The cult section of the literary world
After being caught in bed with a headless pageant winner, Abraham Lincoln (no relation) is stripped of his duties as the mayor of Gyre, the harbor-like town where garbage clings to its spiraling shores. The townsfolk stand their grounds of disrespectful rage over their former mayor and factions of humans, […]
The stories you’ll find at The Sharp End of the Rainbow will transport you to a dystopian wonderland full of bizarre characters who engage in even more bizarre antics. These stories will make you laugh, cry, and gag-but more importantly, they show humanity in the face of the truly absurd, […]
In the spirit of the shot-on-video horror of the 80s, Meat Photo is a transgressive, absurd horror comedy and the love child of Andersen Prunty and C.V. Hunt. Meat photos are the hottest trend. Everyone has one or is willing to do anything to get one. It’s all anyone can […]
From Grindhouse Press comes Andersen Prunty’s newest book. Dreaditation is a grotesquely absurd horror comedy exploring the limits of excess, deprivation, hack pop philosophy, belief, and tolerance. Here’s the rundown… Who will become enlightened and what will be left of them? Scott Champion knows the meaning of life. And his […]
New from Grindhouse Press is Bryan Smith’s follow-up to The Unseen, we once again follow Allison Cook and her continued unraveling. Six months after losing everything that once mattered to her, Allison Cook’s life is mired in a grim downward spiral. The otherworldly entity known only as The Visitor still […]
Winner of the Wonderland Award for Best Collection 2019, comes a rerelease of To Wallow in Ash and Other Sorrows by Sam Richard from Weirdpunk Books. It is a bleak and unflinching look at widowhood through the lens of horror fiction. Peep at this shiny new cover: Written in the […]
Follow Eber and his son Peleg as they help an angel named Zephon recover two missing angels who have been captured by the tyrannical King Nimrod. On their journey to the Tower, they confront Mesopotamian mechas, including Inanna, goddess of war and love, and Nergal, god of the underworld. Now […]
From the editors of Lost Signals and Lost Films comes the final installment in Perpetual Motion Machine’s technological horror trilogy. Nineteen authors in the genre team up to deliver a collection of spooky delights. In Lost Contact, stalkers, hackers, grieving families, social misfits, abandoned children, and other unhinged characters explore […]
Once again the pandemic has preempted the return of Bizarro Con. However, a few intrepid Bizarros could not be held back from a November pilgrimage to McMenamins Edgefield outside Portland, Oregon. Affectionately and unofficially dubbed “Bizarro Con Jr” and “Diet Bizarro Con,” this small gathering held the Wonderland Awards Ceremony, […]
Angela has everything she thought she ever wanted—a successful husband, a lavish house, and a bottomless fortune. But the sight of a strange man in a grocery store one night reawakens her dormant sexuality and soon Angela embarks on a dangerous descent into the world of underground pornography and back-alley […]
In five unique and bizarre tales Katy Michelle Quinn (Girl in the Walls), Charles Austin Muir (Slippery When Metastasized), Jo Quenell (The Mud Ballad), Brendan Vidito (Nightmares in Ecstasy), and Sam Richard (Sabbath of the Fox-Devils) each bring you their own disturbing vision of what lurks in the darkness of […]
Banished to his grandparent’s farm for the summer, Casey soon runs afoul of the Bimiangus: a government experiment gone wrong turned bloodthirsty, moordurous bull. Casey knew there was something wrong with the Bimiangus the moment he laid eyes on it. He just didn’t know how wrong until the cows started […]
We all know horror. It’s in our face every day. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away. In this intensely personal collection of short stories, screenplays, and essays, horror legend John Skipp walks you through the light and the dark with […]
With his “highly visual and cinematic worldbuilding” (Booklife by Publishers Weekly), Brian Asman spins a horrifying and imaginative tale of an ordinary family and their extraordinary new house… Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the rapidly-growing Southwestern city of Jackson […]
It’s Halloween night in 1987. The era of fast cars, big hair, and glam metal is in full swing. A group of young friends push their appetite for destruction to the limit as they race along dark and dangerous back roads in search of a rumored epic spook night beer […]
Sex. Death. Depression. Ghosts. Teeth. Love. Hate. Youth. Family. Drugs. Art. Culture. Memories. Fantasies. Now let it burn. The reason Young Stepdad is your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper is because he’s the fucking realest. Honest, bittersweet, fucked-up, fucking funny, pilled-up, lonely, loving, bent at all the wrong angles…real. This is […]
Since 1985, the Printers Row neighborhood in Chicago hosts a literary festival each June. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the area became the Midwest hub of the printing industry with historically significant buildings designed by legendary architects. Today, it continues to be a draw for fans of Chicago […]
Libbie Milligan is stuck. She works a dead-end job at a motel, tends to her agoraphobic mother, and tries not to think about her sister’s murder from sixteen years ago. When a mysterious woman shows up to work at the motel, she befriends Libbie and turns her world upside down. […]
After years of being a guinea pig for a mysterious pharmaceutical company, Wilson Brown wakes up with three women’s breasts on his body. In search of a cure, he travels from Los Angeles to a lost city in the middle of the desert.There he will encounter planes that cannot fly, […]
The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. BizarroCon will not be held this year due to Covid-19, but the 2021 awards, for books published in 2020, will be presented. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now […]
Ali Seay’s new work, To Offer Her Pleasure published by Weird Punk Books hit the shelves. Writer of horrory things, she’s the author of Go Down Hard (Grindhouse Press), and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her fiction runs the gamut from bondage to zombies to humor. […]
The Next Time You See Me I’ll Probably Be Dead is a collection of short stories by author C.V. Hunt. A cursed mailbox, something from the depths of the ocean, a dating app encounter gone very wrong, an urban legend come to life, a haunted attraction that isn’t what it […]
Two titans of modern horror-Brian Keene and Bryan Smith-team up for the terrifying crossover sequel to both Keene’s URBAN GOTHIC and Smith’s THE FREAKSHOW. The Westgate Galleria Mall was once a sprawling, shining monument to American consumerism and suburban growth. Now, it is a crumbling reminder of how both have […]
Welcome to Grub Town, the most corrupt city in America. A place where gutter punk mermaids swim in sewage-filled canals, fairy prostitutes hang in birdcages on every street corner, and yakuza elves run everything behind the scenes. Eliot is the most beautiful fairy in all of the city with his […]
Welcome to Cerealand! A place where adults can relive their childhood desires while indulging in their most perverted fantasies! Our rides are x-rated, our cereal is alcoholic and our mascots aren’t just people in suits – they are genetically mutated and reshaped into your favorite cereal mascots! Isn’t that amazing!? […]
Leaving the city was not Vernon’s choice. Neither was moving into an old house in a bumpkin-run town in the Cascadian forest, where the shadows move and the stairs make a sound like dying crows. It’s a relief when Vernon discovers a space inside the walls of his bedroom, a […]
A campy horror novel of regret, synchronously morphing into a monstrous, unexpected outcome. High school adolescence can be tough sometimes, especially if you’re hiding inside a snail shell refusing to come out, shelling out the world around you even your best friend. Snailbutter is a Bizarro punch of imagination packed […]
From best-selling, award-winning horror writer Brian Keene comes a vicious new novella With Teeth. For a group of middle-aged friends, the trip into the forest was supposed to be simple. All they had to do was find a place to set up their criminal enterprise, and all of their financial […]
Listen… The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wounded animals. The gasps of bleeding, dying men. The slow, deep breathing of terrible things–trolls, giants, draugr–waiting in the darkness. The wolf’s wind howling, stalking like death itself. The carrion-crows, avaricious and impatient, circling the […]
Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes is a collection of four novellas that explore the madness of murder through the warped lenses of urban noir, science fiction, horror, and experimental fantasy. In Decay in Amber, a convicted rapist and murderer wakes up one morning to discover he is […]
When the movie starts, the horror becomes real. The TV ads promised a festival of cheap and bloody fright films, all of them thinly disguised knockoffs of well-known movies with much better pedigrees. One film features a family of chainsaw maniacs, another a zombie uprising. In yet another, a cult […]
It’s time for Jesus to attempt his second coming, but linear time progression doesn’t apply to extra-spatial deities, so he ends up coming “again” long before the first time – the Jurassic period. Once he arrives, expecting to see a bunch of human beings who’ve been waiting for him for […]
There’s a monster on the loose. All across the Ohio River Valley women are going missing. Jacob Hunter Goodman’s childhood is filled with trauma. When he reaches adulthood, God calls on Jacob and he answers with a fervor unlike anyone before him. Jacob is compelled to make strange religious sculptures […]
SHOULD YOUR CARCASS REANIMATE, I’LL SLIT ITS THROAT AGAIN. Lost Letters to a Lover’s Carcass is an infected wound where puss seeps out between sutures. As a “spiritual sequel” to Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower, this collection is partly blind pining for dead, false love once given by a monster that […]
Bizarro Con just announced the Wonderland Award Winners for books published in 2019. Ordinarily, these would be presented in the ballroom at McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, Oregon. Thanks to COVID-19 the convention was cancelled and our festivities were moved online. As reported on BizarroCon.com, here are your picks for excellence in […]
