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 […]
Dilation Exercise 105
Published on :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 […]
New Bizarro Author Series Review #32: 8-Bit Apocalypse by Amanda Billings
Published on :by J.W. Wargo Id Says:BWEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!! Toss in another quarter, don’t let the bastard die! Who the fuck thought to bury all those Atari cartridges in New “No Lives Here So Let’s Test Another Nuke” Mexico? Don’t they know what happens when anything is introduced to radioactivity?? Haven’t they seen GODZILLA??? […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Animated Gif Apocalypse!
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Dilation Exercise 104
Published on :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 […]
Bizarro Breaking News: 12-year-old Girls Stab a Peer 19 Times in the Name of Slenderman
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Prosecutors say two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please a mythological creature they learned about online. Both girls were charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court; they each face up to […]
Dilation Exercise 103
Published on :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 […]
New Bizarro Author Series Review #31: The Mondo Vixen Massacre by Jamie Grefe
Published on :by J.W. Wargo Id Says:SSSSSSPPPPLLLLLUUUUUUUUUURRRRRTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! Fucking stab my dick with a stiletto heel! Vixens have gone mucho loco terrorizing the world with their outrageously sadistic games. No one is spared. Middle class suburbia is turned to rubble, families torn apart both figuratively and literally. Oh, but they fucked up royally […]
Bizarro Central’s Summer Reading List
Published on :We asked more than a dozen authors of bizarro fiction to name the book they’re most excited to read this summer. The resulting list is a mix of new releases, classics, and a few that may surprise you. If you’re looking for a great summer read, here’s what sixteen bizarro fiction stars […]
A Talking Eyeball Walks into a Bar: An Introduction to Bizarro Fiction
Published on :Bradley Sands is teaching an online class on writing bizarro fiction. It’s for a new lit site called Lit Demon. In this workshop you will learn to write high-concept bizarro while concentrating on the absurd and the surreal. You will discover what “high concept” means and learn what appeals to bizarro readers. We […]
Dilation Exercise 102
Published on :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 […]
Bizarro Breaking News: 8-legged Hermaphroditic Goat Born in Croatia
Published on :This extraordinary baby goat has EIGHT legs and both male and female reproductive organs. Vets say the extraordinary animal’s extra limbs are the result of an underdeveloped twin sibling. Croatian farmer Zoran Paparic’s couldn’t believe what he was seeing when his goat Sarka recently gave birth. He said: “I counted his legs and […]
New Kindle eBook from Jeff Burk
Published on :From the same author that brought you SHATNERQUAKE, SUPER GIANT MONSTER TIME, CRIPPLE WOLF, and SHATNERQUEST comes… Jeff Burk is the cult favorite author of several books including SHATNERQUAKE and CRIPPLE WOLF. He is also one of the most original, ridiculous, and nerdy voices in the bizarro genre. B-MOVIES AND […]
Dilation Exercise 101
Published on :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 […]
The Tea House: Cross Training
Published on :by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by a San Francisco French Roast, with milk and sugar. One of the remarkable things about being human is our innate need to create. Whether it’s dinner or a song or a flower garden or a method for more effectively driving to […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Josh Myers
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Josh Myers is a cool guy who likes to read and write books, so we got along from the start. After reading Feast of Oblivion, published by Copeland Valley Press in 2012, I wanted more of his fiction. He said he was working on something. That was […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro Photoblast
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New Bizarro Author Series Review #30: The Church of TV as God by Daniel Vlasaty
Published on :by J.W. Wargo Id Says:HOOOOLLLLLLYYYYYY EMERGENCY BROADCASTING SYSTEM!!!! Everyone knows TV addicts are out there, but fucking television cultists praying in a house of screens? And now their zealous boob-tube leader thinks he’s found their savior. Oh, great are the cable channel deity motherfuckers! This cathode-ray of sunshine doesn’t know […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Semana Santa
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Also known as “Holy Week” this Catholic festival takes place before Easter every year in parts of Spain and Latin America. If you have watched “American Horror Story: Coven” the creepy pointed hoods in the intro will be familiar: Referred to as capirotes, these cloaks are used by […]
Dilation Exercise 100
Published on :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 […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup, April Fools’ Edition!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity What’s fake and what’s real? Does it even make a difference? Here’s the latest weird news, hot off the internet! NETFLIX unveils awesome “Cage Mode” films! Darth Vader is running for president of the Ukraine! Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup, April Fools’ Edition! What’s fake and what’s real? Does […]
Dilation Exercise 99
Published on :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 […]
The Tea House: On Organization and Planning
Published on :Guest Post by S.T. Cartledge Today’s Tea House post is brought to you by a good old fashioned Irish Breakfast tea. It’s nothing fancy, it’s just a good, reliable tea. It’s a great way to start the morning. I recently moved house, and there’s been a period of about a week […]
Show Me Your Shelves: CV Hunt and Andersen Prunty
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias You want to talk about talented duos? It doesn’t get better than these two. Seriously. Andersen Prunty is one of my favorite authors, an editor/publisher whose taste I agree with and whose work ethic I admire, and a man I got to “study” for an author spotlight […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Nightmare hunting with M dot Strange!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity In a town that never changes, children must work and adults get to play. But something is really off about this place called “Lantern Town”…first of all, there are only five children in the whole town and their job is to go out every night to look […]
Book Trailer for The Door That Faced West
Published on :A friend suggested I make a book trailer for my new novel—The Door That Faced West, released by Lazy Fascist Press—using my illustrations that appear in the book. I used iMovie and it came out pretty well. Click on this link to view the trailer. If the film doesn’t appear […]
The Tea House: Making Art in the Social Media Age
Published on :by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by a hot toddy. Over at the delightful Myth and Moor blog, amazing writer, editor, and artist Terri Windling recently discussed the issues surrounding using the Internet as a break while working. Go on, go take a look. I’ll wait. I definitely […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro Short Film Festival
Published on :by Tracy Vanity This first Bizarro short is pretty much Batman with clowns. I love clowns. Avey Tare from Animal Collective created this music video to promote his album “Enter the Slasher House.” Little Fang, the cat vampire-looking puppet, is from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and there is a serious nod […]
The Tea House: In Balance
Published on :by Spike Marlowe Today is brought to you by green power hour juice. Being an artist is hard work. For me, it’s a combination of physical, mental, psychological, emotional and spiritual work. A good day of writing is exciting, and I’m fueled at the end of my work, absolutely filled […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Violet LeVoit
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias I hate talking to dumb people, so I usually pay attention to what folks around me say and then talk to the smart ones. I met Violet LeVoit at BizarroCon last year, and she was a few notches above smart. Then we talked movies and, just as […]
Twisted Tuesdays: Antlers & Horror
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Antlers are a predominant image in the “Hannibal” television series. It is represented in connection to the Wendigo, a metaphor for Hannibal Lecter himself. The Wendigo is an antlered demonic cannibalistic spirit in Algonquian legend. There is also a mental disorder called the “Wendigo Psychosis” in which the […]
Women and Children in the Time of The Door That Faced West
Published on :(In this post, I speak in general terms about women’s issues in the years 1799-1800. Exceptions to what I’ll note existed, but they were few and far between.) The point-of-view character in my new novel, The Door That Faced West, (released in February by Lazy Fascist Press) is a sixteen-year-old […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Max Booth III
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Max Booth III is an author, editor, and publisher of weird fiction. He also does strange things in a hotel at night for a living. He loves books and rumor has it he has a new one out there, so I asked him to show me his […]
Meanwhile in Japan…
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Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Texas man stabbed with Legend of Zelda Sword is in serious condition. Cat attacks the shit out of a British man for wearing Hugo Boss cologne. “The Swiss Cheese Pervert” has struck again! Another victim came forward over the weekend, the fourth woman accusing 42-year-old Christopher Pagano […]