by Gabino Iglesias I met Mark Rapacz the same way I’ve met a bunch of cool people: he had a book out there I wanted to review. City Kaiju turned out to be a lot of fun and I was wondering what else Mark could be cooking. A few months later, the […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Brian Alan Ellis
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Say what you like about Facebook, but it’s a great place to meet awesome people. One day a book popped up on my feed. The title caught my eye: The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow. It was written by a guy named Brian Alan […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Constance Ann Fitzgerald
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Constance Ann Fitzgerald is the author of Trashland a Go-Go and editor of this site you’re reading. However, the coolest thing she has going right now, besides her hair, some new glasses, and the fact that she just moved to Portland to take care of business, is […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Adam Cesare
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Something I’ve learned after becoming part of the horror and bizarre communities is that very often the weirdest, darkest, goriest, nastiest, most horrific fiction comes from individuals who are incredibly nice. A perfect example of that is Adam Cesare. To be honest, Adam is so damn nice […]
Holiday Gift Guide Part 1: The NBAS
Published on :Garrett Cook Seasons greetings to all. And a Happy Holidays. And…. It seems the holidays are upon us. Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Black Friday, Hawkman’s birthday, Take Your Lion to Work Day…. At any rate, the gift giving holidays are upon us. We in the Bizarro community know that this is the […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Chris Kelso
Published on :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, […]
Blinging Out the Dead: An Interview With Paul Koudounaris
Published on :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 […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: A Message from ZBags
Published on :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: […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Cody Goodfellow
Published on :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. […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Shane Cartledge
Published on :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 […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Kirk Jones
Published on :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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fear and Loathing in Portland: An Unexpurgated Interview with Lucius Shepard
Published on :Lucius Shepard died on March 18th. With deep respect and gratitude, we are reprinting this recent interview with him conducted by friend and mentee, Edward Morris that appeared in Issue #11 of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction published last December. We asked Morris for a few words by way of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ball Busting Interview with Lazar Jones, Smut Peddler
Published on :by G. Arthur Brown Lazar Jones. Lazar Jones. LAZAR JONES! We’ve all heard the buzz, but most of us are probably thinking that everyone is talking about this guy: Turns out THIS IS NOT LAZAR JONES. But THIS is: Family resemblance? A home DNA test will be the judge. Recently […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Tiffany Scandal and Michael Kazepis
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Check it out, Show Me Your Shelves is featuring a couple for the first time! You know you like it. Tiffany Scandal is part of this year’s NBAS and Michael Kazepis’ debut novel is coming soon from Broken River Books. This is one talented couple. They also […]
Unearthly Sounds Volume 7: Seven Deadly Questions with The Slow Poisoner
Published on :by J.W. Wargo “The Slow Poisoner (alias Andrew Goldfarb) is a one-man surrealistic rock and roll band who hails from San Francisco and has been playing the devil’s music to audiences across America since 1996.” –The Slow Poisoner Website I’ve had a fondness for multi-instrumentalists and one-man bands most of […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Michael J. Seidlinger
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias I’ve been lucky enough to meet outstanding people who are as obssesed with books as I am. Author/editor/Publisher/designer/madman Michael J Seidlinger is one of them. Seidlinger lives for books and talking literature with him is a pleasure, just like reading his work. I’ve sent him books and […]
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 […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Michael Allen Rose
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias Who are you and what role do books play in your life? I am Michael Allen Rose, author, musician, and performance artist. I also make a mean baked Mac N’ Cheese. Books have been some of my best friends and means of seeing new worlds and perspectives […]
Unearthly Sounds Volume 6: Interview with Flood Damage
Published on :By J. W. Wargo “Industrial rock with a black sense of humor, burlesque and machine rock fusion, experiments in sound and fury.” –Flood Damage Facebook Page (This edition of Unearthly Sounds highlights a writer from within the Bizarro Community who also happens to be a kick-ass noisemaker, Michael Allen Rose. […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Justin Grimbol
Published on :by Gabino Iglesias This column is called Show me your shelves, but here at Bizarro Central, we do things differently. This week, we feature an author who agreed to show us his shelves and didn’t have any: Justin Grimbol. If you know Grimboli, you know this somehow makes perfect sense. […]
Show Me Your Shelves: Ross E. Lockhart
Published on :By Gabino Iglesias I never judge people by their looks; I judge them by their books. I love talking books and often wonder what the bookshelves of authors, editors, publishers, reviewers, and fellow book addicts look like. This is my attempt to satisfy my curiosity and share those bookshelves with […]
