by Brian Auspice Hamstring lies in a hospital bed. Tubes feed out of his right arm into a large 1970’s mainframe computer. He watches his blood slowly get sucked through the plastic. The computer beeps. A nurse walks in. She places a stereo on a nearby table. “The doctor will […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Animals Inspired by Satan!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity It’s Devil’s Night Bizarros! Time to play some pranks, set fire to shit, and hail Satan! You can even name your cat, dog, or kid, after a demon. Speaking of animals, here are 6 animals who surely came from the depths of hell or were at least named after The […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Cursed Movies, Creepy Gifs, and Funeral Ideas
Published on :by Tracy Vanity 3 Days Until Halloween! Did you know that in the film, The Exorcist, the entire set of the MacNeil residence caught on fire except for Reagan’s room? A priest was brought in several times to bless the set but weird shit kept happening. Linda Blair’s harness kept breaking so […]
Blinging Out the Dead: An Interview With Paul Koudounaris
Published on :by Tracy Vanity (All photos courtesy of Paul Koudounaris) 3 more days until Halloween! Paul Koudounaris is paranormal catnip. Unexplained and weird phenomena gravitate towards him like death moths to a preternatural flame. He specializes in finding the most unique shrines to the dead which also sometimes end up finding him. He […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Dark Nursery Rhymes, CIA Experiments, & Creepy Vintage Halloween Kids
Published on :by Tracy Vanity 4 days until Halloween. Gizmodo has a good article on Project MKultra. It’s pretty creepy. As are vintage Halloween kids…
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Human Leather, Spooky Videos, & People Pot Pie!
Published on :Tracy Vanity 5 days until Halloween! I can’t believe it’s almost Halloween already. And I still have so much spooky shit to show you! Looks like a normal old book but it is quite unique. Harvard University recently discovered one of their library books was bound in human leather! The book is called Des […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Murderous Women of History
Published on :Tracy Vanity 6 days until Halloween! Although there aren’t as many female serial killers as there are male, there’s still quite an extensive list of killer women. Typically, female killers murder lovers, kids, or work as nurses and off their patients in some twisted “angel of mercy” syndrome. Some just do […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Unauthorized Biography
Published on :by Eric Hendrixson Even as a child he was like that. In school, during the class on fractions, he told the nun she was a liar and refused to listen. He was suspended for a week. He said, “You can’t have anything part-way.” When October came, he dressed up like […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Clowns & Creepypasta
Published on :by Tracy Vanity I’m very pleased with how “American Horror Story: Freak Show” is coming along. The characters are fun, especially Twisty. You can be Twisty for Halloween! Here is a tutorial: But not everyone is pleased with Twisty’s antics. The Clowns of America International think Twisty makes all clowns look bad, […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: The 13 Best Horror Porn Parodies (NSFW)
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Watching horror movies is a staple all year for most of us and triples on Halloween. With all this extra horror film viewing comes the lists! Most disturbing, best Halloween 80’s nostalgia, best ever period! Since there are lists galore of best horror films to watch, and do feel […]
Bizarro Field Trip with Eric Hendrixson: Pt II
Published on :Missed Part One? Never fear! Click HERE to catch up! The House on the Rock is an architectural anomaly, a spectacle, an autobiography in clutter, and a museum of hoarding. It holds vast, unrelated collections of of artifacts, some of them authentic. It is said to be the most popular tourist destination […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: 6 Spooky Comics!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Do you have any favorite creepy comics?
Flash Fiction Friday: Amnesia Bug
Published on :by Jeremy Maddux It was about midday when all the commotion started out on Brightway Boulevard. A man in pinstripe business attire was coming back from lunch with the routine sugar buzz of his franchised coffee kicking in when he noticed something on the ground. He went to his knees […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Head Transplants
Published on :by Tracy Vanity In 1970, a doctor by the name of Robert J. White transplanted the heads of two rhesus monkeys. The procedure was a “success” since the animals were alive and responded to stimuli. They were able to move their heads and even bite a pencil. What’s worse, they could […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Spooky Bizarro News Roundup!
Published on :By Tracy Vanity Can’t carve worth a shit? You can buy a California organic “Pumpkenstein.” The price for this molded monster masterpiece? $75! In more monster pumpkin news, this 2,058 pound pumpkin set a record. 5,000 brown recluse spiders invade a house in Missouri. Boy dies from brown recluse bite. Just in […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: McKamey Manor Will Fuck With Your Psyche!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Lots of people have been sending me links to this promo video for the most extreme haunted house ever created. I’m glad that fucked up Halloween shit reminds you of me. I’m touched. If you have not yet watched the video, watch it! https://youtu.be/vl6CGlBVpCA (Could not be […]
Bizarro Field Trip with Eric Hendrixson: Pt I
Published on :As midnight approached, we were far from the highway, on the kind of country road that starts a third of the horror films made in the ’80s. That’s when the GPS signal dropped out. My wife hadn’t told me where we were going. When we decided to take a trip, […]
Flash Fiction Friday: This Page Is Intentionally Left Blank
Published on :That’s right. No FFF this week. We here at Bizarro Central are in dire need of content! If you have a bizarro story, 2000 words or less, attach it as a .doc or .rtf and send it to garthurbrown@hotmail.com. Please include a brief, single paragraph bio. Here’s a fun gif:
Halloween Chaos Countdown: A Message from ZBags
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Colin Raff, aka ZBags, is a talented, surreal artist who makes the most trippy gifs you will ever see in your life. I messaged Colin on tumblr, asking him to say a few words about his amazing gifs and to tell me what his favorite horror movie is: […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Elvira’s 2 Big Pumpkins
Published on :by Tracy Vanity The Queen of Halloween just premiered a new music video for her purple vinyl 7″ single. “2 Big Pumpkins” is out today from Third Man Records. She’s hotter than ever! Elvira is performing at Knott’s Scary Farm and has a Halloween series on Hulu called “13 Nights of Elvira.” Cassandra Peterson […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Your Guide to Medieval Torture
Published on :by Tracy Vanity The Dark Ages were full of amazing things like kings and queens, the plague, and some of the most inventive methods of torture that are still used today. Here are some of the most inventive methods of old school torture. The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Your Weekend 6 Halloween Song Playlist With a Bizarro Photoblast Accompaniment!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity Behold! A collection of horror songs to help you while doing something spooky and debaucherous during your first weekend of October! Texas Chainsaw 3D Mash-Up https://youtu.be/lQUcnOO7uFU Do you have any favorite spooky songs? Please share them so I can add them to my ever expanding Halloween YouTube mix and future […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Three Shorts from Márió Z. Nemes
Published on :by Márió Z. Nemes. Translated by Zoltán Komor Red Water In the village of the dwarfs everyone’s about four inches long. They shoot the ones who grow taller, keeping a gun around just for this purpose. The dwarfs call it Mother’s anger, but they also like to use the saw. […]
Halloween Chaos Countdown: Ode to the Freaks
Published on :by Tracy Vanity After getting worked up over last season’s “Coven” and being completely disappointed, I was skeptical about the newest season of “American Horror Story.” Being a big fan of Tod Browning’s Freaks, as well as “Carnivale,” and The Pilo Family Circus, I adore sideshows and carnivals. The “Freak Show” theme has a lot […]
Halloween III: Season of the Witch!
Published on :by Tracy Vanity What better way to kick off October than with a Halloween horror classic that’s about a countdown to Halloween? Unlike the other Halloween films, this movie has nothing to do with Michael Myers, who only makes a brief appearance in a TV commercial. This film stands alone in its […]