Book review: Jimbo Yojimbo – David W. Barbee

  After slogging through a recent novel I was looking for something a little light-hearted, fun, fast, and a little bit odd, too. I certainly got that with Jimbo Yojimbo by David W. Barbee. I’d enjoyed David’s previous novel, Bacon Fried Bastard, released last year and was only too keen to get my fishy fingers on…

Book review: Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes – Carlton Mellick III

    Reading Carlton Mellick III always makes me feel like I have fallen down a rabbit hole, just like Alice did. One of the most original and entertaining voices out there, Mellick’s prose style is far from lush and poetic, but he has a captivating voice and despite his stories’ obvious weirdness I cannot…

Book review: Bacon Fried Bastard – David W. Barbee

The superb cover art for this book left me in no doubt that I was going to be in for a surreal journey into the mind of author David W. Barbee. ‘Bacon Fried Bastard’ is a very entertaining book and I think that if you are new to Bizarro then this could be one of…

Spiders, art and horror – an interview with Betty Rocksteady

I hope to bring you at least one interview a month in 2017. I love talking to people about their art and I feel like these people deserve a much bigger audience, so let’s see how we go. Last week I spoke with UNNERVING MAGAZINE and today I’m chatting with Betty Rocksteady. Betty is a…

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…