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Breaking Bizarro
"Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird, and entertaining works." - Wikipedia.
Breaking Bizarro is a twenty-six story melting pot of weirdness, from some of the best authors in the genre. Enjoy!
Contributing Authors: John Wayne Comunale, David W. Barbee, Patrick C. Harrison III, Chris Miller, J.D. Graves, Dani Brown, Cody Higgins, Frank J. Edler, Catherine J. Cole, Chandler Morrison, G. Arthur Brown, Shoshana Sumrall Frerking, Robert Essig, Mara Malins, Michael Brueggeman, Duncan P. Bradshaw, Brian Asman, Sam Richard, Elana Gomel, Porsche B. Yeary, Mike Sherer, C.C. Parker, Luciano Marano, C.J. Carter-Stephenson, Kyle Rader, and James Dorr.
Breaking Bizarro is a twenty-six story melting pot of weirdness, from some of the best authors in the genre. Enjoy!
Contributing Authors: John Wayne Comunale, David W. Barbee, Patrick C. Harrison III, Chris Miller, J.D. Graves, Dani Brown, Cody Higgins, Frank J. Edler, Catherine J. Cole, Chandler Morrison, G. Arthur Brown, Shoshana Sumrall Frerking, Robert Essig, Mara Malins, Michael Brueggeman, Duncan P. Bradshaw, Brian Asman, Sam Richard, Elana Gomel, Porsche B. Yeary, Mike Sherer, C.C. Parker, Luciano Marano, C.J. Carter-Stephenson, Kyle Rader, and James Dorr.
- GenresHorror
320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 7, 2019
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Patrick C. Harrison III
45 books815 followersPatrick C. Harrison III (PC3, if you prefer) is an author of horror, splatterpunk, and all forms of speculative fiction. His current publications include GRANDPAPPY, A SAVAGE BREED, VAMPIRE NUNS BEHIND BARS, 5 TALES THAT WILL LAND YOU IN HELL, among others, and his works can be found in numerous anthologies, including AND HELL FOLLOWED and ROAD KILL: TEXAS HORROR BY TEXAS AUTHORS VOL. 4.
PC3 is the Splatterpunk Award-winning editor (with Jarod Barbee) of AND HELL FOLLOWED, and has edited several other anthologies. He is a freelance editor, having done work for notable authors like Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe, Mark Towse, Rebecca Rowland, and many others.
PC3 also has a FREE substack, in which he frequently does movie reviews and updates readers on his fiction. Check out pc3horror.substack.com.
PC3 is the Splatterpunk Award-winning editor (with Jarod Barbee) of AND HELL FOLLOWED, and has edited several other anthologies. He is a freelance editor, having done work for notable authors like Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe, Mark Towse, Rebecca Rowland, and many others.
PC3 also has a FREE substack, in which he frequently does movie reviews and updates readers on his fiction. Check out pc3horror.substack.com.
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October 16, 2021
‘The Good, the Bad and the downright Weird’
This anthology consisted of an assortment of 26 shortish Bizarro stories that contained a little something for everyone to simply enjoy.
As I rated 16 tales as being 4/5 and the vast majority of the others as 3’s then I consider this collection to offer real value for money as well as being a great introduction to the wacky, absurd and surreal visions often found in the wonderful world that is Bizarro.
The Good - six of the best:
No. 2 - ‘Moobs’ - beware of foreign bodies falling from Space.
No. 12 - Love - Honor - Cherish - a couple desperate for youngsters.
No. 15 - I Got A Hole In My Belly - against all the odds, just trying to ‘accept and move on’.
No. 16 - The Eye In The Sky - technology to help us go.
No. 20 - MP 3-D - monsters, mayhem and madness.
No. 22 - Divine Contact - A Trinity - three examples of just a touch too far.
The Weird - guaranteed in every story, but vastly different examples of the strange and the freaky.
The Bad - only two or three which were truly beyond me. They were…well, I suppose that you’ll just have to read the book to find out!
Generally, a great, fun experience and I will most certainly be reading more from these authors.
Highly enjoyable and complete escapism.
Rating: 4.2 bright stars of complete abnormality.
This anthology consisted of an assortment of 26 shortish Bizarro stories that contained a little something for everyone to simply enjoy.
As I rated 16 tales as being 4/5 and the vast majority of the others as 3’s then I consider this collection to offer real value for money as well as being a great introduction to the wacky, absurd and surreal visions often found in the wonderful world that is Bizarro.
The Good - six of the best:
No. 2 - ‘Moobs’ - beware of foreign bodies falling from Space.
No. 12 - Love - Honor - Cherish - a couple desperate for youngsters.
No. 15 - I Got A Hole In My Belly - against all the odds, just trying to ‘accept and move on’.
No. 16 - The Eye In The Sky - technology to help us go.
No. 20 - MP 3-D - monsters, mayhem and madness.
No. 22 - Divine Contact - A Trinity - three examples of just a touch too far.
The Weird - guaranteed in every story, but vastly different examples of the strange and the freaky.
The Bad - only two or three which were truly beyond me. They were…well, I suppose that you’ll just have to read the book to find out!
Generally, a great, fun experience and I will most certainly be reading more from these authors.
Highly enjoyable and complete escapism.
Rating: 4.2 bright stars of complete abnormality.
May 21, 2021
A great smattering of some Bizarro tales--this runs the gamut from the surreal and serious to the wacky and weird. Collecting some up-and-coming authors with some mainstays and some that I haven't heard before.
I've always tended towards the more humorous works in Bizarro, and luckily this anthology is a good balance.
I've always tended towards the more humorous works in Bizarro, and luckily this anthology is a good balance.
January 5, 2021
This is an anthology, so my 4 stars doesn't go to every piece. To be honest, there's a couple I would 1-star, but there's also many I would give 3-4 stars, and an exciting number of 5 star-ers in here - exciting especially because many are by authors I've never read before. The highlights include (and as tradition goes, not limited to) bad-ass chickens, a blimminy-blop (the world needs more blimminy-blops), the world of the dead overrun with the living, and flesh-melting architecture.
A body-horror fan would probably enjoy this anthology even more than I did.
A body-horror fan would probably enjoy this anthology even more than I did.
February 17, 2020
As with any anthology, some stories are more to my liking than others, but the majority here are bizarrely wonderful.
My tastes lean toward bizarro that has some grounding in reality before flying off into the clouds. That said, here are the highlights for me.
I really liked Chandler Morrison’s heartbreaking bizarro, Reptile.
Mister Frank J. Edler’s Dawn of the Night of the Dying Alive skillfully merges horror, fantasy, and humour in a bizarro package.
Brian Asman adds strange sci fi to the anthology.
Sam Richard wins on title alone with We Have Always Lived in the Jiffy Lube.
Kyle Rader’s Ingrown brings the grossout factor, then John Wayne Comunale takes it home with ... something. Not sure what.
My tastes lean toward bizarro that has some grounding in reality before flying off into the clouds. That said, here are the highlights for me.
I really liked Chandler Morrison’s heartbreaking bizarro, Reptile.
Mister Frank J. Edler’s Dawn of the Night of the Dying Alive skillfully merges horror, fantasy, and humour in a bizarro package.
Brian Asman adds strange sci fi to the anthology.
Sam Richard wins on title alone with We Have Always Lived in the Jiffy Lube.
Kyle Rader’s Ingrown brings the grossout factor, then John Wayne Comunale takes it home with ... something. Not sure what.
January 29, 2021
I have to be honest and say that I found this book to be very weird, which I know is the actual point of it, but with my reading habits being ostly focused on regular horror this was a book which instead of reading in one sitting was a 'grab bag' which I read random stories from when time and mood allowed.
There's a wide scope in Bizarro, I wasn't aware just how wide until reading this, and it's actually left me with the overall desire to read more in this sub genre.
Whether like me you are new to it, or if it is something you're already deep into I don't think you can go wrong with this collection.
There's a wide scope in Bizarro, I wasn't aware just how wide until reading this, and it's actually left me with the overall desire to read more in this sub genre.
Whether like me you are new to it, or if it is something you're already deep into I don't think you can go wrong with this collection.
October 27, 2019
This anthology is full of oddities, from the fun and humorous to the gross and disturbing.
With so many different styles and topics, you are bound to find some winners, even if not all stories are your cup of tea.
For me, "Cat-Skinner Sweet and the Twirling Teacups of Deadwood" by James Dorr wins Best Voice, "Dawn of the Night of the Dying Alive" by Frank J. Edler wins Best Original Concept Squeezed out of a Trope, and "The Thing with Chickens" by Shoshana Sumrall Frerking wins Best Fan Fiction Adaptation Ever.
Go ahead and read this anthology of the bizarre, and find your own winners.
With so many different styles and topics, you are bound to find some winners, even if not all stories are your cup of tea.
For me, "Cat-Skinner Sweet and the Twirling Teacups of Deadwood" by James Dorr wins Best Voice, "Dawn of the Night of the Dying Alive" by Frank J. Edler wins Best Original Concept Squeezed out of a Trope, and "The Thing with Chickens" by Shoshana Sumrall Frerking wins Best Fan Fiction Adaptation Ever.
Go ahead and read this anthology of the bizarre, and find your own winners.
September 28, 2024
Okay so this thing ranges from gross to disturbing. A real mish-mash of genres all teetering on the edge. Stories by Chandler Morrison, brian Asman, J.D. Graves, are standouts.
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