Turdmummy

by Zoltan Komor

It's one of those days again: you discover tiny egyptian pyramids and slaves in your stool, and soon, you give birth to a Fecal-Pharaoh, that is cursed... Yeah, it's one of those days again. Heroine addict babies crawl onto your body, and you become a superhero - sure, the girls dig your new infant-muscles, but you must keep up with the little crying bastards drug hunger. Yup, that shitty day again, when your wife calls for the police and the operator tells her that an officer will arrive in 9 months, and a few weeks later, your woman discovers that she is pregnant with a tiny police man that beats your stick with a baton every time you wanna get intimate with her.
Action, drama and holy fucking fecal matter! Join Turdmummy, the Foreskin-Golem, Craphouse Christ, the fat Chirstmas-tree mermaid, Prostate-Yeti and Tampon-Steed in a messy, surreal fight against good taste.

Genres: Bizarro Fiction

65 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 27, 2016

About the author

Zoltán Komor was born in June 14, 1986 and lives in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He writes surreal short stories and published in several literary magazines (Wilderness House Literary Review; Drabblecast; The Phantom Drift; Gone Lawn; Bizarro Central; Caliban Online; Bizarrocast; Thrice Fiction Magazine; The Missing Slate; The Gap-Toothed Madness; Kafka Review, etc.) and anthologies (Unity, Volume 1: A Magical Realism Charity Anthology benefiting Doctors without Borders; The Horror Collection: Emerald Edition, etc.).

His first English book, titled Flamingos in the Ashtray: 25 Bizarro Short Stories, was released by Burning Bulb Publishing in 2014, his second English book, titled Tumour-djinn was released by MorbidbookS in the same year, and his third collection, Turdmummy was released by StrangeHouse Books in 2016.

In 2020 his short story titled "Mall-Head" won The Monolith Prize in Hungary.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought this would be better.

[Simon McHardy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to lick Zoltan's brain and ingest whatever he's been popping.

[Matthew Clarke · Rating 4 out of 5]

TurdMummy. As you might expect with a name like that, there’s a whole lot to unpack.

TurdMummy is an anthology that is filled with some of the most bizarrely hilarious creatures I would never have known of had I not peeked into Zoltan’s mind.

There were a couple of stories that didn’t resonate so well well with me, but the rest more than made up for it. Personal favourites were the titular TurdMummy, Dead Coffin, Christmas Tree Bukkake, and The Heroin Baby Man.

[Andrew Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a 3.5 star review.

Komor's Turdmummy is an incredibly surreal, edibly disgusting, darkly violent, and grossly funny collection of short stories. My favorites were the title story "Turdmummy," "Requiem for an Ass," "Tampon-Steed," and "Dead Coffin." Though, "Tampon-Steed" is the story that has stayed vibrant in my head for weeks now.

While I loved some of the stories in this collection (and it is worth buying / reading for those stories alone), not all of them worked as well. But I'm finding this is more and more the case whenever I read story collections these days.

Overall, if you don't mind stories saturated in shit, then Turdmummy is the collection for you.

[Jeremy Maddux · Rating 1 out of 5]

Zoltan Komor is usually full of talent in terms of raw imagination. I don't know why he didn't bring it with this one, other than the possibility that he dumbed his style down in order to accomodate the very watered down version of Strangehouse Books that every few years, manages to publish something new. Flamingos in the Ashtray and Tumour Djinn are far better examples of this guy's ability.