The publishing world has just received its bill of health, and the prognosis isn't pretty. Literary marauders are rising up from the hazardous material bins labeled Horror, Surrealism, and Science Fiction. Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it is a plague heralding the apocalypse for convention, writing a dirge for complacency. The stories herein explore illness in all its forms: physical, mental, and societal. These sick stories are horrendous, hilarious, and stupefying dissections of creative minds on the scalpel's edge.
The publishing world has just received its bill of health, and the prognosis isn't pretty. Literary marauders are rising up from the hazardous materia...
This anthology from the fringe examines our culture's obsession with taboos and the added temptation that forbidden pleasures bring. Warnings of danger and peril only heighten our desire for those things we have been told are bad, wrong and have been warned against doing. Postmodernists and surrealists come together in these pages with renegade horror and sci-fiction authors to re-envision what is "acceptable." By turns humorous and horrific then shocking and alluring, the authors dissect those very impulses we deny in our everyday lives. While navigating the minefield of gender relations and...
This anthology from the fringe examines our culture's obsession with taboos and the added temptation that forbidden pleasures bring. Warnings of dange...
"I'm a big fan . . . and this is by far his best poetry collection to date. It's sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes deadly serious, but always morbid and thought-provoking. Any horror fan--even those who aren't into poetry--should check this one out." --Jeff Strand, author of "Pressure" and "Casket for Sale (Only Used Once)."
"I'm a big fan . . . and this is by far his best poetry collection to date. It's sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes deadly serious, but always mor...
Already known for his works of speculative fiction, Lawson uses five interlinked tales to paint a panorama of apathy, greed, and manipulation. For those who enjoy satire, bizarro literature, or a good old-fashioned slap to the senses, "Discouraging at Best" offers extra helpings of each.
Already known for his works of speculative fiction, Lawson uses five interlinked tales to paint a panorama of apathy, greed, and manipulation. For tho...
Lawson presents one of the meatiest collections of grizzly, grotey, bizarro poetry--the guilty pleasure stuff that's hard to come by. This edition includes the out-of-print "The Scars Are Complimentary."
Lawson presents one of the meatiest collections of grizzly, grotey, bizarro poetry--the guilty pleasure stuff that's hard to come by. This edition inc...
Kenrick Brimley, the state prison's official gigolo, hangs over a lava pit on trial for his life in a strange land. He will reveal the course of his life one misguided step at a time for his captors. From his romance with serial arsonist Leena Manasseh to his lurid angst-affair with a lesbian music diva, from his ascendance as unlikely pop icon to otherworldly encounters, the one constant truth is that he's got no clue what he's doing. As unrelenting as it is original, Last Burn in Hell is John Edward Lawson at his most scorching intensity, serving up sexy satire and postmodern...
Kenrick Brimley, the state prison's official gigolo, hangs over a lava pit on trial for his life in a strange land. He will reveal the course of hi...
Carlton, III Mellick Jeremy Robert Johnson John Edward Lawson
There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: D. Harlan Wilson, Carlton Mellick III, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Kevin L Donihe, Gina Ranalli, Andre...
There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the wei...
Now available for the first time in this collectable edition, A Child's Guide to Death chills the hearts of a whole new generation After spending years as a treasured tome in the memories of nostalgic and traumatized adults, this vintage great has been digitally restored and put back in print. Unlike some classics A Child's Guide to Death not only ages, but also ends childhood in a single sitting Because if you make a wish upon a star it doesn't matter who you are...you're still gonna die. NEW SIZE WITH 20% MORE DEATH
Now available for the first time in this collectable edition, A Child's Guide to Death chills the hearts of a whole new generation After spending yea...
From the classics to the avante-garde, Snuff Books brings you a collection of stories that find the beauty in the brutal and the art in the absurd. Including tales of orchestrated mayhem, flesh sculpting and gourmet cannibalism, Raw: Brutality as Art features work from some of the genre's best up and coming horror and bizarro writers. Includes stories by Inanna Gabriel, Brandon Ford, Frank Roger, Steven L. Shrewsbury, R.J. Cavender, L.L. Soares, Kevin Lucia, Jessica Lynne Gardner, Eric Enck, James Roy Daley, Stephen Couch, Trever Palmer, Andrew Wolter, and Brendan Connell.
From the classics to the avante-garde, Snuff Books brings you a collection of stories that find the beauty in the brutal and the art in the absurd. In...
Forrest Armstrong Carlton Mellic John Edward Lawson
From the introduction: "I began this anthology to dispel the illusion that we are in a famine age of literature and the result surprised even me in how powerfully it shattered that misconception."
Words are slippery things and though we have bridled them with grammar, feel at ease in the presence of a common turn of phrase, they have not been completely tamed. And there are still writers who are both brave and foolhardy enough to let words out of their cages, feed them despite the signs that clearly state not to and prod them with sticks to see what they might do.
Editor Forrest Armstrong...
From the introduction: "I began this anthology to dispel the illusion that we are in a famine age of literature and the result surprised even me in ho...
