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Better Call Rob
After the events of bad hotel, strange events continue to plague the world.
Dustin and Rob ignore these events though, choosing to pretend they are heroes who saved the world years ago, and everything is fine.
That is until Benjamin Franklin climbs out of a cow's ass.
And they watch monsters harrass a children's show host on Public Access.
Deciding something needs to be done, and who better than themselves to do it, Dustin and Rob once again hit the road in an attempt to save the mysterious Captain Knobby, avoid the Mothman, and finally put an end to everything they already thought they'd put an end to.
"In 2017, Bad Hotel showed us what Bizarro was. Today, Better Call Rob points to what Bizarro has the potential to be" - Carl Fuerst, author of The Falling Crystal Palace
Get Dustin Reade’s BETTER CALL ROB HERE
My Birth and Other Regrets
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 an old oil-painting - Heavy Metal infants in utero - A grotesque rotting ailment - Coma-based realities - Unusual private investigators for God - Male body dysmorphia - A fever-dream punk show - Part human, part clownfish... all elements in an experiment that's completely unstable, and highly explosive - NOT SAFE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION! My Birth and Other Regrets is a wonderfully weird and beautifully bizarre venture into the annals of unpredictable storytelling. Featuring 19 short stories that change tone and genre with each entry, from subtle to surreal, hallucinatory to horrifying, morose to madness - all handled by the masterful mind of musician and storyteller, Ben Fitts.
Get Ben Fitts’ MY BIRTH AND OTHER REGRETS HERE
SNAILBUTTER
A campy horror of regret, synchronously morphing into a monstrous, unexpected outcome. High school adultescent can be tough sometimes, especially if you're hiding inside a snail shell refusing to come out, shelling out the world around you even your best friend. Snailbutter is a Bizarro punch of imagination packed with evil genetically-modified animals, sexy robots, Nazi scientists, cannibal lovers, cute British girls from other dimensions, and much more. What will become of Brian while he is inside the giant snail shell?
"One part coming-of-age, one part after-school special and one part Frankenstein; shaken and stirred with Fitts' wild brand of storytelling delivers this lovable classic for the insane" -- Frank Edler, Author and host of the Bizzong Podcast.
Get Ben Fitts’ SNAILBUTTER HERE
COLD WAR
"Action-packed and funny as hell. Cold War is high-concept bizarro done right!" - Danger Slater, author of Moonfellows and House of Rot.
Gordy Beck wants to deal his drug-laced ice cream to children in peace, but standing in his way are rival confection dealers and gangs who want a piece of the action. His brother, Quinton, works for the Sno-Cone Mafia, the chief threat to Gordy's business. When Quinton orders a hit on Gordy, it triggers an all-out war. Gordy enlists the help of his lover (a living ice cream sandwich), and a sentient bag of frosting called the Buttercream Bandit, who uses her Jawbreaker tumors as deadly weapons.
In his quest for absolute control of the neighborhood, Gordy must fight off cotton candy slush demons, Sno-Cone henchmen, an overzealous neighborhood watch, and his own brother. Amid icy combat, the brothers must decide which is more important-business or family. But in the end, only one treat lord will reign supreme.
Get John Chambers’ COLD WAR HERE
Stone Ovaries and Bowling Balls Trapped in Beautiful Prodigy World
Scandalous dink and linguistic acrobat Stone Ovaries joins Kevin and his preternatural balls as they attempt to escape Beautiful Prodigy World while evading Pizzazzster and her deadly allies.
Will Stone Ovaries betray her principles and compliment Pizzazzster's sparkly leggings? Will Kevin make it to The Spice Hall in Mindmushina Mall to get that bottle of Five Pepper Impalement hot sauce? And what about the bird that Stone Ovaries inadvertently let into the retail monolith?
Be prepared to navigate a minefield of immaturity filled with bodily expulsions, princesses, deranged mothers, malapropisms, and guacamole.
Douglas J. Ogurek, founder of the unsplatterpunk subgenre, delivers a nauseatingly original tale that smothers a positive message in an ultraviolent and ultra-bizarre coating.
Get Douglas J. Ogurek’s STONE OVARIES AND BOWLING BALLS TRAPPED IN BEAUTIFUL PRODIGY WORLD HERE
Dead Monkey Rum
A mixture of urban fantasy and Los Angeles noir, DEAD MONKEY RUM revolves around a stolen Tiki idol that contains the ashes of visionary artist Stanislaw Szukalski. Our heroes, an alcoholic monkey named Robert Mclintlock and a beautiful bartender named Stephanie Waterfall, must locate the missing statue in the wilds of Los Angeles before a tribe of pissed-off Yetis can get their massive, dirty paws on it. Because the obsidian idol possesses magical properties, the cryptozoological beasts intend to use it to kickstart the destruction of the entire human race.
DEAD MONKEY RUM is an alcohol-fueled voyage through the heart of Los Angeles.
This tumultuous odyssey amidst the Tiki bars, illicit casinos, exclusive hotels, trains, buses, and hidden tunnels and grottoes that lay beneath the City of Angels propels our hero, Robert McLintock (who just so happens to be a wiseacre simian conman from a small island called Koshima located off the coast of Japan), from his comfort zone in Orange County, into the violent byways of Hollywood, and far beyond Southern California to the Rano Rarako volcanic crater on the remotest island in the world, Rana Nui, also known as Easter Island, where our heroes ultimately engage in a final, fierce, knockout battle with an army of homicidal Abominable Snowmen for the control of Planet Earth.
Get Robert Guffey’s Dead Monkey Rum HERE!
Valley of the Frankensteins
IT'S THE MOB VERSUS ZOMBIES IN A TROPICAL ISLAND PARADISE!!
On a private island off the Florida coast, a group of unusually gifted Mafioso, slapstick Federal Agents, and horny Corporate Stooges must fight their way through a nightmarish mélange of killer critters, undead monsters, earthquakes, volcanoes and each other in a splatter-filled gore fest by Bizarro maestro, Dustin Reade.
A comedic love letter to the pulp novels of old, and a tip of the hat to the Men's Adventure Magazines of the Swingin' Sixties, Valley of the Frankensteins is a glorious monument to the glorious garbage of yesteryear, and a Trashlit Tiki Torch to today.
Get Dustin Reade’s Valley of the Frankensteins HERE!
All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams
"I killed my first Nazi at four years old. It wasn't art; I didn't discover the joy of a psychotropic kill until much later. Each moment that led up to it was the crescendo of a future lover screaming from around the bend of time, begging for the tantric orgasm that would define our future." Thus begins the lurid, gore-filled memoir of the author. Tainted by miles of hallucinogenic inspiration and sprinkled with poetic interludes, SHROOMS & SCREAMS seeks to bind reality with vision, discovering the truth that lies somewhere between what happened and what should have happened.
Part memoir, part novel, part collection, All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazis' Screams is more than a book, it's a way of life.
Get it HERE!
Strawberry Jelly Donut Creem Betweens: A Full Review
We all know and certainly all love that buy-'em-anywhere cookie, that two cookity crisps sandwiching a lush disc of cream or creme or Creem, that yummy puck that fills your mouth with wholesome wonder! I'm referring to none other than Creem Betweens, the country's best-loved cookie!
First, I suppose I should give a little background to you, the reader of this "review", the one who has happened upon my final manuscript and is actually about to read through the contents, hopefully, in their entirety. I dearly hope these words, my last, will not fade silently into obscurity and the truth in this manuscript be forever lost. That'd be a tragedy. So, here's hoping.
Get Mike James Davis’ Strawberry Jelly Donut Creem Betweens: A Full Review HERE!
Scanlon’s Overpass
Scanlon's Overpass. It's a shitty place. But for Eugene, an ex-clown recruited by his former comedy partner into a para-governmental, supranational organization engaged in psychic warfare, the overpass is going to become something a hell of a lot weirder!
"You're gonna go places. In your head. If you read this book, because it has words. I am a character in this book." -Frank/Javert (a character in this book)
"Please! Let me out! The Mimes Reign Supreme! Release me, goddamnit! Release me!"- Eugene (also inside)
Get William Higgs’ Scanlon’s Overpass HERE!
Interviews with the Temporally Displaced
Spontaneous Human Teleportation, otherwise known as Unexplained Temporary Temporal Displacement is an event that very few have experienced and for those that have they are not oft believed. Stephon King is one of those seeking to meet those unfortunate souls who for unknown reasons have impossibly slipped between one space to the next.
From Louisiana to California, he interviews these poor individuals that claim to have teleported without their consent. In his investigation, he tries to believe those who tell their stories, hoping to validate his own sanity, but more and more he finds holes in their tales.
Interviews with the Temporally Displaced is a surreal investigative adventure from the mind of Shawn Wayne Langhans. Get it HERE!
Warped Brood
Ray Carpenter is a glass-half-full control freak who just wants the world to make sense. When the Warp suddenly descends on humanity, though, bizarre mental illnesses strike adults all over the globe and throw his life into chaos. Ray's mother becomes convinced that her right hand is a parasite, his wife is gripped by the notion that she's a corpse, and Ray himself is haunted by delusions that his loved ones are imposters.
As the adults grapple with madness, grotesque transformations alter the children. Ray's son develops strange bumps on his skin and an unsettling sixth sense, while his behavior grows increasingly incomprehensible and ever-more disturbing.
Ray struggles to hold onto his sanity and his family-but as the Warp twists reality, it may change them all into monsters.
Get Kevin Stadt’s Warped Brood HERE!
My Weird Nightmare Baby by Riley Odell
When Neil Pierson was young, his father was killed by a tsunami of newborn infants. As an adult, Neil carries a deep-seated fear of children. Unfortunately, his society has no tolerance for "baby haters."
Declared a criminal, he's sentenced to look after an infant for a year. This is no normal infant, however. It's a demonic imitation, with an insatiable bloodlust and the ability to act on it. Neil wants nothing more than to be rid of the strange nightmare child, but if he wants to survive in a world of madness, murder, and meat, he'll have to do the unthinkable--learn how to be a father.
Get Riley Odell’s My Weird Nightmare Baby HERE!
Russells in Time: Land Squid Vs Dinosaurs
YOU'RE DOING TIME TRAVEL!
It's the year 2001... No, it's 2022? No...
It's the future, with land-squids and kidnapped celebrities in super suits.
Squid are the dominant species eighty million years from now. But they have a problem: Dinosaurs are coming home.
Fear, greed, xenophobia and ego inevitably lead to war.
Three celebrities from the early 21st Century in a weird world--recruited to fight, unaware of the truths of the situation...
Out of their element... beyond their experience...
They are RUSSELLS IN TIME.
Get Russells in Time: Land Squid vs Dinosaurs HERE
The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Volume 2
Think you know the Simpsons? Think again.
A man takes his obsession with tacos one step further.
An elder god finds love in an online chatroom.
A giant sphincter grows on a rather confused man’s wall.
Enter a world where the dead are contagious, exploding into steel coils and overrunning the planet.
A gutworm makes an unwelcome appearance on a busy bus.
The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Vol. 2 features eleven carefully crafted surreal tales of the absurd, the hilarious, and the outright horrific.
Edited by Matthew A. Clarke
Get The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Volume 2 HERE
Cthulhu Fishing off the Iraq Nebula by Chris Meekings
So, an elder god hatched, destroying your planet and killing the love of your life. Would you be depressed? Would you want revenge? Would you just go fishing for the big bastard in your spacefaring house off the Iraq Nebula, aided by the inbuilt computer-generated assistant and an alien who crashed into you...of course you would.
Available here!
The Falling Crystal Palace by Carl Fuerst
The residents of Sterling, Indiana don't know who they are.
Sixty-one year old Tory Stebbins runs an Identity Verification agency that can help. But, as her town implodes, so does her business. She has fewer clients, stiffer competition, and her methods have become mysteriously ineffective. Most alarmingly, she's now suffering from the same problems she's helped her clients with over the length of her career.
Just when her situation seems beyond hope, Tory receives a cryptic message from Hoppy Bashford, her best friend who, forty years earlier, disappeared. "I don't want to say it's a life or death situation," writes Hoppy, "but I want to say it's a life or death situation."
Tory's quest to find Hoppy leads her through the strange, shifting landscapes of Sterling, and the enigmatic quarry around which it is built, and ultimately to the Crystal Palace Resort, a hotel and waterpark with an infinite maze of hallways, rooms, and bizarrely themed attractions whose size and scope defy physics and reason. To locate her lost friend, escape from the resort, and find a cure for the identity-scrambling, reality-bending condition from which everyone in her world suffers, Tory must come to terms with who she is; she must determine her place in, relationship to, and path through the universe.
Available here!
Dad Jokes by Justin Hunter
A deviant kid tires of his absent father's antics and summons a curse that will kill him the moment he tells one of his tired zingers. Little does he know that this time, his dad has left for good.
The curse spreads. Dads are dying all over town and nobody knows how to stop it. Meanwhile, the wayward father kills time at a strip club and meets a dancer whose body hungers for wayward men. Literally.
The town falls into chaos while their lone police officer's sentient shotgun begins to question his owner's monogamy.
Fiona, the kid's sister, tires of her mother's inattentiveness, and decides she must take her freedom, and the town's future, into her own hands.
DAD JOKES by Justin Hunter is a comedic action-packed adventure about a small town horror and a deadly curse that could spell the end of humanity.
Available here!
Ebola Saves the Planet! and Other Wholesome Tales.
by Matthew A. Clarke
A man gets a ticket to a popular gameshow and is willing to risk life and limb to go home with the prize.
A family tries to survive in a world where gravity is reversed and explosive balloon animals rule the streets.
A new epidemic hits the world. People are spontaneously erupting into mounds of steel coils, but after years, the kids are growing restless. Will they be able to survive a secret outing outside of their safehouse?
A young girl born to super villains feels out of place among her family and peers. Upon discovering a dastardly plot to cause widespread catastrophe, will she defy her family and save the planet?
Ebola Saves the Planet! and Other Wholesome Tales is a collection of eleven wild tales from the mind of Matthew A. Clarke.
Contains eleven detailed illustrations.
The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Vol.1
IN A WORLD WHERE BODY AUGMENTATION IS THE NORM, A MAN IN NEED OF A NEW PAIR OF LIPS ENDS UP WITH MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR.
A CLASSIC TALE OF LOVE, FAMILY, AND BETRAYAL. PERFORMED BY SOCK PUPPETS.
A JEALOUS WOMAN VISITS A SPECIAL TREE TO GET A BABY. THE BABY IS NOTHING LIKE HER NEIGHBOURS’.
A WIFE RETURNS HOME TO FIND HER HUSBAND CUT IN HALF VERTICALLY. HE’S COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF IT.
THE BEST OF BIZARRO FICTION: VOLUME 1 FEATURES TWELVE INSANELY MEMORABLE TALES. YOU’LL NEVER LOOK AT LIFE THE SAME WAY AGAIN.
FEATURING STORIES BY MIKE JAMES DAVIS, LEO X. ROBERTSON, MADELEINE SWANN, BILL PURNELL, LEON SAUL, JAMIE KORT, XAVIER GARCIA, MEGAN STOCKTON, JAMES L. STEELE, BEN FITTS, SHAWN WAYNE LANGHANS, AND KEVIN SHAMEL
Available here!
Selleck’s Stache Is Missing!
by Charles Chadwick.
Celebrated Hollywood star Tom Selleck has it all: talent, good looks, a winning personality, and a track record of television and movie hits, enjoyed by millions around the world. Until one day, while filming his latest project, an old rival attacks him and steals his mustache. Now, lost and adrift, Tom struggles with his new life. Along with a group of dedicated crew members, celebrity friends, government agents, and the robot voice of an old co-star, Selleck has to find the strength to take on his greatest role ever: tracking down his old rival, retrieving his legacy, and saving the world.
"I'm about to blurb my foot up your ass" - Autumn Christian, author of Girl Like a Bomb.
Dead Hard
by Matthew A. Clarke.
Silver City is not the kind of place you'd want to be with no recollection of who or what you are. Especially if you happen to find yourself naked in a pig barn, with a fresh bullet hole in your forehead.
Suffocated with overwhelming anger and seemingly superhuman strength, the dead man sets out to discover who is responsible, why he was targeted, and what the speckled gunk sealing his wounds is. Gangsters, police, and freakish creatures that dwell in the depths of the silver mines, the entire city is working to bring him down.
Dead Hard is a brutally bizarre tale of revolution and redemption from the author of Sons of Sorrow.
A Quaint New England Town
by Gregory L. Norris.
When Ezra Wilson took the job as a census worker, he never imagined it would lead to a place like his latest assignment. From the moment he turns off the interstate and travels past the village limits, it becomes clear that Heritage isn't just some quaint New England town.
A sinister encounter at an automobile graveyard is only the start. In Heritage Proper, a town divided down the middle both politically and literally, Ezra is met with hostility on both sides of an imposing brick wall that separates warring factions that have maintained a fragile peace. After scaling the wall into Heritage North, Ezra discovers a beautiful young woman held prisoner in a fortified basement room and promises to help her. To do so will expose the last of the small town's dark secrets and lay bare big planetary dangers if Ezra survives his visit to a destination where even the white picket fences are not at all what they appear to be.
Weird Fauna of the Multiverse
by Leo X. Robertson
"Silly, weird, a lot of fun and with more Koala orgies than you can shake a stick at" -- Madeleine Swann, author of The Sharp End of the Rainbow and Fortune Box.
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 pursue her, he is soon drawn into the battle between the purebred animal supremacy of the park's hippo owner and the anti-establishmentarian koala uprising. "Koalita, Mon Amour" is a story of love against all odds and boundaries of human decency.
Dinosaurs of the CyberVatican
In a godless future, the former Vatican is tethered to the end of a space elevator, where it whips around Earth. Now a major hotspot for sex tourism, its seductive nunbots attract the patronage of Xakrin, a rich Martian traveler who seeks to use the nunbots to contact his deceased wife. However, when he discovers a dead priest in the streets, he begins to investigate the weird plot of the city's head cyberpope.
Everybody Wants to Save Supermammal City
Hugh, Pete and Geoff are supercats that spend their days responding to rescue calls across Supermammal City. But they're not the only ones: the city is packed with supermammals, and there aren't enough rescues to go around. When Hugh decides to do something drastic and devious to resolve this crisis, he changes the industry forever. Everybody Wants to Save Supermammal City explores what happens to love and work when supercats try to succeed in a highly competitive job market.
The stories of Weird Fauna of the Multiverse explore what happens to love and work when pushed beyond the boundaries of human decency.
Porn Land
By Kevin Shamel
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 and ill-equipped for adventure, must travel through the erotic metropolis and gather pieces of THE PORNOMICRON—a sexual spell-book that bridges our worlds. And it won’t be easy. They’ll have to get past a giant geisha and her samurai army, a determined detective who’s after their asses, a badass dominatrix and her gang, a bunch more sexy people, a bunch of unsexy people… And even more things that will freak you out and make you horny—like a sperm monster and ambulance sex. Will Phil and Zed put the book together, save Porn Land and their new friends, and make pornography legal in our world again? (Yes. It’d be a stupid story if they didn’t. But it’s how they do it that you’ll want to read about.)
It’s a story about sucking, and not sucking. It’s got hardcore sex and a hardcore message. It’s ridiculous and you’ll wanna rub one out to it. It’s freakin’ PORN LAND, BABY!
Releasing April 11th, 2022
Sons Of Sorrow
SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT ALONE
Henk has been living a relatively carefree life in the city since fleeing the horrors of the town of Sorrow with his brother, Dave. Never would he have dreamt of returning. Not even for her.
But time and banality have a funny way of eroding the memory of even the worst experiences, bringing only the better times to the forefront of recall, so when he receives a wedding invitation from the third part of their old monster-fighting trio, he finds himself unable to turn it down.
Sorrow has changed drastically from the place it once was, with the murders and suicides that once plagued the town being used as a selling point by wealthy investors to turn it into a morbid attraction for dark tourists.
Beneath the costumed mascots and smiling families, is all really as it seems? Or by returning, have Henk and Dave inadvertently awoken an ancient evil far deadlier than anything they've faced before?
Sons of Sorrow is the latest bizarre horror from the mind of Matthew A. Clarke.
Extremely Bizarre - An extreme horror/bizarro mashup anthology.
A lonely man gets more than he bargained for after ordering a hand-in-a-can from an old magazine.
Enter a world where face pareidolia is deadly and one mistake can lead to a horrifying death.
Join a traumatized woman as she returns to the place of her son’s death, looking for something to fill the hole in her life.
Extremely Bizarre is an exquisite collection of eleven tales accompanied by detailed illustrations.
Featuring stories by: Robert Guffey, T.M. Morgan, Shaun Avery, Sergi G. Oset, Kevin J. Kennedy, Irene Ferraro-Sives, Cliff McNish, B. Patrick Lonberg, Todd Love, Melanie Atkinson, and Gerard Houarner.
Expect Extreme Horror. Expect Bizarro. Expect therapy.
Available here!
Peculiar Monstrosities
A stripper's boyfriend bites off more than he can chew during a hiking trip.
A man looking for love marries a jukebox.
A popular children's character is brought to life, but something isn't quite right.
A shady exchange on a Kaiju cruise leads to catastrophic complications.
Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with fourteen exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.
Featuring tales by: Kevin J. Kennedy, Zoltan Komor, Shelly Lyons, Tim Anderson, Tim O'Neal, Gregory L. Norris, Joshua Chaplinsky, Stanley B. Webb, Jackk N. Killington, Kristen Callender, Michael Pollentine, Tony Rauch, Mark Cowling, and Alistair Rey.