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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 […]
Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL UNAMERICA by Cody GoodfellowIMPOSSIBLE JAMES by Danger SlaterGIRL LIKE A BOMB by Autumn ChristianMOUSE TRAP by Carlton Mellick IIITHE DRIVE-THRU CREMATORIUM by Jon Bassoff COLLECTION TO WALLOW IN […]
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 2020 awards, for books published in 2019, will be presented online. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins […]
After becoming the suspect in the death of a young woman, Deputy Sam Hardy is reassigned to the town of Angels and Hope, which, within its borders, holds the once magnificent amusement park, Captain Clive’s Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The park is essentially empty […]
Little Benny isn’t very good at taking tests. It’s not that he’s a stupid kid or doesn’t pay attention in class. It’s just that he’s absolutely terrified of failure. It doesn’t matter how hard he studies. He gets so nervous that he freezes up and his mind goes blank, rarely […]
Poetry has long been the language of rage. The disquiet ghosts of our own discomfort and paralyzing fear rising up in sometimes-broken verse to express itself in bellowed whispers. Splatterpunk nominee Susan Snyder’s debut chapbook of poetry ‘Broken Nails’ is no exception to this, each poem overflowing with the emotional […]
A beat novel for the Instagram generation, Life of the Party will leave you with a hangover and a VIP stamp on your heart. This dark comedy dives into the underbelly of Milanese fashion and nightlife, through the eyes of Mia, a young expat. She came to Milan to escape […]
BE WARNED: this book has so much fucking death in it it’s unbelievable! There’s a whole truckload of death! There’s more death in this book than ten 9/11s combined! You know the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark where all the Nazis’ faces melt off? It’s like that but for an entire […]
After the death of his wife, Ray Parker decides to get involved with the local “cuddle party” community in order to once again feel the closeness of another human being. Although he’s sure it will be a strange and awkward experience, he’s determined to give anything a try if it […]
A man with no name and no memory finds himself on board a train of infinite length, filled with corpses. All of the corpses are clones of himself, dead versions of him, and no two are exactly the same. They have different haircuts, or beards dyed wild colors; some have […]
The debut short story collection from Joshua Chaplinsky, author of Kanye West–Reanimator. Thirteen weird pieces of literary genre fiction. Singularities, ciphers, and reappearing limbs. Alien messiahs and murderous medieval hydrocephalics. A dark collection that twists dreams into nightmares in an attempt to find a whisper of truth. Get your copy at Amazon
It’s hard not to admire Amy Vaughn’s drive. She exploded onto the bizarro scene from out of nowhere and that was just one of the six million items on her to-do list this morning. And when she’s not storming the business world with company take-overs and circumnavigating the globe with […]
Margot and Blanko live on the Isle of Flowers, blessed by the rose gold light of the cherry blossom sun. In the season of the Cold, they build bonfires on the beach to ward off the malicious shape-shifting sea creatures known as tourists from the island. Each year their home […]
Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: BEST NOVEL All Hail The House Gods by Andrew James Stone He Digs a Hole by Danger Slater The Writhing Skies by Betty Rocksteady Stacking Doll by Carlton Mellick III Coyote Songs by Gabino […]
So I found out the other day that Andrew J. Stone teaches bizarro fiction. Like, in a real school, to a living class, of actual breathing students, with impressionable minds. While we’re all sat at home in our soiled underwear, guzzling beer bongs and endlessly scrolling through Twitter, he’s out […]
Sam Richard is the kind of guy who should probably be given superpowers. Maybe he already has superpowers but if not, I think we ought to sort the guy out. He’s kind and sweet and weird and although I haven’t known him for long, I can tell you that he […]
When approaching Douglas Hackle to be interviewed, I had to check-in for psych eval to make sure I was mentally tough enough to handle the sluice of imagination juice I was about to open my mouth for. After the psych eval was over, the Bizarro Central doctors patted me on […]
Way back when the CIA injected acid right into the eyeballs of mental patients in the name of science. They really didn’t know what the hell was going to happen, least of all that each of the patients would claim to see the same rainbow-coloured spectre known as IRA RAT. […]
Today we get the very special privilege of talking to not only the Editor-In-Cheef of BizarroCentral.Com, not only one of the great bizarro authors of our time, not only the Grandmaster Toad-Licker himself, but the man who was just this morning crowned THE SEXIEST MAN IN FRANCE 2019. And he’s […]
Point your guzzler to the sky, howl at the moon, and say his name thrice. That’s how one summons the spooky zinester from New York, Ben Fitts. Either that or slide into his DM’s, all slick-like. Ben might look sanitary from a safe distance, but believe me, he’s absolutely filthy. […]
From Deep Desires Press comes this debut collection from Kitty Knish. If you’re looking for the best author of Jewish erotica, your prayers have been answered. Equal parts Kosher and raunchy, Knish invites you to come explore sex and love the oy vey way. “Verdict: Thong of Thongs: 69 Sexy […]
The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and Best Bizarro Collection of 2018. Below is a list of all eligible titles. Please send your […]
I’d recommend reading today’s interview with your face pressed right up against the screen. Push so hard your nose cracks the glass and your pupils fill the gaps between the pixels and you can taste the internet, because when Mr McMillen is involved, you do NOT want to miss a […]
I owe a LOT to Mr Frank. Have you ever seen that movie, The Snowman? Not the Michael Fassbender one. The animated one. The one where the snowman grab’s that kid’s hand and they fly away and the snowman shows the kid all this wonderful stuff. Mr Frank is my […]
By: Douglas Hackle The ’70 Plymouth Barracuda was already doing a steady 95 MPH down I-90, causing the ’cuda’s shotgun-riding passenger—a lamplighter by trade—to grip the dashboard with a white-knuckled hand, dig his shoes into the floor, and press his back hard into his seat, his forehead slick with terror-sweat. […]
When God said unto the world, ‘Let there be light,’ even he couldn’t have expected the human miracle that is Jon Bassoff to be born into the world. In fact, I have it on good authority that God himself is still rubbing his eyes, blinking repeatedly, amazed at his own […]
By: John Bruni The end. _____ John Bruni is the author of BLOOD, DONG OF FRANKENSTEIN and POOR BASTARDS AND RICH FUCKS. He lives in Elmhurst, IL, where he spends waaaaaaaay too much time thinking about weird shit for a guy who doesn’t smoke weed.
Once upon a time, Duncan Bradshaw was your standard teenage boy, but whilst on a school trip to the local science lab museum, he was bitten by a radioactive lateral thinker. There was an explosion and some stomach cramps and a dead uncle but now, with all the powers of […]
Michael Allen Rose appeared to me in a dream last night. Naked? Absolutely! He popped his eyeballs out of his head and suggested we trade but I was like, “but I like my eyes, thanks,” and he proceeded to howl at me with such a punishingly sweet vibrato that I […]
WTFridays will bring you the most bizarre moments from a variety of bizarro books, the moments that make you look up from the page and say, “WTF?” So dig into this week’s offering, provided, for your enjoyment, completely without context. _____ Puppy had driven into the little town of Monroe […]
Gerald Dean Rice is an enigma. Some say he is a demonic creature from another dimension that climbed out of a birthday cake. “Surprise!” he said, before melting the birthday girl, friends, and parents, with his famous exploding striptease. Some say he’s more than that, a dream that thought it […]
by Luke Kondor You may have seen one of Ben Arzate’s thorough book reviews on CulturedVultures.com and taken him for some kind of… book reviewer. But he’s much, much more than that. This guy is a master reviewer! He reviews his own pants at the end of each night — […]
Thong of Thongs is the lovely Kitty Knish’s debut collection of 69 sexy Jewish stories, showcasing Jewish humor at its finest. Equal parts kosher and dirty, romantic and raunchy fun. Adam, Eve and the trouser snake; streaking at a kibbutz; Freud’s introduction to submission; these are only a few of […]
by Luke Kondor Legend has it that if you go to the English coastline with a picnic basket, take out a fresh pot of tea, maybe some new bizarro books, and a fresh stack of YouTube channels, a wild Madeleine Swann might just appear. She might just float down to […]
by Luke Kondor Welcome back to How I Weird, the series of where we find bizarro authors, strip em down, inspect their junk, compare them with our own. That’s some interesting junk! So I met Leigham Shardlow in person a couple of weeks ago. He picked me up by the […]
