The cult section of the literary world
Best Collection: The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey (Madness Heart Press) “Robert Guffey’s The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is weirder than parthenogenesis, weirder than the Republican Party, weirder than the fetishizing of pregnancy that suffuses our culture, weirder than all the back issues of Weird Tales combined. You […]
The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2025 awards, for books published in 2024, will be presented in November. Preliminary voting has ended, and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL Starlet […]
by Ben Arzate Martin goes to a Bible camp while his mom works on her dream gig of doing makeup for ahorror movie. What he doesn’t expect is that he’s going to face something there scarier than anymovie he’s ever seen. Meanwhile, his mother keeps sending him emails, weaving tall […]
by Ben Arzate The Unreprinted explores the depths of books forgotten and fallen into the limbo of being out-of-print and only available as used copies. A place where strange and bizarre books can often be found. In this entry for Bizarro Central, we take a look at Samuel R. Delany‘s […]
by Ben Arzate How can anything make sense once it feels so big? I’m barely in control of myself. How can the sky be anything but a huge, beautiful fluke? Whatever it is, I’ll take it. The unnamed narrator of Thomas Moore’s We’ll Never Be Fragile Again spends the one […]
by Ben Arzate Norman Spinrad’s new, surreal novel is written in the form of a series of documents related tothe DREAMMASTER, a machine which allows its user to control their dreams like choosing afilm to watch. It consists of advertisements, manuals, records of dreams, and online dispatches.Through these, a narrative […]
by Ben Arzate The Unreprinted explores the depths of books forgotten and fallen into the limbo of being out-of-print and only available as used copies. A place where strange and bizarre books can often be found. For this first entry for Bizarro Central, we take a look at the unusual […]
by Ben Arzate The gods have been on the back foot since their ill-fated alliance with Adolf Hitler during WWII.Loki, the narrator of the novel, has been content living a hedonistic life in America. Odin, on theother hand, has a plan to bring the gods back into ascendance. He recruits […]
Subscribing to a Ghoulish Books Membership allows you to pre-order the 2025 publication line-up at a 10% discount from retail prices. They have three subscription options available this year: ULTIMATE GHOUL, TRUE GHOUL and DIGITAL GHOUL. Here’s what you get: DIGITAL GHOUL MEMBERSHIPS (EBOOKS) $30 TRUE GHOUL MEMBERSHIPS (PAPERBACKS + […]
By Madeleine Swann I’ve written about strange silent films before, including A Page of Madness by art collective Shinkankakuha (School of New Perceptions) and The Seashell and the Clergymen by Germaine Dulac (technically the first surrealist film no matter how much Dalí insisted his was). However, I’d like to show […]
Leigham Shardlow (host), Dani Brown, Chris Meekings, and Madeleine Swann join around the proverbial campfire to read ghostly holiday stories.
Today we take a look at The Deadfall Wisconsin Podcast. Five of the most experienced and qualified investigative journalists in the world focus their combined expertise into solving one of nature’s greatest mysteries. Legends of fanged deer stretch back hundreds of years, but where did these fanged deer come from? […]
Self-proclaimed psychedelic flapper who writes weird things. Hailing from Essex in England, Madeleine is a Wonderland Award-nominated author of such works as Fortune Box and Reality But More Fun. She’ll give you a hit of dopamine and put a smile on your face in 30 seconds or less. Or, if […]
Astoria, Oregon was the scene of this year’s Bizarro Con. Organized and hosted by Cameron Pierce and Kirsten Alene, the majority of events took place in the Lovell Showroom at Fort George Brewery. We would like to thank all of the businesses in Astoria who opened their doors to our […]
The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2024 awards, for books published in 2023, will be presented at BizarroCon 2024. Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL […]
This year saw the long-awaited return of Bizarro Con to its full glory. Bizarros from all corners made the trek to Portland, Oregon to attend workshops and panels, perform readings, make merry, form bonds, and crush the competition during the Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. Most of all, to celebrate the best […]
Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M. Shaw (Tenebrous Press)God’s Leftovers by Grant Wamack (Bizarro Pulp Press)The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair by Carlton […]
The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. The 2023 awards, for books published in 2022, will be presented at BizarroCon on November 18th. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and […]
It’s almost time for the 15th Annual BizarroCon in Portland, OR November 16-19, 2023. If you are a creator or lover of bizarro fiction, here are a few reasons you should attend!
Delicious Dishes for You and Your Dog brings you over 40 recipes carefully crafted to omit dog-toxic ingredients while maximizing flavor to satisfy all your taste buds. Shake up mealtime by making something special for the whole family – including your canine loved ones! Lisa Goddard, along with the help of her […]
With the help of her gothy best friend, a socially-awkward 80s movie-obsessed teenager hatches a plan to trick the most popular boy in school into being her prom date. The only problem is, she has a secret missile hidden inside her vagina, ready to detonate on the day she gets […]
Pest presents the bizarre events that lead a new, parallel life for a man named Chalo as a wild yak living in the Himalayas. Chalo the man is recruited by a latter-day prophet named Grant to design and build a campus on Catalina Island, where initiates will be trained to […]
“I already knew Carson Winter was one of the best newer writers of the Weird, but with SOFT TARGETS my admiration and expectations of his work have skyrocketed. Read this book.” Jon Padgett, author of The Secret of Ventriloquism Join New Weird Horror publisher Tenebrous Press and author Carson Winter […]
Tentacle Wrestling! Fuzzy Robots! Giant Flowers! Haunted Books! It’s all in the first episode of The Slow Poisoner Show, a fifteen-minute free streaming video that combines the creepiness of a late-night horror host with the kookiness of an early-morning kids’ show, plus a twist of anti-budget public access weirdness. “Tentacle […]
A literary meditation on sex. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice. Each partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire and regret — a pop […]
In this intimate collection of poetry, spells are cast, hearts are broken, and prayers go unanswered. Sad Sexy Catholic follows the journey of a young twenty-something as she navigates the already difficult task of existing made even harder by trauma, body dysmorphia, a personality disorder, and leftover guilt from a […]
Welcome to a world where the irrational and unexpected is just a way of life, and normality is reserved to be nothing more than a perpetuation of victimization… A House in the sky – Existence amongst human statues – A decomposing corpse in a water-cubed desert – Mysterious conversations with […]
February just got a little hotter under the shell! Hunter returns to the LUST series after ruffling our feathers with all of them chickens. Now the CRABS are pinching. These hard-shell anti-poetry romps flip the sandcastles upside down and take you not just to the beach, but into the mind […]
I saw the last five minutes of the human race, and it was beautiful. In this apocalyptic alphabet primer, award-winning author Michael Allen Rose teams up with famed Bizarro artist Jim Agpalza to walk through the end of humanity one letter at a time. Beautifully illustrated and powerfully written, this […]
Once more the covid-19 pandemic has preempted the return of a full Bizarro Con. However, Bizarros cannot be deterred from a November pilgrimage to McMenamins Edgefield outside Portland, Oregon. Affectionately and unofficially dubbed “Bizarro Con Jr: Part 2” and “New Diet Bizarro Con,” this small gathering held the Wonderland Awards […]
SOMETHING IN THE WOODS IS CALLING YOU. IT WANTS TO CHANGE YOU…PERFECT YOU. PRAY IT KILLS YOU FIRST. Three brothers searching the wilderness for their mother instead find a utopian cult that seeks to reinvent society, family…humanity “PERFECT UNION is Cronenberg’s THE FLY on a grand scale: human/insect gene-spliced body […]
In each of these stories, the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny. Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe’s debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy neighbors to boomtown prostitutes, sentient moss to ghouls […]
Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form—and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with unlimited ambitions collide on the ultimate […]
Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture, and humiliation into works of art. It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set of charcoals still imbued with his […]
Preliminary voting has ended and the final ballot has been determined. Here are the nominations for this year’s Wonderland Book Awards: NOVEL JURASSICHRIST by Michael Allen Rose (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)GIRL IN THE WALLS by Katy Michelle Quinn (Clash Books)FULL METAL OCTOPUS by Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead Press)SUBURBAN GOTHIC by […]
