The Bizarre Bazaar: Riot! At the Fairy Zoo

by Daniel Nayeri, Emanuel Wiemans (Illustrator)

Enter the Bizarre Bazaar, a chilling graphic novel series sure to startle, shock, and scare you! In this terrifying tale, a boy finds himself trapped in a Fairyland zoo with no way out.
 
Eleven-year-old Santiago does not play well with others. He's arrogant, rude, and selfish―both on and off the soccer field. And he sees no reason to change. He’s a winner, after all.
 
But following a run-in with Babs and Bruno, the mysterious merchants of the Bizarre Bazaar, Santi learns that not every game is his to win. It takes only one hum on a shoplifted kazoo, and Santi is magically transported to a zoo in a frightening alternate world called Fairyland. The other inhabitants―vicious Fair Folk, flying monkeys, a not-so-sweet Candy Elf, and more―have it out for him. And then there’s the talkative younger girl who insists he’s her boyfriend! 
 
Santi is desperate to find a way home. But to escape, he’ll have to learn to be part of a team. Otherwise, he’ll be trapped in the fairy zoo forever…
  
Reader, In this spine-tingling graphic novel series, nothing is ever as it seems!
 Discover more tales passing strange from the Bizarre Bazaar―and read in any order! 
The Bazaar Mirror Town
The Bazaar Down a Dark Path

152 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 2, 2027

About the author

Daniel Nayeri is a writer and editor in New York City. He wrote and produced The Cult of Sincerity, the first feature film to be world-premiered by YouTube. He has had all kinds of jobs around books, including book repairman, literary agent, used bookstore clerk, children's librarian, Official Story-Time Reader Leader, editor, copy-editor, and even carpenter (making bookshelves). He's also a professional pastry chef. He loves Street Fighter 2, hates the word "foodie," and is an award-winning stuntman.

Daniel and his sister/co-writer Dina were both born in Iran and spent many young adult years in Europe. There they learned several languages between them and tried Frosted Flakes for the first time.