The cult section of the literary world
There seems to be nothing short of acclaim for Wonderland Award-winning author Danger Slater’s most recent novel, Moonfellows, from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. There’s no science to be found in this book, but I didn’t order a science book. I ordered a bizarro tale about the true-ish history of the […]
The good people at Masterclass have brought Bizarro to their audience with the article Bizarro Fiction Genre: 15 Bizarro Fiction Authors. Within, they take a quick look at what bizarro fiction is, what the core elements are, and call out fifteen notable authors. The fabulous fifteen are as follows: Andre […]
Wierd Punk Books brings us Brendan Vidito’s next masterpiece scheduled for July 31st, 2022. The Wonderland-Award-winning author of Nightmares in Ecstasy unleashes nine new tales of apocalyptic body horror in Pornography for the End of the World. A young man is initiated into a cult that worships sickness and disease. Survivors of […]
Soft Places is a novella / graphic novel hybrid from the mind and hands of Betty Rocksteady. Recommended for mature audiences. Set to be unleashed on October 25, 2022. Ghoulish Books, from the good people at Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, are sweetening the deal for those ready to line up. […]
In 2014, after the release of his debut novel, celebrated writer and visionary publisher Kevin Sampsell switched gears and turned to a new creative obsession: making collage art. Initially influenced by the wild cutup language of William S. Burroughs, Sampsell soon discovered countless modern collagists that inspired him to take […]
A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’s effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed; a father explores a mysterious tower, […]
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated […]
Some wounds are too deep to ever heal. Two brothers from Michigan are reunited after the death of their father. They’ve never been close, but now they have to live together—and it gets more difficult when one discovers a strange creature, vomited from the body of a dead cat. A […]
Cock-A-Voodoo-Doo (and Other Twisted Love Stories) combines three novelettes from Peter Caffrey, author of The God of Wanking, Dog Food, and countless other titles. Caffrey blends absurdism, horror, and bizarro with dark humor and a modicum of filth. Cock-A-Voodoo-Doo Based on a true story! It happened in 1970, in an […]
When Ezra Wilson took the job as a census worker, he never imagined it would lead to a place like his latest assignment. From the moment he turns off the interstate and travels past the village limits, it becomes clear that Heritage isn’t just some quaint New England town. A […]
A man gets a ticket to a popular gameshow and is willing to risk life and limb to go home with the prize.A family tries to survive in a world where gravity is reversed and explosive balloon animals rule the streets. A new epidemic hits the world. People are spontaneously […]
Silver City is not the kind of place you’d want to be with no recollection of who or what you are. Especially if you happen to find yourself naked in a pig barn, with a fresh bullet hole in your forehead. Suffocated with overwhelming anger and seemingly superhuman strength, the […]
Curse of the Ratman is a novella of revenge, broken promises, and giant monsters by Jay Wilburn. Something terrible feeds in the Carolina woods. The Render family is going to pay for not keeping their promises to it. A storm is coming and an imaginable monster is coming with it. […]
You think you know the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you don’t. Hi Ziege is a man who thought he was wasting his life until he discovered that he could do so much more by joining the Discovery Corps from such a nameless place as La Charrette. Everything that Lewis […]
Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left and Right, remember nothing of their previous life as a singular body. Bound by necessity to carve out an existence on the fringes of society, the two brothers have very different ideas of […]
Drawing on the nostalgia of a nascent digital age and grappling with an eating disorder, indie cult author Elle Nash paints a realistic and poignant portrait of a teenager’s quest for self-identification on both sides of the computer screen. Using Livejournal entries, we meet our protagonist, in her messy transition […]
You have what every man, woman, and sentient rock wants: a job in publishing. And not just any job in publishing. A career working for the incredible and sometimes quite insane giant of publishing and paper-related war crimes, Madness Heart Press.First, congratulations. Second, you have before you an opportunity, an […]
Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation. Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, […]
On the same day news of the death of a grunge rock icon stuns a generation, young slacker Cole Watson has no goal in mind but to generate a little extra spending money by selling some tapes. That changes when he falls victim to a case of mistaken identity and […]
This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women’s writing, and the process of the “confessional.” Inextricably woven into these investigations of various types of grief is the […]
Bizarro fiction authors of all identities from ten different countries over 4 continents team up in this eclectic collection of flash, short fiction, and poems in order to raise funds for Australian wildlife. Some of them are funny or absurd, others experimental or heart-gripping, but most of them land fiercely […]
Established in 1613 by academic and occult pioneer, as well as failed vintner, Fenrick Oglebutt, through trans-chronological fallacies and a lust for knowledge, Nafallen University has become one of the foremost centers of learning on all matters from the mundane to the mythic. Located in beautifully desiccated Crisp, Texas, Nafallen […]
Koalita, Mon Amour It’s Gimp Week at Venus’ main attraction, Ecofallopialand, where human-impersonating animals and animal-impersonating humans alike can play together – so long as there is no “fraternizing” between species. Unfortunately for Sir, a human gimp, he becomes mesmerized by one of the park’s koalas. When he attempts to […]
A man. A dream. A drive. Ross E Lockhart, already the editor-in-chief of Word Horde, took the leap into a brick-and-mortar operation. In the middle of a pandemic. Because you don’t know what life will throw at you, so don’t delay your aspirations. So we’re jumping in, opening our retail […]
These woods are dark and full of monsters… In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Some say a family of inbred cannibals was responsible. A masked psychopath with a butcher’s knife is another popular […]
The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most renowned author of the time. What could Alcott say to Dickinson about abolitionism and women’s rights? What might Dickinson […]
The anticipated conclusion of the Death Metal Epic trilogy arrives with Book Three: Sinister Synthesizer. Death Metal Epic, Book One: The Inverted Katabasis (2013) and Death Metal Epic, Book Two: Goat Song Sacrifice (2017) follows David Fosberg playing guitar in Valhalla. But don’t worry: this is no jukebox hero saga […]
For 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Once described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and “one of the most original novelists working […]
From the disturbed mind of Shane McKenzie comes this extreme tale of the undead. What if eating the walking dead was the only way to ensure you don’t become one? If you ingest the meat of the dead, you can avoid that fate. But if you consume too much, it […]
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Scott Nicolay comes And at My Back I Always Hear, a new collection of eight tales of the macabre and the uncanny. “[Nicolay’s] perspective is always outsider-identified, entirely concerned with characters who refuse to settle, both literally and figuratively; his protagonists often hover on a […]
Child psychiatrist Hannah Cohen thought she could handle difficult cases. But medical school never prepared her for Elena. Nor the demon that’s possessing her. Hannah finds a way to rid Elena of her demon, but not without a price. Years later, Hannah has grown comfortable exorcising the demons of her patients. […]
OH, NO, PORN IS ILLEGAL! That’s right. Porn stars are criminals, pornographic websites are being systematically destroyed, and not even softcore or selfies are okay. And that’s just in our world. It’s literally destroying the magick city of sexual expression – PORN LAND! Phil and Zed, arriving through magickal means […]
56k dial-up. Ouija boards. Crushes. Internet Girlfriend explores the intersection of the internet, the occult, and sexuality. These poems mirror the abyss: divination, web camming, myth, instant messages, queerness, witchcraft—all in the name of trying to feel something. “In Valente’s debut book, Internet Girlfriend, we go on enchanting dates with […]
From CLASH Books, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s celebrated poetry collection We Are the Ones Possessed is out now. Listed at #1 on Lit Reactor’s 10 Dark Recommendations for National Poetry Month 2022. “The “little death” of orgasm isn’t so small after all in Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s We Are the Ones Possessed. […]
In a world where the letter “r” has yet to be discovered, a man named Han Solo and a man named You-Don’t-Have-To-Be-Lonely-At-Farmers-Only-Dot-Com must face something old and evil that lurks behind a locked door in the suburban basement-dungeon in which they are imprisoned… To impress a girl, a unicycle-riding, cask-of-amontillado-drinking […]
