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.
How I Weird: Duncan Bradshaw
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: Michael Allen Rose
Published on :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 […]
WTFriday: Nathan Carson
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: Gerald Dean Rice
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: Ben Arzate
Published on :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 — […]
Available for Pre-Order: Thong of Thongs
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: Madeleine Swann
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: Leigham Shardlow
Published on :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 […]
How I Weird: ST Cartledge
Published on :by Luke Kondor S.T. Cartledge is a real boy! Sort of. He was born as a computer game sprite and after years of being controlled by unseen masters, he broke free, started a war on humanity, That lasted for a while but like any war… it got really tiring. So […]
How I Weird: Danger Slater
Published on :by Luke Kondor Danger Slater is a lovely chap. He’s the kind of guy you can trust with your brain with. He’ll take your brain out on a date. Sure. He’ll wear a suit and bring flowers and will bring it back by the scheduled curfew. Okay. But look what’s […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Laser House on the Prairie
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central takes a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “David W Barbee is a genre of one, much like Joe R. Lansdale, Weston Ochse, and Elmore Leonard. Possessing a strong, unique voice that blends the best elements of bizarro, horror, action, and humor, […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Scum of the Earth
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central takes a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… THEY CAME TO RAID… THEY STAYED TO GET LAID! For centuries, alien drug-runners plundered the Earth, harvesting organs and freebasing fear. Few drugs could match the potency of humanity’s dysfunctional two-stroke brains, so the […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Impossible James
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central takes a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… My father was dying. There was no hope. Then he took a screwdriver to the brain. Got pregnant. And found the cure for death. Impossible? That’s my dad. IMPOSSIBLE JAMES “Danger Slater is fearless […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Everybody Lies in Hell
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summe… “In Everybody Lies in Hell Mike Stone’s eternal damnation is a private detective’s office in a re-imagined Brooklyn. In Hell, the beautiful woman with a case opens a literal Pandora’s Box, and Stone is […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Cannibal Nuns from Outer Space
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… The summer blockbuster book! Probably. With an encyclopaedic knowledge of cake, and exclusive access to the church’s stockpile of holy weapons, the Order of the Crimson Rosary are on the frontline in the eternal […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: The Drive-Thru Crematorium
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “Bassoff confronts directly the traumatic stress disorder of our world today and tears off its mask, even if the face must follow.” – New York Magazine “Toss Kafka, David Lynch, and a pinch of […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: One for the Road
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “A road trip through Hell in the spirit of Skipp & Spector’s The Scream and Grady Hendrix’s We Sold Our Souls. I loved it!” –Brian Keene, author of The Rising “A gritty and authentic rampage […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: The Story of the Y
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “The Story of the Y… is the love child of Carlos Fuentes and Hunter S. Thompson, covered in blood and desert dust, screaming outside a Mexican restaurant. Listen to it.” – Gabino Iglesias, Author of […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central takes a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… They’ve come from all over the world for a three-day celebration of peace, music, and groovy vibes. Then a mystery drug sickens thousands and the dead begin to rise in Dirty Rotten Hippies, the […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “Sometimes you stop by the convenience store for a slushy and the world just goes straight to hell, and takes you along with it. I haven’t had this much fun watching terrible stuff happen in […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Unamerica
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “Cody Goodfellow knows how to chill your blood. . .” —STEPHEN KING, author of It and The Dark Half #thisisunamerica NEVER WORK, NEVER DIE Buried half a mile beneath the desert sands of the US-Mexico border, exists […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Lakehouse Infernal
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “Lakehouse Infernal is the coolest, ball-bustingest, most outrageous, and most ENTERTAINING horror novel you’re likely to find in a long time.” – Edward Lee author of City Infernal Lake Misquamicus was an unremarkable lake in […]
Bizarro Summer Reading: Mouse Trap
Published on :Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers […]
Last Chance Books: Eraserhead Press
Published on :According to a release on the Eraserhead Press website, the following books are going out of print. Be sure to pick up your copy before these paperback editions sell out! The Mondo Vixen Massacre by Jamie GrefeElephant Vice by Chris MeekingsRainbows Suck by Madeleine SwannHer Fingers by Tamara RomeroCarnageland by […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Mandrake Stew
Published on :by: D.J. Tyrer People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, they say. But, what if you live in a house of lint and wool: should you throw stones then? Serennessa lived in a house of lint and wool on the edge of the village, not far from the […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Six Days and Endless Nights
Published on :by: S.E. Casey It was during the limbo contest that I knew something was horribly wrong. I wasn’t being ageist in noting the winner was a sixty year old man. As the captain of the cruise ship, he certainly had a lifetime of practice. But when the bar was lowered […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Decomposing Isn’t Easy
Published on :by: Ben Fitts Mike spotted the water cube first, which meant that it was his to jump in. The water cube slithered across the desert towards us where we waited in nothing but our swim trunks, the hot sand stinging the bottoms of our feet. It looked like a big […]
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2018
Published on :Jeff Burk is the author of several bizarro books, the host of the Jeff Attacks Podcast, and watcher of too many movies. It’s that time again – my favorite movies of 2018! Holy shit was 2018 a fucking crazy year. If you follow the news and world events you know that 2018 was […]
Flash Fiction Friday: In My Younger and More Vulnerable Years, My Father Used to Take Me to the Strip Club and Make Me Hold Down Drunks While He Rolled Them for Empty TUMS Travel Containers and Raspberry Fruit Roll-Ups
Published on :by: David S. Atkinson I spent the better part of the afternoon packaging up my excreta in cardboard boxes and clear packing tape again. It’s time consuming, but there isn’t a whole lot of choice. Given my particular situation, I have to dispose of it through the mail. A piece […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Iceberg
Published on :by: JP Vallières We couldn’t get the iceberg to melt no matter how hard we tried: blow torch, bonfire, hairdryer, rubbing our butts back and forth to the song, That’s the Way (I Like It). I’m not into melting things usually, but there were some important items encased in that […]
Flash Fiction Friday: The Drone Infant
Published on :by: Zoltán Komor My wife wants a baby, but I’d prefer a remote control drone with HD Wi-Fi camera, so I figure out an intermediate solution: I’ll knock up my wife, let her give birth to the child, and after a couple of weeks, when she gets bored with this […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Y2K
Published on :by: Sean Noah Noah Y2K came and went and pretty much everyone could agree that the world had ended, but nobody could figure out exactly how. Just days before, everything had seemed so certain: all the computers wouldn’t be able to change the dates correctly and they’d break down and […]
Wonderland Book Awards – Final Ballot 2018
Published on :Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: BEST NOVEL The Unyielding by Gary J. Shipley In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson Itzá by Rios de la Luz The Big Meat by Carlton Mellick III Sip […]
Wonderland Book Award Preliminary Voting Begins Now
Published on :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 2017. Please send your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes in the […]