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Flash Fiction Friday: A Fresh Perspective
Published on :by: James Burr The Artist woke up face down on the wall, his favourite Braque print digging uncomfortably into his ribs. It seemed that gravity must have shifted 90° as he slept as he was now lying on the far wall of his bedroom looking up at his bed, which […]
Presenting: The Modern Monarchist
Published on :A new absurdist e-zine has emerged from The Strange Edge. Presenting… Download the first issue HERE
Support Michael Allen Rose via PATREON!
Published on :Hi! My name is Michael Allen Rose, and I’m a Chicago based author, musician and performance artist. I’ve worked in a variety of mediums, but the things I’m most proud of and known for are probably my books, such as Party Wolves In My Skull and Embry: Hard Boiled from Eraserhead Press and Boiled Americans from […]
New Release: Kingdom of Teeth
Published on :From twin writing duo Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason, better known as The Sisters of Slaughter, comes a bizarro fairytale for adults. Molarous is a secret kingdom in a land of myth and magic. Its citizens, the Hyperdontians, are a grotesque race of people whose teeth grow outside of their mouths […]
New Release: Corpsepaint
Published on :It’s been years since the groundbreaking debut of black metal band Angelus Mortis, and that first album, Henosis, has become a classic of the genre, a harrowing primal scream of rage and anger. With the next two albums, Fields of Punishment and Telos, Angelus Mortis cemented a reputation for uncompromising, […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Cogito Ergo Sum
Published on :by: Zé Burns He was a lamp. A China ball lantern wrapped in a bamboo lattice. No, he wasn’t. He was a plant: a delicate ornamental fern, stretching out its fronds over the terra cotta pot in which he sat. No, that couldn’t be right either. Was he a pillow? […]
New Release: Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey and Sylvia Plath
Published on :Archetypes are real. Muses are real. Writers are the channels of these spirits & if that sounds like witchcraft that’s because it is. These stories gave me chills. Sylvia Plath & Lana Del Rey course through the veins of these dark, sexy, mind-bending, fantastical, romantic, & haunting tales. Authors from […]
Available for Pre-order: The Very Ineffective Haunted House
Published on :“Like Lloyd Kaufman and Sam Raimi’s mutant offspring.” -Wil Wheaton “If Chuck Klosterman raised a child on Jack Kerouac, Star Trek and comic books, that kid would be Jeff Burk. Original stuff that is sure to turn heads for fans of any literary genres.” -MC Lars “Jeff Burk writes some […]
New Release: White Death
Published on :January 12, 1888 When a day dawns warm and mild in the middle of a long cold winter, it’s greeted as a blessing, a reprieve. A chance for those who’ve been cooped up indoors to get out, do chores, run errands, send the children to school… little knowing that they’re […]
Interactive Book Trailer for POLYMER
Published on :Caleb Wilson’s Polymer is making waves with a new book trailer! And not just any book trailer, an INTERACTIVE book trailer. Head over to POLYMERVANIA to get started! And purchase Polymer HERE
Flash Fiction Friday: Sign Here, and Here, and Here
Published on :by: Andrew Wayne Adams “I need to eat to be happy. I need to eat souls like yours. I also like cold cuts and ice cubes. I am remorseless.” That was what the garbage disposal said to Ian on his third night in his new apartment. Two nights before, when […]
Podcastlandia!
Published on :Get a dose of weird with recent episodes of some of our favorite podcasts and vlogs, including… JOHN WAYNE LIED TO YOU: Episode 40 – The Day I Used Up All My White Privilege and REVIEW ME PLEASE: S02 E02A Ayalew Mesfin – Hasabe (My Worries) Unboxing
Eraserhead Press & Deadite Press are OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!
Published on :ERASERHEAD PRESS IS OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 1- June 30, 2018 All submissions received by the end of June will receive a response by July 31, 2018. What we are looking for: Eraserhead Press is seeking original novellas and novels of 20,000 to 100,000 words in length that fit […]
New Release: Unlanguage
Published on :From Michael Cisco, one of the most innovative and subversive writers working today, comes the long-awaited, ground-breaking novel of a suicide survivor trying in vain to write himself back into existence. Unlanguage is the story of a man transformed by death and by language change. The language, once understood, transforms […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Snuff Theatre
Published on :by: S.T. Cartledge Leonard is up all night rehearsing his one-man play. The script in hand is only one page and has only three words on it. The first is big and bold: MONOLOGUE: which is promptly followed by ad lib. This is his magnum opus. He had put out […]
New Release: Polymer
Published on :“Purple Rain meets Castlevania. That’s the gothic-wrought-iron-elevator-to-the-next-level-of-the-haunted-castle pitch for Polymer, and while it’s dead-on it still only scratches the blood-patinaed surface of Caleb Wilson’s dazzling debut. It’s a postmodern examination of the turbulent confluence of celebrity and spectatorship and fandom. It’s a carnivalesque romp, teeming with bizarre monsters, stranger heroes, […]
New Release: Giantess Globalist Sperm War
Published on :In a future maybe not so distant from today, a dirty bomb has been dropped and humanity is forever changed. The boys who didn’t die stayed the same but the women grew into giantesses—walking gods as tall as the mountains. To remake a new and better world, all post-pubescent men […]
New Release: Monsters and Animals
Published on :MONSTERS – In one family’s home there is a section of the basement locked-up. After their mother doesn’t come home and their drunk dad refuses to contact the authorities, the kids take it upon themselves to uncover their family’s secrets. What they find is more disturbing than they ever could […]
Flash Fiction Friday: The Sea Slugs
Published on :by: Chris Meekings The man sailed up to the window. He was in a coracle made of a half coconut. His lips thick with spittle. His beard was grey and grizzled long and matted. Around his neck was hung a bloodied pigeon, alternate white and red, with the sign “Albatross” […]
New Release: Failure As a Way of Life
Published on :Ryan Noman is stuck in a house on a dead end street in a dying city, a loveless relationship, and a job where the owner challenges his employees to fights in the parking lot. He also has a mystery rash. When Ryan’s best friend, Gus, convinces him they need to […]
S.T. Cartledge Presents: YOU READ MY PODCAST
Published on :Bizarro author, poet, and Australian S.T. Carledge has created something in total defiance of all the sea of podcasts that saturates the internet. This new and groundbreaking interview format features all the candid conversation of a podcast… but you can read it. That’s right: real, emotional, boundary-breaking revelations and soul-searching […]
New Release: Stacking Doll
Published on :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 under the age of 40 by The Guardian and “one of the most original novelists working […]
New Release: Gods of the Dark Web
Published on :From the author of Engines of Ruin, comes a dark suspenseful novel for fans of Black Mirror, Edward Lee and cosmic horror. The internet is a scary place. Beneath Facebook and Twitter is another world. One in which anything can be obtained—for a price. A community of black markets, depraved […]
New Release: He Digs A Hole
Published on :Get a job. Get married. Buy a house. Cut off your hands and replace them with gardening tools. Dig a hole. Can you hear the worms calling? Keep digging. “Danger Slater is fearless and should be ashamed of himself. Thank God he’s not.” — JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box “If Richard […]
Interview with Autumn Christian
Published on :Clash Media has a great interview up with weird author Autumn Christian. It’s a hell of an interview where topics are covered from thots to McDojos. Read it HERE!
Podcastlandia!
Published on :This week’s roundup of podcasts includes… BIZZONG! Featuring the 2017 Recipient of the Wonderland Book of the Year Award, Danger Slater. Danger talks about his moment at BizarroCon when he won the award and how it affected him. More important, we talk about his newest book, which comes out February 14th, […]
Flash Fiction Friday: Snow Globe
Published on :by: Austin James Winter mornings like this are the deadliest. The clouds press against the terrain, casting flat, gray light. Big, fuzzy snowflakes meander towards the ground. The atmosphere is still and quiet as the crystallized air absorbs both breeze and sound. It seems warm, too warm to be winter; […]
New Release: I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
Published on :I have no idea why I’m full of tadpoles and mayonnaise. No idea why this cockroach is psychoanalyzing me. I don’t know what you’re doing with that moose on your shoulder, don’t know why you still don’t love me even after I bought you that pack of gum. I’m not […]
Bizarro Con 2017: THE VLOGGENING
Published on :Bizarro Con is almost a whole year away, and many of us still have great memories of the 2017 bizarro fiction convention. Bizarro Con is the most magical time and place on earth. Not Bizarro Con is a yearlong slog of boredom and normalcy. Luckily, Madeleine Swann created a lovely […]
Bizarro Vlogs!
Published on :Here comes some of that ultra-modern video web logging! Madeleine Swann and Christoph Paul are hard at work providing content that moves and talks on your screen. First is Ms. Swann, who catalogs some of her favorite weird books… and Christoph with some writing advice…
New Release: David Foster Wallace’s Footnotes F’d Me in the Butt
Published on :This most important short story collection of the 21st century. The University of Mars’ MFA program will teach classes on the brilliance of Mandy De Sandra’s work. The stories in this collection are full of humanity, Gnostic Enlightenment, and can very well lead to spiritual singularity. Get it here
New Release: I Will Burn You Down
Published on :Collected here for the first time, you will find the Patreon reward chapbooks of Michael Allen Rose for 2017. Bizarro. Horror. Weird literary madness. Plays. Syntax. Stories. Absurdism. Sink piranhas. Weird beards. Floating children looking for their demon daddy. Unbeatable chickens playing tic-tac-toe. Nightmares, and dreams, and smut, and insanity; […]
The Devils’ Cradle
Published on :GRAND PRIZE WINNER – TopShelf Magazine’s 2018 Indie Book Awards! On Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists…Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. […]
New Release: F4
Published on :A cruise ship on the back of a sleeping kaiju. A transgender bartender trying to come terms with who she is. A rift in dimensions known as The Sway. A cruel captain. A storm of turmoil, insanity and magic is coming together and taking the ship deep into the unknown. […]
