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by Brian Auspice I flip a switch and turn off friction. I slide into a wall. The wall slides into me. Everything and everyone slides into everything and everyone else. We all get a good laugh out of it. I flip the switch again and begin to untangle the mess […]
This weekend, Bizarro Pulp Press will be joining Eraserhead Press, Rooster Republic Press, Weirdpunk Books and others at the Bizarro Writers Association table at PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST in Chicago. The following authors will be present to sign books: MP Johnson, Laura Lee Bahr, Danger Slater, Nicholas Day, Michael Allen […]
A collection of flash fiction, author illustrations, and manipulated images. Note: If you are a really fast reader, then you’ll probably finish reading this book in six minutes and sixty six seconds. Or if you are a really slow reader, then you’ll probably finish reading this book in six years […]
Here’s something horrifying. There are wasps that lay their eggs in the buds of tree leaves. Implanted with wasp eggs, the buds become weird abnormal growths called “oak galls”. They look super weird. This symbiotic relationship between tree and wasp produces all sorts of acids and enzymes that many women […]
Presenting the latest from Eraserhead Press and Kirsten Alene: MOON SNAKE! My mother always said, “Nothing as sad as a moth that thinks it’s found the moon in a candle flame.” And that is who I am, or who I am meant to have been. I whisper under my breath, […]
SPACE TRIPPING is an extremely indie movie that may or may not ever be released, but the trailer is crammed full of so much futuristic weirdness and druggy comedy that I had to post it here.
by Bert Stanton Totino’s Party Pizza is anything but a party or a pizza. It’s a square of questionable food stuffs; dough, cheese and meat in name only. The reality is ingredients manufactured in the basement of a North Korean sweatshop. At a dollar a pop, you really can’t expect […]
by Nathan W. Taynthoemer One sun-brewed Monday in July, there was a monkey. He was incredibly drunk. For no real reason at all, the monkey bellowed “Fuck you, God!” toward the heavens at an ear-bleeding volume. The monkey god didn’t take too kindly to this, so he summoned a plague […]
Bathos! Crippling ennui! Mind-numbing drudgery! Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is so depressed he’s on the brink of suicide. Brad hasn’t really given much thought […]
Feast your slimy peepers on “Swamp Fist!”, the latest offering from The Slow Poisoner. Swamp witches, Trump decapitations, and moss mounds abound!
by Goathead Buckley His ratman-hair overcoat let him live on the cold streets beneath the levitating, blue pyramid. The monstrosity had appeared one quiet afternoon to the north and steadily hovered closer until, by dinnertime, the entire city lay in its shadow. Humans threw themselves out of windows and into […]
Bizarro author and all around renaissance man Michael Allen Rose has launched a YouTube show called REVIEW ME PLEASE! Mr. Rose has a lot of strange and wonderful interests, is a consummate performer, and should’ve been given the Tonight Show instead of Jimmy Fallon. Playing the straight man, sound connoisseur […]
by Rick Sherman DO YOU. As one of many concubines you will want to stand out. The Tah-Lahki have no concept of masturbation. Diddling yourself creatively is a sure way to attract his/her attention and assure you of an extra ration to help put off starvation for another day. PULL […]
Straight out of Poland comes THE LURE, a sexy mermaid cannibalistic musical. And with all of those things combined it’s probably hilarious, too. It’s definitely weird, so check it out where available!
by Lee Widener Madeleine Swann entered the Bizarro realm with her debut novella Rainbows Suck, released through Eraserhead Press’ New Bizarro Author Series in 2015. Now her second novella 4 Rooms in a Semi-Detached House is available from Strangehouse Books. I asked Maddy some questions and she answered them! LEE: […]
by John Wayne Comunale Kyle shut the window, closed the drapes, and made his decision. The ratings had been shit for years, despite it being the longest running show in history. He was the President of Television, and tough decisions like this were his responsibility. He was going to have […]
Available on Amazon: the latest from Jordan Krall! Find yourself on a starship as it lumbers across the desert. Find yourself on a train looking out at the stars, the earth a blue marble in the infinite black abyss behind you. Find yourself overdosing on narcotics in a bathtub at […]
Bizarro artist Alan M. Clark has released another book in his Jack the Ripper Victim series. It’s available at Amazon. This novel is part of the Jack the Ripper Victims Series. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone story. Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th […]
by: Raf De Bie Last week, I asked Cynthia to marry me. Today, the mailman hands me her reply: an empty piece of paper and a plastic bag stuffed with vowels, consonants, and punctuation marks. The mailman pats me on the back. “Sorry fella, they must have fallen off. It […]
Author and interior decorator David W. Barbee compiled some toys and his own inner turmoil to create a trailer for his latest book, Bacon Fried Bastard. Enjoy!
Carlton Mellick III, the godfather of bizarro fiction, is back with a tribute to the unintentionally terrifying children’s commercials of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Only Petey remembers the Fruit Fun cereal commercials of the 1980s. He remembers how warped and disturbing they were. He remembers the lumpy-shaped cartoon children sitting […]
by: Bob Durant Courtney Love tried to suck me off once. No joke. Five years ago, backstage at a Matchbox 20 concert, behind the speaker cases behind the sound booth. She dropped to her knees right there, started grabbing for my fun zone. She was sober, and it was weird. I […]
Chris Kelso was kind enough to share his essay/interview with Buddy Giovinazzo author of Life is Hot in Cracktown and writer/director of the Troma film Combat Shock. Chris is also starting a new press along with Nicholas Day. It’s called ROOSTERVISION, and it’s all about film studies, so if you […]
Vince Kramer’s latest book, released through Thicke & Vaney Books, is here! In this hilarious novel six heroes from six different epochs of earth’s history (and an alien tossed in to add a little alienness) battle Space ISIS for control of a beloved spaceship (and the fate of every living […]
WHO IS LOTTIE PERSON? Is she a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect life or a gross, allergy-ridden mess? Check it out on Amazon!
Coming this August from Soho Press and Brian Allen Carr, a novel of the doom of drinking your own shadow.
Newly released from Eraserhead Press and available from Amazon, it’s… EMBRY: HARDBOILED A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who’s wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Life’s tough for an “embry.” Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, […]
New from Bradley Sands and Rooster Republic Press… “This reads like what might happen if Freud and the Joker collaborated on a rewrite of Blake Butler’s There Is No Year. A weird and swerving book that nonetheless says a lot about the hidden dynamics of families.” – Brian Evenson, author […]
Mystery Meat, that modern underground horror comic about the last American taboo (our food), is now available on Comixology. This way you can witness Cody Goodfellow and Mike Dubisch’s vision of fast food fuckery without getting your fingers greasy and for a very good price. Check it out here.
When a deviant mind like Jeremy Robert Johnson is featured in Publishers Weekly, you know the world’s getting weirder. Huge congratulations to JRJ. Time for every weirdo (and some of the normals, too) to get excited for Entropy in Bloom, due to drop in April!
The latest Eraserhead Press release has dropped and is available on Amazon! S.T. Cartledge presents: The Orphanarium. Here is us. We are here in the Orphanarium. Think: a city in a massive box, vacuum-sealed tight. No one is allowed outside. Here, people are born out of the air or made […]
There have been several Bizarro Starter Kits released through Eraserhead Press, serving as a regular sample platter of the different voices telling weird tales in the bizarro scene. Until now, they’ve all been in English, but our Spanish speaking friends are about to get a surprise… Orciny Press presents BIENVENIDOS […]
Courtesy of Rooster Republic Press comes BAD HOTEL… The whole world is haunted. Ghosts and monsters are everywhere and it’s actually kind of irritating. So, two friends take it upon themselves to get rid of the ghosts and set the world right again, even though they have no clue what […]
“Dope Tits is the work of a puerile, reverted, dangerous and insidious man… I laughed… pretty much the entire time.” Laura Lee Bahr, author of LONG-FORM RELIGIOUS PORN and HAUNT “If you’re looking for an absurdist tour of the vast and dangerous criminal underworld of Fremont, Ohio or a ridiculously […]
Flying Lotus is a rapper who’s branching out into the world of filmmaking, beginning with his first movie, a post-apocalyptic acid trip called Kuso. Word on the street is that this movie is aggressively weird and puts some people off… which makes it a must-see for weirdos everywhere.
