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New Bizarro Author Series Review #32: 8-Bit Apocalypse by Amanda Billings

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by J.W. Wargo Id Says:BWEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!! Toss in another quarter, don’t let the bastard die! Who the fuck thought to bury all those Atari cartridges in New “No Lives Here So Let’s Test Another Nuke” Mexico? Don’t they know what happens when anything is introduced to radioactivity?? Haven’t they seen GODZILLA??? […]

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Bizarro Breaking News: 12-year-old Girls Stab a Peer 19 Times in the Name of Slenderman

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by Tracy Vanity Prosecutors say two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please a mythological creature they learned about online. Both girls were charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court; they each face up to […]

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New Bizarro Author Series Review #31: The Mondo Vixen Massacre by Jamie Grefe

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by J.W. Wargo Id Says:SSSSSSPPPPLLLLLUUUUUUUUUURRRRRTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! Fucking stab my dick with a stiletto heel! Vixens have gone mucho loco terrorizing the world with their outrageously sadistic games. No one is spared. Middle class suburbia is turned to rubble, families torn apart both figuratively and literally. Oh, but they fucked up royally […]

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Bizarro Central’s Summer Reading List

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We asked more than a dozen authors of bizarro fiction to name the book they’re most excited to read this summer. The resulting list is a mix of new releases, classics, and a few that may surprise you. If you’re looking for a great summer read, here’s what sixteen bizarro fiction stars […]

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A Talking Eyeball Walks into a Bar: An Introduction to Bizarro Fiction

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Bradley Sands is teaching an online class on writing bizarro fiction. It’s for a new lit site called Lit Demon. In this workshop you will learn to write high-concept bizarro while concentrating on the absurd and the surreal. You will discover what “high concept” means and learn what appeals to bizarro readers. We […]

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Bizarro Breaking News: 8-legged Hermaphroditic Goat Born in Croatia

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This extraordinary baby goat has EIGHT legs and both male and female reproductive organs. Vets say the extraordinary animal’s extra limbs are the result of an underdeveloped twin sibling. Croatian farmer Zoran Paparic’s couldn’t believe what he was seeing when his goat Sarka recently gave birth. He said: “I counted his legs and […]

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New Kindle eBook from Jeff Burk

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From the same author that brought you SHATNERQUAKE, SUPER GIANT MONSTER TIME, CRIPPLE WOLF, and SHATNERQUEST comes… Jeff Burk is the cult favorite author of several books including SHATNERQUAKE and CRIPPLE WOLF. He is also one of the most original, ridiculous, and nerdy voices in the bizarro genre. B-MOVIES AND […]

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New Bizarro Author Series Review #30: The Church of TV as God by Daniel Vlasaty

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by J.W. Wargo Id Says:HOOOOLLLLLLYYYYYY EMERGENCY BROADCASTING SYSTEM!!!! Everyone knows TV addicts are out there, but fucking television cultists praying in a house of screens? And now their zealous boob-tube leader thinks he’s found their savior. Oh, great are the cable channel deity motherfuckers! This cathode-ray of sunshine doesn’t know […]

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Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup, April Fools’ Edition!

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by Tracy Vanity What’s fake and what’s real? Does it even make a difference? Here’s the latest weird news, hot off the internet! NETFLIX unveils awesome “Cage Mode” films! Darth Vader is running for president of the Ukraine! Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup, April Fools’ Edition! What’s fake and what’s real? Does […]

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The Tea House: On Organization and Planning

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Guest Post by S.T. Cartledge Today’s Tea House post is brought to you by a good old fashioned Irish Breakfast tea. It’s nothing fancy, it’s just a good, reliable tea. It’s a great way to start the morning. I recently moved house, and there’s been a period of about a week […]

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Show Me Your Shelves: CV Hunt and Andersen Prunty

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by Gabino Iglesias You want to talk about talented duos? It doesn’t get better than these two. Seriously. Andersen Prunty is one of my favorite authors, an editor/publisher whose taste I agree with and whose work ethic I admire, and a man I got to “study” for an author spotlight […]

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Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro Short Film Festival

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by Tracy Vanity This first Bizarro short is pretty much Batman with clowns. I love clowns. Avey Tare from Animal Collective created this music video to promote his album “Enter the Slasher House.” Little Fang, the cat vampire-looking puppet, is from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and there is a serious nod […]

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Twisted Tuesdays: Antlers & Horror

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by Tracy Vanity Antlers are a predominant image in the “Hannibal” television series. It is represented in connection to the Wendigo, a metaphor for Hannibal Lecter himself. The Wendigo is an antlered demonic cannibalistic spirit in Algonquian legend. There is also a mental disorder called the “Wendigo Psychosis” in which the […]

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Women and Children in the Time of The Door That Faced West

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(In this post, I speak in general terms about women’s issues in the years 1799-1800. Exceptions to what I’ll note existed, but they were few and far between.) The point-of-view character in my new novel, The Door That Faced West, (released in February by Lazy Fascist Press) is a sixteen-year-old […]

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Twisted Tuesdays: Bizarro News Roundup!

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by Tracy Vanity Texas man stabbed with Legend of Zelda Sword is in serious condition.  Cat attacks the shit out of a British man for wearing Hugo Boss cologne.  “The Swiss Cheese Pervert” has struck again!  Another victim came forward over the weekend, the fourth woman accusing 42-year-old Christopher Pagano […]