The cult section of the literary world
Once released under the New Bizarro Authors Series, Steve Lowe’s body-swapping bizarro classic has returned, its comic absurdity stretched to new lengths. More Muscle, More Memory… Billy Gillespie wakes up one morning to discover his junk is gone. In its place is his wife’s junk. Billy is now Tina, and […]
“I’ve had a wonderful time, really the best. Do you want to come inside? It’s still early. I’d love to tell you a story. But first, let me take off my face…” Now That We’re Alone 11 short stories from Nicholas Day, celebrating the weird, wicked, and wonderful monsters hiding […]
Are you hungry for something different? Something weird? Horrific? Funny? Uncomfortable? Surreal? Try a slice. A man opens his door to a most unusual salesman, whose wares are not quite what they seem… A writer on a retreat discovers a talking insect, and a tree bearing fruit that looks just like […]
The beautiful thing about life is that it isn’t perfect. Evan Lansing manages to eke out a living as a photographer, capturing the beauty of severely marred and deformed people. He’s content with his meager existence but his longtime girlfriend, Naomi, is looking for more out of life . . […]
YOU’RE ALONE WHEN YOU’RE IN HELL BECAUSE IT’S EVERYONE ELSE’S HEAVEN. DONNIE DARKO meets AMERICAN GODS in LIVE ON NO EVIL, a spiritual horror novel about aliens, demons, and an extra-dimensional god entity named Sahasa that has come to earth to provide human beings with a third option between heaven […]
For the next month, as part of John Skipp’s HOPE IN HELL campaign, he’s offering the Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film (vol. 1) as a stand-alone perk on the film’s IndieGoGo page! The book was written by Skipp and Heather Drain, with cover and interiors by Paula Rozelle Hanback. It only costs $15 […]
Behold the latest sexual absurdity from Mandy de Sandra… Literary novelist Colin Winnette is ready to let loose after manning the McSweeney’s booth at the Miami Bookfair. Colin drives down to America’s party and paradise spot–Key West, but something strange has washed upon the shore. Colin encounters a slew of […]
From the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick III, award-winning author of Quicksand House and Cuddly Holocaust, comes a “kaiju” tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack. The creature was finally dead. After months of fighting it, trying desperately to stop it as it rampaged across the American […]
With so many weird stories on the market, it’s sometimes hard to keep up with all the books you should be buying. To exacerbate the problem, here’s three more from Rooster Republic Press! Sitting across from you on the bus, passing by you in aisle 7, stopping to stare you […]
To entertain its new neighbors, a kind puppet puts Chicken McNuggets into tiny coffins and buries them in its yard. A famous pest control man is diagnosed with the “In the Air Tonight” disease, an incurable sickness that slowly turns its sufferers into the rapist referenced in Phil Collins’ hit […]
The latest from Worde Horde has arrived, and it comes complete with its own book trailer! Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come out of the UK, awakens to find his hotel snowed in, his band mates evacuated, and monsters roaming […]
Deadite Press presents the latest abomination from the legendary Edward Lee! From the master of extreme horror, Edward Lee, author of over fifty books that have redefined the boundaries of depravity in fiction, comes a novel that brings together all of his most extreme characters into one epic, gut-wrenching masterpiece […]
From Justin Grimbol and Atlatl Press comes a book of poetry about Upstate New York and marriage: Mud Season. Next, Moses Guttchenridder has several problems. His business, Macramania, is going under. His lovelife is in the toilet. Oh, and he has been forced into helping a murderous garden gnome take […]
From Rooster Republic Press and John Wayne Comunale comes the tale of a modern-day legend in the making, JOHN WAYNE LIED TO YOU. It’s half autobiography, half creative nonfiction, and an extra half of good old fashioned lies, and will be available for purchase soon. Keep an eye out! In […]
“It’s like Jaws but with Bigfoot” – Shane McKenzie, author of Muerte Con Carne Crushed heads, entrails, and piles of body parts are littering the woods surrounding the quaint English vacation town of Hambleton. A hungry cryptid is on the loose and is biting and tearing to pieces whoever and […]
After six years and more than fifty authors, the Unholy Trinity is complete. This third installment in the DOA series offers thirty stories from the originators of splatterpunk as well as the newest voices in extreme horror. You’ll laugh…you’ll cry…you’ll vomit. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Bentley Little, Jack […]
Flesh magic, ’80s hardcore, immortal aliens. Chaotic detectives and black-gloved killers. Nine stories by the author of Long Lost Dog Of It. “Existentialist horror that’s never bound to form.” —COMPLEX Get it at Amazon!
A collection of flash fiction, author illustrations, and manipulated images. Note: If you are a really fast reader, then you’ll probably finish reading this book in six minutes and sixty six seconds. Or if you are a really slow reader, then you’ll probably finish reading this book in six years […]
Presenting the latest from Eraserhead Press and Kirsten Alene: MOON SNAKE! My mother always said, “Nothing as sad as a moth that thinks it’s found the moon in a candle flame.” And that is who I am, or who I am meant to have been. I whisper under my breath, […]
Bathos! Crippling ennui! Mind-numbing drudgery! Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is so depressed he’s on the brink of suicide. Brad hasn’t really given much thought […]
Available on Amazon: the latest from Jordan Krall! Find yourself on a starship as it lumbers across the desert. Find yourself on a train looking out at the stars, the earth a blue marble in the infinite black abyss behind you. Find yourself overdosing on narcotics in a bathtub at […]
Bizarro artist Alan M. Clark has released another book in his Jack the Ripper Victim series. It’s available at Amazon. This novel is part of the Jack the Ripper Victims Series. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone story. Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th […]
Author and interior decorator David W. Barbee compiled some toys and his own inner turmoil to create a trailer for his latest book, Bacon Fried Bastard. Enjoy!
Carlton Mellick III, the godfather of bizarro fiction, is back with a tribute to the unintentionally terrifying children’s commercials of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Only Petey remembers the Fruit Fun cereal commercials of the 1980s. He remembers how warped and disturbing they were. He remembers the lumpy-shaped cartoon children sitting […]
Vince Kramer’s latest book, released through Thicke & Vaney Books, is here! In this hilarious novel six heroes from six different epochs of earth’s history (and an alien tossed in to add a little alienness) battle Space ISIS for control of a beloved spaceship (and the fate of every living […]
Coming this August from Soho Press and Brian Allen Carr, a novel of the doom of drinking your own shadow.
Newly released from Eraserhead Press and available from Amazon, it’s… EMBRY: HARDBOILED A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who’s wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Life’s tough for an “embry.” Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, […]
New from Bradley Sands and Rooster Republic Press… “This reads like what might happen if Freud and the Joker collaborated on a rewrite of Blake Butler’s There Is No Year. A weird and swerving book that nonetheless says a lot about the hidden dynamics of families.” – Brian Evenson, author […]
Mystery Meat, that modern underground horror comic about the last American taboo (our food), is now available on Comixology. This way you can witness Cody Goodfellow and Mike Dubisch’s vision of fast food fuckery without getting your fingers greasy and for a very good price. Check it out here.
When a deviant mind like Jeremy Robert Johnson is featured in Publishers Weekly, you know the world’s getting weirder. Huge congratulations to JRJ. Time for every weirdo (and some of the normals, too) to get excited for Entropy in Bloom, due to drop in April!
The latest Eraserhead Press release has dropped and is available on Amazon! S.T. Cartledge presents: The Orphanarium. Here is us. We are here in the Orphanarium. Think: a city in a massive box, vacuum-sealed tight. No one is allowed outside. Here, people are born out of the air or made […]
There have been several Bizarro Starter Kits released through Eraserhead Press, serving as a regular sample platter of the different voices telling weird tales in the bizarro scene. Until now, they’ve all been in English, but our Spanish speaking friends are about to get a surprise… Orciny Press presents BIENVENIDOS […]
Courtesy of Rooster Republic Press comes BAD HOTEL… The whole world is haunted. Ghosts and monsters are everywhere and it’s actually kind of irritating. So, two friends take it upon themselves to get rid of the ghosts and set the world right again, even though they have no clue what […]
“Dope Tits is the work of a puerile, reverted, dangerous and insidious man… I laughed… pretty much the entire time.” Laura Lee Bahr, author of LONG-FORM RELIGIOUS PORN and HAUNT “If you’re looking for an absurdist tour of the vast and dangerous criminal underworld of Fremont, Ohio or a ridiculously […]
Hello future residents! Welcome to Charge Land. We’re excited to have you here and hope you join us permanently, but first, watch this orientation video to find out all you need to know about our fine land. Also, don’t forget to pick up your official handbook. It is mandatory…
