It’s weird. It’s funky. It’s ready to fill your heart with horrendous horror and rapturous rap music. It’s Cody Goodfellow’s all-new all-different BABY GOT BASS!
New Release: Under the Shanghai Tunnels
Published on :“In these stories, you’ll discover legends, monsters, secret tunnels, and magical elves–along with some interesting true history. Widener has a way of combining the gritty and the whimsical, crafting tall tales that exude streetwise wisdom and his own unique sense of humor. Imagine traditional fairy tales embellished by a wise-cracking […]
Flash Fiction Friday: The Chaotic Butterfly
Published on :by: James Burr It was a cold October morning when Eleonora Pinkerton first realised that her actions influenced it all. Like that apocryphal butterfly whose beating wings can cause hurricanes on the other side of the world, Eleonora concluded that her every action influenced Everything: scratching an itch would cause […]
Pre-Order: Apollo Unbound
Published on :Courtesy of Luna Press comes a weird graphic novel by Chris Kelso and Jim Agpalza, APOLLO UNBOUND! Here is the info from Luna Press: Scottish Writer Chris Kelso and Hawaiian artist Jim Agpalza have created Luna’s first comic, the surreal, Lynchian journey, Apollo Unbound, where Hollywood icon Apollo Calloway wakes up in the […]
New Release: TV Dinners from Hell
Published on :Don’t touch that dial! TV Dinners from Hell, the debut fiction collection from Amber Fallon, includes 17 stories from the twisted mind that brought you The Terminal and The Warblers! Almost half of the stories have never before been published! From the introduction by celebrated author and reigning queen of […]
Portlanders, see the Bootleg Brilliance of Ghana’s Movie Posters!
Published on :Portland Bizarros were lucky enough this week to see a gallery show of movie posters from Ghana. These posters are hand-painted on canvas or burlap sacks, and the edges are torn and ripped where they were tacked onto billboards, torn down, and then retacked as the films travel around to […]
New Release: Drinking Until Morning, French Edition
Published on :Justin Grimbol’s emotional, degenerate coming-of-age novella is now available in French! As if Grimbol’s amazingly perverse and heartwarming fiction wasn’t classy enough. Get yours here, s’il vous plaît
New Release: The Long Night of the Eternal Korean War
Published on :“Syntactically immaculate.” – Jeremy Robert Johnson, Author of Skullcrack City The Korean War. It lasted three years. Or it never ended. Probably one of those. Maybe it ran as long as the ratings were high. Monroe’s an army doctor who just wants to know what’s going on: why the days […]
Weird Event Watch
Published on :There are TONS of bizarro events on the horizon. So if you’re actually within throwing distance of any of these events, schedule your next two weeks accordingly! Friday, October 20, 7:00 pm at Copperfield Books in Petaluma, CA: Join Ross Lockhart as he hosts Brian Allen Carr and his weird, […]
Music Video Release: SPIDORA! by the Slow Poisoner
Published on :The Slow Poisoner wishes for you to enter the wicked web of… SPIDORA!
New Release: Girl in the Glass Planet
Published on :Girl in the Glass Planet is an aural cyberpunk fantasy where the Pied Piper meets Franz Kafka in a labyrinth of glass tunnels and grotesque alien insects. Follow Cyberia (the girl in the glass planet) as she joins Darko, Basho, and the Shinkai in hunting down Zatoichi (a god-like creature […]
Clash Books releases and pre-orders!
Published on :“Fresh, weird and funny. Bauman’s work is a genuine surprise.” –Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls “Ghosts trying to get laid, an “erotic” burning bush, forbidden love between sea monsters and more fill this collection of Torah-influenced bizarro, horror, and pulp fiction. You gotta dig any book that […]
New Release: Quizzleboon
Published on :QUIZZLEBOON is a redneck fairy tale about Leon Hicks, a one-eyed outlaw who joins an anarchist collective in the hills of North Carolina. Guided by an imaginary man from the moon named Mr. Quizzleboon, Leon searches within these dirt people for a sense of family that seems forever out of […]
New Release: Parasite Milk
Published on :WEIRD WORLD. WEIRD PEOPLE. WEIRD FOOD. Irving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case […]
Farewell to Lazy Fascist Press
Published on :Lazy Fascist Press, purveyor of the very best in strange literature, has shut its doors. Everyone associated with bizarro fiction along with many others throughout the literary world owe a great deal to Lazy Fascist and its editor Cameron Pierce. Below you’ll find his parting words. I’m proud to announce […]
Preorder Now: All Monster Action & Kill Your Neighbor
Published on :Lots of great books are coming out this fall, and here are two you should go ahead and buy ahead of time… All Monster Action “Fuck, I wish I thought of that. . .” —Guillermo del Toro, director of PACIFIC RIM and PAN’S LABYRINTH, after being accosted in the Iliad […]
Pre-Order Trailer for DEATH PACTS AND LEFT-HAND PATHS
Published on :Who doesn’t love evil floating heads? Not you, is the answer to that question. Here’s an exceptionally evil specimen with news that you can pre-order John Wayne Comunale’s DEATH PACTS AND LEFT-HAND PATHS on Amazon (officially released on Oct 3rd).
Book Trailer: ROXY
Published on :Christopher Lesko’s latest book, ROXY, is available for purchase along with this creepy book trailer, which is just plain free. Told in the most original and bizarre way possible using Saturday Night Fever soundtrack song titles for chapter titles, Roxy is the story of Murray and his human made-to-order bride. […]
New Release: More Bizarro Than Bizarro
Published on :Bizarro Pulp Press presents… A showcase of the written word that represents the best of the weird and the grotesque; More Bizarro Than Bizarro is a gallery of the strange and unusual, including possibly-dead detectives, a beer-head invasion, some especially delicious cookies, the dream of Jackie Kennedy, and of course, […]
Bizarro Fiction at LitReactor
Published on :Gabino Iglesias offered a smorgasbord of reasons why you should check out the bizarro genre, including “an invitation to drop whatever formulaic mess you might be reading now and enter a world where rules don’t apply and anything can, and does, happen.” So head over to LitReactor for a very […]
Nicholas Day has an offer you can’t refuse…
Published on :It’s that time in a book’s life when its author goes internet-spelunking for Amazon reviews… Post your Amazon review for NOW THAT WE’RE ALONE, and then link your review in the replies for this comment. Send me a note in Facebook Messenger (or your social media of choice) letting me […]
Weird Anthology Watch
Published on :Two anthologies have recently arrived, each featuring some familiar names from the bizarro scene. First, Lee Widener has a story called He Was So Old in the latest issue of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine. And both Cody Goodfellow and Garrett Cook appear in A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession from Martian […]
Adam Millard’s Stop Motion Insanity
Published on :Weird writer Adam Millard has written, directed, animated, and given artistic birth to his own stop motion short! It’s called WE’RE GONNA PLAY A GAME, and it’s a parody of the Saw franchise. Enjoy!
Flash Fiction Friday: Sun Kissed
Published on :by: Austin James The man managed to find (logistically speaking) the worst possible location in the mud pit; too far from the center to gather any real moisture for rehydration, yet also too far from the edge to avoid getting stuck. I say ‘man’ because whatever it was, it appeared […]
Prom Night on the River of Death Bizarro Book and Beer Release Party
Published on :Well, that kick ass poster pretty much says it all.
New Release: Die Empty
Published on :middle age n. 1. Spending one year’s disposable income on vinyl figures, only to realize a complete He-Man collection isn’t going to make your current life any better. Beast Man and Cyclops don’t give a fuck about you or your failing marriage. 2. Resolving to die empty and alone. 3. Death […]
New Release: The Warblers
Published on :After the sun would go down, I’d hear them out there, back by the shed, shrieking their twisted warbling cries out there in the night, followed by squeals of whatever prey they’d managed to hunt down. When his rural farm becomes overrun with terrifying beasts called Warblers capable of eating […]
New Release: Sip
Published on :A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survival It started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, artificial lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure glow of the moon. […]
Help Bizarro Artist Lee Widener Create!
Published on :Lee Widener is an artist who’s weird, and now he’s asking you, The Internet, to help him continue making weird art. Here’s the pitch: I have gotten a lot of good feedback on my weird cartoons and artwork over the years and recently decided to offer my artwork on a […]
DONALD TRUMP AMERICA JONES
Published on :Kevin Shamel was kind enough to send over a piece of fiction about the dystopian Conservative-vs-Liberal hellscape that will soon wash over America with Donald Trump at the helm. We here at Bizarro Central liked the story so much that we’re presenting it all this week in four installments [archived […]
Available for Preorder: Engines of Ruin
Published on :Lucas Mangum is offering his latest collection of short stories, ENGINES OF RUIN, for the very reasonable price of WHATEVER YOU WANT! Head over to Lucas’ website and pay what you want. The book will be released and sent right to you on October 1st! This collection of eight short […]
New Release: Spermjackers from Hell
Published on :Let’s summon a succubus, they said. It’ll be fun, they said… I have some friends and we had a crazy idea: let’s summon a demon. Not just any demon but a sexy devil chick that will do anything we want—even butt stuff. It’ll be easy. It’s not like it’s going […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Hammer Time
Published on :by Christopher Lesko I saw this asshole pushing a shopping cart filled with groceries down the road, about a mile away from the grocery store. I slowed my car and yelled out the window to him. “Hey! You can’t take that shopping cart home!” He ignored me, kept pushing along, […]
Christoph Paul Gets Serious with Max Booth III
Published on :Head over to CLASH MEDIA to see two grown men hurl words at one another like drunk jai alai players. Plus this professional dick photographer!
Podcastlandia!
Published on :Now and then my bizarro peers will chime in and let me know what’s happening out there in Podcastlandia. Today I hear tales of Nicholaus Patnaude at LOSING THE PLOT, discussing his books Guitar Wolf and First Aide Medicine, as well as his new psychedelic horror press, Psychedelic Horror Press […]
