The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue)

The new volume of The Bizarro Starter Kit has been released.

It includes a novella from editor, Bradley Sands. It also has novellas and a story collection from past contributors, Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Steve Aylett, and Andersen Prunty.



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 even 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: Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Andersen Prunty, Eckhard Gerdes, Steve Aylett, Bradley Sands, Christian TeBordo, and Tony Rauch.

277 pages

Buy it at Bizarro Central for $7 or at Amazon for a little more.

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Issue 7 and a sale

Issue 7 is out. It is free. It is online. It is a PDF. It begins with a letter from a dog and ends with a bag of gold. It is very good.

It includes stories (Rhys Hughes, D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward Lawson, Sean Kilpatrick, Mike Young, Corey Mesler, Andersen Prunty, Cameron Pierce, Amelia Gray, Caleb Ross, Forrest Armstrong, Stefani Nellen, Erik Williams, Jason M. Heim, and Matt Doyle), books reviews (John Edward Lawson's Discouraging At Best and Jeremy C. Shipp's Vacation), and cover art (Jase Daniels).

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Susurrus Magazine’s special editor’s issue

The issue contains a review of issue 6 and a story from editor, Bradley Sands.

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The Dream People reviews issue 6

"Despite being around for just two years, Bust Down the Door & Eat All the Chickens has quickly become the figurehead publication for the Bizarro, Absurdist, and modern Surrealist literary movements.  In every issue, editor/author Bradley Sands (It Came from Below the Belt) assembles an impressive line-up of groundbreaking prose from some excellent up-and-coming and established writers.  The release of issue six continues the magazine's tradition of high-quality, offbeat fiction." [Read more...]

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Whispers of Wickedness reviews issue 6

Check it out here: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/bust_down_the_door.html

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Our website gets a face-lift

Check out our new site design, brought to you by James Taintor, a thousand year old Mexican who gets his powers from his virility and WANTS to design your website in exchange for your filthy lucre.

Check it: www.absurdistjournal.com

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Bizarro Central

THIS JUST IN:

Love Bizarro fiction? This is the place for you! Don't know about Bizarro fiction? This is the place to learn more!



Bizarro Central is the major hub for the Bizarro genre. It acts as a resource for all those new to Bizarro, a fan site for those who love Bizarro, an online community, and an online bookstore.

With fiction, articles, comics, podcasts, author profiles, interviews, reviews, and much more.

Right now we have fiction by Steve Aylett, D. Harlan Wilson, Vincent W. Sakowski, and John Edward Lawson.

There's a Bizarro comic, "The Eye Hand of the Carolinas," by Andrew Goldfarb.

And a podcast of Mykle Hansen reading from his upcoming Bizarro novel "HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!" ... the gruesome comedy about a go-getter business man who is trapped under his SUV in the middle of the woods and slowly being eaten by a bear. Mykle is a great performing reader, so subscribe to this podcast and hear a chapter a week for free, before the paperback is released in October.

I hope you check it out. Post in the forum and say hi.

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Issue 6 has been released

Cover Art by Brandon Duncan

Featuring stories by Joey Goebel, Stephen Graham Jones, D. Harlan Wilson, Anthony Neil Smith, Jeremy C. Shipp, Bryson Newhart, Andrew Adams, Julius Henry, and Ryder Collins.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

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Avant Punk Army

The Avant Punk Army is a myspace group and has been around for a little while. Its purpose is to help promote the Bizarro genre, which is the sort of work that we publish. Help out and you can obtain exclusive books that aren't for sale anywhere, currently including titles by Carlton Mellick, D. Harlan Wilson, and Kevin L. Donihe. Check out the group here: http://groups.myspace.com/avantpunkarmy

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Review of issue 5

HorrorScope did a review. Here's the end bit since it's the most blurb-worthy:

"Bust Down the Door and Eat all the Chickens is not the eclectic mish-mash of 'odd' stories that it may come across as. The perfect bound, full colour cover presentation places it at the more professional end of the small press fringe, and the content, though varied, comes together to lend the publication a unique and recognisable identity. The quality of the writing is high and, for the most part, beautifully executed. This magazine is a hidden treasure that deserves to be discovered by anyone after cerebral entertainment."

READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE

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