Leza Cantoral’s debut collection of bizarre, erotic, weird fiction is as charming as it is filthy. Cantoral weaves together fairy tales and Disney stories, transforming them into sex-filled fantasies dripping with bodily fluids. Her writing both excites and feels fresh, virgin almost. It’s playful without being too sugar-coated and I really enjoyed this little foray…
Tag: Bizarro
Book review: Starr Creek – Nathan Carson
Nathan Carson’s ‘Starr Creek’ has a little bit of everything. At its core, it is a sort of coming-of-age story that reads like a mix between ‘Deliverance’, ‘The Explorers’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’, so you can probably imagine that I had a great time with the book. Firstly, let’s get the little negative out-of-the-way. It…
2016 best of the best…according to The Grim Reader.
I’m sure you have all been hanging on the edge of your seat just waiting to see what novels would feature in my top 20 for 2016. It has been another bumper book year. My Goodreads challenge was met in September, and I anticipate cracking 200 books for this year (including novellas, anthologies and novels)….
Book review: Shit Luck – Tiffany Scandal
Tiffany Scandal’s ‘Shit Luck’ is a unique read for a couple of reasons. Reason one being that the story is told in the second person which isn’t often used at all and it works very well here. The second is that ‘Shit Luck’ is a genre mash-up of 80s style slasher horror (a little reminiscent…
Book review: Home Birth – Jessica McHugh
I absolutely adore the artwork that is being created for this series of Kaiju novellas from Apocrypha. These novellas are not your usual Kaiju stories. Yes, there are huge monsters with razor sharp teeth, bulging bodies and multiple appendages but these Kaiju stories are very different. Jessica McHugh’s ‘Home Birth’ is novella number two and it…
Book review: Pretty, Pretty Princess – Shane McKenzie
Shane McKenzie strikes me as the type of writer not afraid of experimentation. In the past few months he has gone from hardcore horror with ‘Monster’s Don’t Cry’ to this bizarre little number ‘Pretty, Pretty, Princess’, recently published by Blood Bound Books. I think it is one of those books you will either like or dislike…
BTB Storytellers episode 5: Chris Kelso talks UNGER HOUSE RADICALS
Hi there, and welcome back to another guest piece for Storytellers. Last week we had Betty Rocksteady talk ‘Arachnophile’ and a special midweek post by Rich Hawkins about ‘The Last Outpost’. This week the focus is on Chris Kelso and his excellent book ‘Unger House Radicals’ which came out earlier this year by the wonderful Crowded…
BTB Storytellers episode 4: Betty Rocksteady talks ARACHNOPHILE
Last week we heard from Alan Baxter, talking about his novel ‘Bound’. You can read that here in case you missed it. This week we dive into Bizarro fiction waters! What is Bizarro fiction? Bizarro is a kind of surreal, absurd style of storytelling where pretty much anything goes. The genre continues to grow. Bizarro heavyweights such…
Book review: Marta Martinez Saves The World – Victorya Chase
I love Kaiju books and stories. I loved ‘Pacific Rim’ – yes, it was very silly and cheesy, but come on, giant freakin’ robots fighting giant freakin’ monsters from another dimension. What’s not to like about that? ‘Kaiju Revisited’ is a new series of novellas from Apokrupha about…Kaiju! The first in line is this one…
Book review: Puppet Skin – Danger Slater
It hasn’t been a big year for reading Bizarro fiction for me. Not because I have lost interest, but simply because I have bitten off a bit more than I can chew with my horror reviews and my TBR has spiralled out of control. I’d been hearing a lot about Danger Slater. His previous book…
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