBags, is a talented, surreal artist who makes the most trippy gifs you will ever see in your life. I messaged Colin on tumblr, asking him to say a few words about his amazing gifs and to tell me what his favorite horror movie is: […]
by Tracy Vanity The Queen of Halloween just premiered a new music video for her purple vinyl 7″ single. “2 Big Pumpkins” is out today from Third Man Records. She’s hotter than ever! Elvira is performing at Knott’s Scary Farm and has a Halloween series on Hulu called “13 Nights of Elvira.” Cassandra Peterson […]
by Tracy Vanity The Dark Ages were full of amazing things like kings and queens, the plague, and some of the most inventive methods of torture that are still used today. Here are some of the most inventive methods of old school torture. The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, […]
by Tracy Vanity Behold! A collection of horror songs to help you while doing something spooky and debaucherous during your first weekend of October! Texas Chainsaw 3D Mash-Up https://youtu.be/lQUcnOO7uFU Do you have any favorite spooky songs? Please share them so I can add them to my ever expanding Halloween YouTube mix and future […]
by Tracy Vanity What better way to kick off October than with a Halloween horror classic that’s about a countdown to Halloween? Unlike the other Halloween films, this movie has nothing to do with Michael Myers, who only makes a brief appearance in a TV commercial. This film stands alone in its […]
by Tracy Vanity Only a cenobite can making eating a pizza look fucking metal. The Hellraiser films are an essential part of any Halloween horror film marathon. My favorite is Hellbound Hellraiser. More pics at The Hellbound Web.
by Tracy Vanity It’s that magical time of year again! And yes, Halloween is still awesome. Just like this Japanese zombie Lolita metal music video: This is the time to fully appreciate the wonders of horror Happy Meal art and zombie Chia Pets no matter how fucking old we are! To get you lubed up for […]
by Gabino Iglesias Cody Goodfellow. Man, I don’t know what else to tell you people about Cody Goodfellow. I’ve interviewed him and reviewed his work because what he does is the kind of rare thing that actually deserves attention. If you don’t get it by now, you probably never will. […]
Click here to buy the paperback. Click here to buy the Kindle edition. Out now from Broken River Books: LEPRECHAUN IN THE HOOD: THE MUSICAL: A NOVEL by Cameron Pierce, Adam Cesare, and Shane McKenzie Thirty, jobless, and going prematurely bald, amateur director Simon has dumped every last dime into […]
CLICK HERE to get yours today! An apocalyptic nightmare in the tradition of Uzumaki, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Tetsuo: The Iron Man.In the mining town of Itchy Zoo lives a boy with pumpkin flesh. His name is Tetsuo, and he’d like to tell you about the terrible things that brought ruin to his town. […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. It uses an illustration from his new novel, Say Anything But Your Prayers, released today by Lazy Fascist Press, and is inspired by the story. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to […]
by Gabino Iglesias Shane Cartledge is one of the really cool emerging voices in bizarro fiction. His first book, House Hunter, was published in 2012 as part of the New Bizarro Author Series. Since BizarroCon is nonstop fun and mayhem, I didn’t get to sit down with my Bionic Brother in […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. It uses an illustration from his new novel, Say Anything But Your Prayers, released today by Lazy Fascist Press, and is inspired by the story. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to […]
by Jeff Burk “BIZARRO ACROSS AMERICA” PROGRESSIVE BOOK TOUR BRINGS STRANGE NEW VOICES TO THE EAST COAST! In September 2014, the writers, artists and co-conspirators of the Bizarro genre are coming to Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, to spread the gospel of Bizarro Fiction to new audiences and die-hard […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires an idea, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
by Gabino Iglesias I interviewed Kirk Jones when he was part of the NBAS (seventeen years ago according to my math). He was a cool guy and we quickly became friends. Since then, we’ve talked books on more than one occasion and I’ve bothered him about his next book from […]
Below you’ll find the weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture and read the caption and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If you need a further explanation go to Imagination Workout—What is This? History’s dump site, the Will Have Not Bin or Will’ven’t Bin as it […]
by Tracy Vanity News of nonstop war and social collapse getting you down? Didn’t know that shit was happening? Doesn’t matter! It’s time to slide on down for a Bizarro News Roundup! Indian teen with rare medical condition has 232 teeth removed from his mouth. Indian man finds a 5-foot crocodile in his shower. […]
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires a story, please use the comment feature to tell us something about it. Need […]
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by Tracy Vanity Gollums, Neverending Story dragon-slaying, alien sightings, cannibalism, and yet another step towards the robot apocalypse. It’s time for a Bizarro News Roundup kids! Yee-haw! While on vacation, a Chinese tourist happened across a golum-like creature while taking a piss. News reports say the creature resembles Gollum from Lord of […]
