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The Bride of Trash
Wizzer Whale has a problem. He’s madly in love with a headless corpse he found in the trash behind his junk shop; but that's not the problem. The problem is the corpse — named Elsa, after his dead wife — displays a distressing tendency to slaughter anyone in Wizzer’s path. A job in a freak show only fans the flames of Elsa’s murderous impulses, and soon the two are pursued by a raging mob, a pair of bumbling hoods, an unstoppable reporter, and a homicidally jealous puppet.
- GenresHorror
167 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 2005
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December 2, 2022
In the 2000s Bizarro was in its infancy, the rules had not been codified, and some people didn't even acknowledge the genre. In that period a short burst of flame named Mike Segretto existed as a fiction writer. He only published four short books, but boy, were they doozies.
Where usually bizarro starts with rational characters who are suddenly afflicted with the weird, and once that happens they also begin to act without logic, you always know within a chapter that you are in an object of pure imagination and rules no longer apply to anything. Not quite with Segretto.
He usually establishes a weird, but at the same time believable character, and then once that's done he adds the bizarre situation. The thing there is, the character always responds the way THAT CHARACTER logically would. In this case Junk salesman Whizzer Whale. You always get pulled back to that character's weird, but not implausible base reality as they navigate the book. For the right reader, it's incredibly effective and funny as hell.
Segretto's works were not for everyone, but he is surely a lost hero of a genre that also isn't for everyone.
Mike, if you still check your reviews, please get these books re-published on a small press, and even better yet, write some new stuff, because your work was totally unique and the world is missing out on there not being more of it.
Where usually bizarro starts with rational characters who are suddenly afflicted with the weird, and once that happens they also begin to act without logic, you always know within a chapter that you are in an object of pure imagination and rules no longer apply to anything. Not quite with Segretto.
He usually establishes a weird, but at the same time believable character, and then once that's done he adds the bizarre situation. The thing there is, the character always responds the way THAT CHARACTER logically would. In this case Junk salesman Whizzer Whale. You always get pulled back to that character's weird, but not implausible base reality as they navigate the book. For the right reader, it's incredibly effective and funny as hell.
Segretto's works were not for everyone, but he is surely a lost hero of a genre that also isn't for everyone.
Mike, if you still check your reviews, please get these books re-published on a small press, and even better yet, write some new stuff, because your work was totally unique and the world is missing out on there not being more of it.
March 13, 2008
This is about a junk shop owner named Wizzer that finds a decapitated body in his front yeard. He brings her in, puts a mannequin head on her and starts a relationship with her (don't worry it is consentual).
Mike Segretto is one of my favorite authors.
Mike Segretto is one of my favorite authors.
June 16, 2008
One of the funniest books I've read!
June 29, 2013
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