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Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation. Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, […]
On the same day news of the death of a grunge rock icon stuns a generation, young slacker Cole Watson has no goal in mind but to generate a little extra spending money by selling some tapes. That changes when he falls victim to a case of mistaken identity and […]
This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women’s writing, and the process of the “confessional.” Inextricably woven into these investigations of various types of grief is the […]
Bizarro fiction authors of all identities from ten different countries over 4 continents team up in this eclectic collection of flash, short fiction, and poems in order to raise funds for Australian wildlife. Some of them are funny or absurd, others experimental or heart-gripping, but most of them land fiercely […]
Established in 1613 by academic and occult pioneer, as well as failed vintner, Fenrick Oglebutt, through trans-chronological fallacies and a lust for knowledge, Nafallen University has become one of the foremost centers of learning on all matters from the mundane to the mythic. Located in beautifully desiccated Crisp, Texas, Nafallen […]
Koalita, Mon Amour It’s Gimp Week at Venus’ main attraction, Ecofallopialand, where human-impersonating animals and animal-impersonating humans alike can play together – so long as there is no “fraternizing” between species. Unfortunately for Sir, a human gimp, he becomes mesmerized by one of the park’s koalas. When he attempts to […]
A man. A dream. A drive. Ross E Lockhart, already the editor-in-chief of Word Horde, took the leap into a brick-and-mortar operation. In the middle of a pandemic. Because you don’t know what life will throw at you, so don’t delay your aspirations. So we’re jumping in, opening our retail […]
These woods are dark and full of monsters… In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Some say a family of inbred cannibals was responsible. A masked psychopath with a butcher’s knife is another popular […]
The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most renowned author of the time. What could Alcott say to Dickinson about abolitionism and women’s rights? What might Dickinson […]
The anticipated conclusion of the Death Metal Epic trilogy arrives with Book Three: Sinister Synthesizer. Death Metal Epic, Book One: The Inverted Katabasis (2013) and Death Metal Epic, Book Two: Goat Song Sacrifice (2017) follows David Fosberg playing guitar in Valhalla. But don’t worry: this is no jukebox hero saga […]
For 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Once 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 […]
From the disturbed mind of Shane McKenzie comes this extreme tale of the undead. What if eating the walking dead was the only way to ensure you don’t become one? If you ingest the meat of the dead, you can avoid that fate. But if you consume too much, it […]
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Scott Nicolay comes And at My Back I Always Hear, a new collection of eight tales of the macabre and the uncanny. “[Nicolay’s] perspective is always outsider-identified, entirely concerned with characters who refuse to settle, both literally and figuratively; his protagonists often hover on a […]
Child psychiatrist Hannah Cohen thought she could handle difficult cases. But medical school never prepared her for Elena. Nor the demon that’s possessing her. Hannah finds a way to rid Elena of her demon, but not without a price. Years later, Hannah has grown comfortable exorcising the demons of her patients. […]
OH, NO, PORN IS ILLEGAL! That’s right. Porn stars are criminals, pornographic websites are being systematically destroyed, and not even softcore or selfies are okay. And that’s just in our world. It’s literally destroying the magick city of sexual expression – PORN LAND! Phil and Zed, arriving through magickal means […]
56k dial-up. Ouija boards. Crushes. Internet Girlfriend explores the intersection of the internet, the occult, and sexuality. These poems mirror the abyss: divination, web camming, myth, instant messages, queerness, witchcraft—all in the name of trying to feel something. “In Valente’s debut book, Internet Girlfriend, we go on enchanting dates with […]
From CLASH Books, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s celebrated poetry collection We Are the Ones Possessed is out now. Listed at #1 on Lit Reactor’s 10 Dark Recommendations for National Poetry Month 2022. “The “little death” of orgasm isn’t so small after all in Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s We Are the Ones Possessed. […]
In a world where the letter “r” has yet to be discovered, a man named Han Solo and a man named You-Don’t-Have-To-Be-Lonely-At-Farmers-Only-Dot-Com must face something old and evil that lurks behind a locked door in the suburban basement-dungeon in which they are imprisoned… To impress a girl, a unicycle-riding, cask-of-amontillado-drinking […]
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 […]
