According to The Toronto Star, a new restaurant is opening in the city’s Koreatown area. It’s called Poop Cafe, where they make all sorts of foods that have the appearance of shit. I think those dishes are supposed to be urinals. You can try some of these toilet-themed desserts if […]
Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2016
Published on :Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: BEST NOVEL Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt Animal Money by Michael Cisco Bio Melt by Carlton Mellick […]
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What’s that sound? Do you feel it? The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance. Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing brings you Lost Signals, a tome of horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers stations, rogue transmissions, and other unimaginable sounds you only wish were fiction. Forget about […]
Mind Widening Music #5: Spike Jones
Published on :by Lee Widener In this month’s column it is my great pleasure to present an artist I consider the grandfather of Bizarro music, Spike Jones. Spike Jones was a drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader mostly popular in the 40s and 50s, though he did release some recordings in the 1960s. […]
Now Available: Puppet Skin
Published on :Puppet Skin, the latest book from bizarro humorist Danger Slater, has just been released by Fungasm Press! Fungasm is an imprint of high quality weirdness, and Danger Slater is one of the funniest weirdos in the scene right now. See for yourself by getting a copy right now. Hannah graduates […]
Now Available: Grudge Punk 2: Petroleum Precinct
Published on :Rooster Republic Press has released a sequel to Grudge Punk, a collection of bizarro noir by author John McNee. Grudge Punk 2: Petroleum Precinct, is available for Kindle. The King of Eyes is dead. Long live the King. The Grudge just ain’t what she used to be. In the aftermath […]
Weird Movie Watch: Swiss Army Man
Published on :Most of “The Weird Stuff” is underground, but every now and then something VERY strange comes along with enough charm and smarts to push through into the mainstream. That’s what we have in Swiss Army Man, just released to theaters this past weekend. It’s a story that seemingly shouldn’t exist, […]
Mind Widening Music #4: The Slow Poisoner
Published on :by Lee Widener For this installment of Bizarro Music, I’d like to introduce you to Andrew Goldfarb, otherwise known as “The Slow Poisoner.” I’d like to, but most of you are probably already familiar with him. For those of you who are not: Andrew Goldfarb is Bizarro’s true Renaissance man. […]
The Cat With Hands
Published on :We bizarros love weird stuff, and we’re always on the lookout for oddities that the internet has hidden away. Thanks to one of my fellow weirdos I found this little short film from 2001, and since I love weird shit and I LOVE stop-motion animation, I knew I should post […]
Weird Comic Watch: Dear Creature
Published on :When you’re an aquatic monstrosity with a hunger for human flesh, dating can be hard. Everyone on the beach runs away from you and your only friends are bottom-feeding crabs. This is the life of Grue, a pulpy lagoon creature who’s started reading Shakespeare and now wants to fall in […]
The 5 Ws of BizarroCon
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias A friend of yours shared something weird that caught your eye. Someone told you about it. You read an awesome blog post about the best chaos and creative mayhem in the history of ever. You only know it’s called BizarroCon, but you want to know more. I […]
Weird Movie Watch: Yakuza Apocalypse
Published on :If you’ve been around the bizarro genre long enough, then you know that Takashi Miike is one of our patron saints. Miike has made a ton of different movies but he’s never afraid to unleash mass cinematic insanity, whether it’s a horror film, a samurai film, or even children’s movies. His latest is […]
Wonderland Book Award Preliminary Voting Begins Now!
Published on :Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and Best Bizarro Collection of 2015. Please send your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes in the Novel and Collection categories to bizarrocon@gmail.com with the subject line “Wonderland Book Award Preliminary Ballot.” Preliminary voting ends […]
Mind Widening Music #3: Vivian Stanshall
Published on :by Lee Widener For the third edition of Bizarro Music, we travel across the sea to jolly ol’ England, to profile Vivian Stanshall. “Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet, and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band…” – Wikipedia Like many other […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Brain Painter
Published on :by Madeleine Swann Jesse lived a little way out of the city, so Ellen had told her husband that she was getting a pedicure. He would have denounced the whole thing and checked further into her spending. The room was so ordinary that Ellen was disappointed. Jesse took her fur coat […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Inaug(ment)(ir)ation Speech
Published on :by Goathead Buckley Stow your remaining fingers, fleshmen! Keep them warm and full of blood! There is work to be done. The battle is won, yet the war is far from over. Even now as we celebrate with hoot whistles and drug liquor, the mechanical menace of the Cyberoboticists rebuilds […]
Mind Widening Music #2: Dot Wiggin
Published on :by Lee Widener For the second edition of Bizarro Music, I’m going to talk about Dot Wiggin. But who is Dot Wiggin? You know who she is, you just don’t know you know. Yes, THAT Dot Wiggin – 1/3 of the Shaggs. Why am I singling her out? We’ll get […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Barking Squirrels
Published on :by Alex S. Johnson For Chris Ropes For a long time, I failed to grasp the significance, the true import, of barking squirrels. In my naivete, I thought they might be very small camels braying from the pine woods circling like wagons around my cottage. But I had never heard […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Transmundane Prognostications Discerned From Astrological Phenomena
Published on :by Tom Lucas, Metaphysical Dilettante The stars look down upon us and cast their judgment. What is their verdict for you? This can be determined by searching for your birthdate and sign below. Three-headed Wonder (March 1 – March 18): You are one with unsurpassed vision, but this gift has […]
Mind Widening Music #1: Frank Zappa
Published on :by Lee Widener This is the first in a monthly series I will be writing about Bizarro Music. We all are familiar with Bizarro Fiction, but what is Bizarro Music? In this column, I will illustrate what I mean by Bizarro Music by using the same principles used to define […]
Lazy Fascist weird horror ebook bundle
Published on :Looking for some killer bizarro books at a great price? Head on over to StoryBundle and pick up the Lazy Fascist weird horror ebook bundle. Name your own price for books by bizarro favorites like Jeremy Robert Johnson, Brian Allen Carr, Molly Tanzer, and John Skipp. This deal is only available […]
Heart of the Original: Originality, Creativity, Individuality by Steve Aylett
Published on :review by G. Arthur Brown In order to understand The Heart of the Original, we must first attempt to understand its author, Steve Aylett, but we find this is impossible for several reasons. Aylett is almost as mysterious as he is brilliant. Great portions of his history have been erased […]
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
Published on :review by G. Arthur Brown I’ve been a Brian Evenson fan for almost eight years now and I’m happy to say this fact has improved my life. It can improve your life as well with the small investment that is A Collapse of Horses, Evenson’s latest story collection. On the […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Mandy De Sandra
Published on :Sometimes you do an interview and then life happens and the interview never sees the light of day. That happened to me with this interview you’re reading right now. Luckily, it’s never too late to take a look at the shelves of the queen of bizarro erotica, the great Mandy […]
The Strangest: An Interview With Michael J. Seidlinger
Published on :by Laurance Friend Laurance Friend: Did you have to choose between coffee and suicide this morning? Are you really alive? Michael J. Seidlinger: Truth is I’m already dead and the only thing keeping my body from rotting away is coffee, lots and lots of coffee. Dead is better because you […]
Interview with Richard Thomas
Published on :by Jeremy C. Shipp Richard Thomas is a brilliant author, and he’s Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press. Richard has taken time out of his busy schedule to chat with me about Smurfs, Gamut Magazine, and other topics. Jeremy C. Shipp: Hi, Richard. Welcome to my little chthonic cave. I hope you didn’t […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Dope
Published on :by Leza Cantoral They say they saw little green men on the moon. In the darkness, you can touch yourself but then the lights flash bright and the little green men put cold hard objects into your orifices. They drip milk into your eyes. They fill you with their sperm […]
The JEFF ATTACKS Podcast
Published on :Deadite Press head editor, Jeff Burk (Shatnerquake, Super Giant Monster Time, Cripple Wolf, and Shatnerquest), has started a new podcast about weirdo artists, strange creators, bizarre performers, and shit he thinks is cool. The first four episodes are now live and feature interviews with Andrew Goldfarb, Pedro Proença, and Veronica […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Ode to the Freaks
Published on :by Tracy Vanity After getting worked up over last season’s “Coven” and being completely disappointed, I was skeptical about the newest season of “American Horror Story.” Being a big fan of Tod Browning’s Freaks, as well as “Carnivale,” and The Pilo Family Circus, I adore sideshows and carnivals. The “Freak Show” theme has a lot […]
New Bizarro Author Series Review #29: There’s No Happy Ending by Tiffany Scandal
Published on :by J.W. Wargo Id Says:…And they lived happily ever afterrrrrrrr!!! Or not. Let’s just say that these two lovebirds have a lot of shit to put of with to get to any ending at all. It’s not exactly the kind of world you think about a future with husbands, wives, […]
A Word from Eraserhead Press
Published on :Do you love and seek out weirdness? Do you want to read things that stimulate your imagination and make you see the world differently? Are you sick of things that are boring? We are! Everyone says that they want to read something unique, but not everyone means it like bizarro […]
Weird Art Month: Cahill Wessel
Published on :By Sam Reeve San Francisco Bay artist Cahill Wessel plays around with pop culture in surreal and hilarious ways, giving you everything you’d ever hoped to see. Hover over the pictures (or click through the gallery) to view the titles of each piece – they’re almost as golden as the […]
The Tea House: Andy de Fonseca
Published on :Guest Post by Andy de Fonseca Today is brought to you by water. Plain, boring, ever-so-wishing it were something more, water. I realize how dull water will seem to everyone. How bland, how unimpressive, how… not special it is. And that’s where my article begins. Does every kid go through […]
Weird Art Month: Jessica Joslin
Published on :By Sam Reeve When I stumbled upon Jessica Joslin’s work I was not only stunned by its beauty and detail, but by the sheer amount of it. She’s already got over 200 of these sculptures to her name, and her menagerie of brass and bone only keeps growing. She gives […]
Weird Art Month – SCARECROWOVEN
Published on :By Sam Reeve Mysterious New York-based illustrator SCARECROWOVEN is a fan of gore, guts, and oozing appendages. His gnarled creatures take a cue from ‘comic books, sci-fi and horror movies and all the illustration that came out of the skateboard world in the 80’s.’ He describes himself as an alien […]
