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There is a movement in the literary industry that I thought I'd bring your attention to. Collectively it is known as Bizarro. The literary equivalent of the cult section in the video store, these 책 are brimming with inventiveness that usually circles around the grotesque, creepy, erotic and just plain weird and nasty. Like looking through the eyes of David Lynch when he's having a cheese nightmare, some of the writers that deal in the Bizarro deserve 더 많이 attention. Authors like Carlton Mellick, Wrath James White, Edward Lee and many more, show that novels are not dead and that horror doesn't have to be a diluted toothless monster that is predictable as it is boring. These 'extreme horror' 책 also posses an intelligence within the ideas that can be social, political 또는 psycho. If 당신 like your horror truly disturbing and mind-bending, check out some of these authors and their works.Thank you.
 The contortionist's handbook cover.
The contortionist's handbook cover.
Whilst not in the strictest sense a 'horror' novel, this book is no less disturbing 또는 'get-under-your-skin' creepy. There is no real gore in this book but for what it lacks on the physically damaging it 더 많이 than makes up for in the psychologically demented.
A man spends his life cheated, lying and switching personality as he sees fit. As we meet him,he has taken an overdose and he has to convince a psychiatrist that it wasn't a suicide attempt merely a miscalculation of prescribed drug taking for a headache. The protagonist shouldn't be like-able, but it is to the credit of Clevenger that...
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Carnal Surgery is a collection of short stories that are in turns bleak, brilliant, terrifying, nasty and weirdly moralistic.
These tales are not for the weak of 심장 또는 stomach as they deal with some horrid little topics that are highly enjoyable. Edward Lee's 글쓰기 sucks the reader into each twisted little scenario and makes your skin crawl, makes 당신 think, makes 당신 want to keep on reading, never knowing what will happen 다음 and dreading the 다음 page.
This is real horror. Don't expect happy endings and sugar coated stories of 'likeable' people doing 'nice' things. This is down dirty and nasty.
Highly recommended for horror 팬 with a brain... and a strong constitution.
This is a short short collection 의해 author Norman Partridge. It contains both fiction and non-fiction content all based around the 할로윈 season.

The writer does a very clever and unique thing with this collection as he recalls his childhood, growing up with the classic monsters of the time e.g Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman etc also including the old creepy comic 책 인기 back then and how he and his 프렌즈 used to enjoy the 할로윈 season. From these golden memories he flips it to the the 할로윈 년 when the real bogeyman came out to play; The Zodiac Killer. It's a very interesting...
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Take a gay club add a bunch of zombies and what do 당신 get? This refreshing take on the zombie apocalypse myth. Gone are the stereotypical collection of survivors that we normally get in these stories. There's no ex-military muscle bound hero that saves the 일 with the big guns. The characters here are just regular people, scared and clueless as to what's happening, relying on each other despite their desperate situation. It always makes the story better when 당신 care about what happens to the survivors and that is sometimes forgotten in 책 of this type. Of course there's still the requisite...
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This book deals with the temptation of evil in it's many forms, specifically in this blistering little story's case; greed and lust. Taking place at a strip club at the 나귀, 엉덩이 end of the world Skipp paints a vivid if seedy scene as we meet dead-eyed strippers shaking their bits for money,a bouncer with his eyes set on his future, the owner of the club who deals in favours for drugs, a young man plagued 의해 madness and the lusty cat-calling patrons who pathetically slip dollar bills on stage for just the smallest bit of attention from the girls. These people are already floating in the shallow end...
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This is a human horror story in as much as nothing 수퍼내츄럴 happens but this is indeed a horrific, disturbing tale.
In my opinion, Arthur, the bad guy of this piece stands right up there with some of the 더 많이 well known horror story baddies. We first meet him as a child and already he's twisted little soul which, as we follow him through his life, only gets worse.
Arthur is like a human black-hole where nearly everyone who comes into contact with him ends up damaged 의해 him. But, he is handsome and successful and 더 많이 than able to deflect any notion that he is indeed evil with charm.
The meat...
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Remember when 당신 were a kid and in the dead of night you'd hear a sound? A sound 당신 were convinced came from within your room? Maybe it came from underneath the floorboards, in a big old wardrobe or, even worse,from under your bed? Well if 당신 do remember then this collection of short stories will make those bad memories burst upon your mind with a cringe and send a shiver down your spine.
There are twelve stories here.
'Forgotten' 의해 Jack Wallen: Dylan hears an eerie voice of young girl beckoning him to play a game with her. While he is initially petrified, curiosity and bravery soon overcomes...
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This a short story collection that spans two things that I enjoy 읽기 the most; horror and bizarre.
Although the 제목 of this book alludes to it being all about apocalypses, it is not. While there are some tales here that are about the end of the world, many 더 많이 are very personal takes on the horrific and/or weird.
There are over twenty short stories included. Some of which are, the evolution and destruction of self aware trash puppets. A man who has 아기 mysteriously appear in his apartment. A down- trodden young woman who finds out something disturbing about her father. A man endlessly...
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Technically this is a novella rather than a full length doorstop of a book but it's concise-ness works well in a getting to the point kind of way. A small group of people have survived an Apocalypse and waste their days floundering for purpose in this new abandoned world. Then one 일 a stranger shows up, tells the group about a bar on the end of the world, a Utopian vision of sorts where the well of 에일, 에 일 is never dry then, as mysteriously as he arrives, the stranger disappears and the survivors set out on a road-trip to find this mythical place. This book is beautifully written, as alcohol is used to conjure up memories of the past, of loved-ones 로스트 forever and magic moments gone. There is also horror, suspense and a little violence here making it,overall, a brilliant short book. Thank you.
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This is a collection of short stories, all of them of the horrific kind that deal with the topic of faith in it's many forms from voodoo healing ( a lot of maggots) to a priest out for revenge. Wrath James White is a brutal writer, there is no shirking from the horrid and terrible, he sets out to make your skin crawl as any good horror writer should do. That's not to say that he patronizes 또는 bangs 당신 over the head until 당신 believe what he believes, in fact these stories ( all of them amazing) make 당신 질문 what is right, what is wrong, what is God and how 당신 might figure in the scheme of things. If you've never read of any Wrath White before I would consider starting here but be prepared...this is not an easy read, but it is hugely engrossing, bleak and very entertaining.
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If 당신 like horror short stories 의해 new, interesting authors I recommend the Bizarro Starter Kit books. There are three in all; Blue,Orange and Purple and they are available at Amazon.com among other places. In the U.K 당신 may find it hard to find these 책 at the bookshop(I did) so the web is your best bet and if 당신 enjoy 읽기 things that are strange, horrific and utterly unpredictable, the I would give these 책 a try. Also, 당신 will be introduced to some truly excellent, although rather unknown authors, which is always a good thing. Thank you.
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In 읽기 this 초 volume of Earth ending short stories 당신 will realize just how many ways life as we know it could end. It could make 당신 feel very small and totally useless or, depending on your point of view of society, it could fill 당신 with hope knowing that the end is always near and that maybe if the ever impending apocalypse does happen we can rise from the ruin and try not to make such a mess of the World the 초 time around. Either way read and enjoy yet another fine collection of 'what-if' tales.

Included:
'Jaundice' 의해 Zachary O'Shea: In a world overrun with mold and mildew...
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Even amongst the mounting technology and digital enhancement that dominates the world today myths prevail, whether it be something as abstract as superstition 또는 something as deep-rooted as curses and rituals, people still pass on twisted tales of fairies, goblins, the 언더월드 and the wrath of scorned Gods long forgotten but still ablaze with power. This collection of twelve short stories contain a 십자가, 크로스 section of legends and folklore.

'It Lives With Us' 의해 Thomas James Brown: The small isolated town of Lynnwood offers a idyllic way of life, but each 년 when The Winter Soltice rolls around...
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In this collection of short horror fiction you'll find a little of everything. This book is not really hardcore horror but there is a bit of blood flying around along with deadly paranoia on board a 우주 shuttle, a dark cellar that may contain a yellow eyed monster with teeth and a uncertain afterlife for a cancer patient. The stories are all very well written and edited and I read this entire collection in one day. It was thoroughly entertaining and some of the stories give me a little shiver with some genuinely inventive and unique takes on horror.
There's bound to be something in here for any kind of horror fan, no matter your tastes. It was also nice to read some authors that I had never read before and it spurred me on to discover 더 많이 about them and their other works.
This is an ebook and relatively cheap for the quality of the story telling on show. I would recommend picking this up and if 당신 do I doubt you'll be disappointed.
Being a 팬 of extreme horror I had high hopes for this collection. I haven't read anything 의해 John Putignano before so I was also excited to find a new horror author that I can follow in the future. Happily I have.

This book is a collection of short stories all based 또는 somehow revolving around the concepts of Hell, demons, Satan 또는 dark taboo's. From necrophilia to cannibalism, madness, possession, Satanic rituals and murder all feature along with added oddities like harmonious frogs, strange medical conditions and even a quick mention of Horror Hero H.P.Lovecraft. Despite the relative narrowness...
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The subject of 늑대인간 is a classic in horror. It has been covered from many angles, some good, some bad, depending on your tastes in horror. 레이 Garton takes the fur-ball myth in a new direction in these two 책 making the thing that turns a human into a werewolf a kind of STD. Being bit 의해 a furry wont change you. Being shagged 의해 one will. Also gone is the old 'full moon change' business. The 늑대 in these stories change wherever and whenever they feel like it, and Garten goes into glorious detail at how the sound of cartilage pops and 본즈 snap,fur sprouts and long fangs run with...
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Meat is a weird little novel. Set in a distopian world where meat is all...everybody eats meat, everyone works at the slaughterhouse, everyone trembles before the all powerful owner of the meat factory...all, that is except for one man. Despite the fact that he is a talented slaughter-man and is held in high regard in his little town, his conscience weighs on him forcing him to rise up against the tyrants of the town and he begin to sympathize with the weird mutant/monsters that are being breed and killed for this mysterious meat that people eat without question.
Although this book is somewhat fantastical, it's closeness to reality is all too noticeable and uncomfortable. Do we 질문 where meat comes from,how it gets on our own table? Well don't be surprised if,after 읽기 this brilliant,complex, well-written and engaging book, 당신 cannot look at a 돼지 고기, 돼지 갈비, 돼지 야 the same again.
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