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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve been hearing forever that Punk is Dead. And zombie stories are even deader. ZOMBIE PUNKS FUCK OFF is here to show that is bullshit. This antho is loaded with 14 stories of gnawing teeth, shredded entrails, rotting masses, punk as fuck fury, post-punk weirdness, and beautiful decay. Within these […]
