Strangewood Tales

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Eraserhead Pr

Join The Man and his Nemesis, the obese tabby, for a nightmare roller coaster ride into this postmodern history.  Take Alice in Wonderland, Dark City, and Pilgrim's Progress. Put them in a blender with a lot of dry ice. Mix and serve in a dirty, broken glass. And that's just the first chapter of Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged.  This postmodern fable examines the need for myth, metaphor and identity. The story satirizes many of our everyday obsessions, including the pursuit of wealth and materialism; the thirst for empty spectacles and violence; and the need for obtaining social status. This absurd tale will delight you in the tradition of Camus' The Stranger and Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged

Sakowski, Vincent W.

Humor & Satire

Szmonhfu

Chimera, Hertzan

A grand epic wasteland of surreal pandemic plague. Pollution quotient in the southern delta nether regions of the state of Louisiana, the dustbin of the Mississippi river and the nation, whose motto is the "Sportsman's Paradise" but is a paradise of colorful denizens all grappling for a slice of lassez bon temps roule, "let the good times roll", but now all are grappling for their very lives. Nature had to fight back sooner or later, and now what will happen to this tourist state gone amuck with middle-ages plague?

Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear

Korn, M. F.

The twisted and surreal version of the story of Jesus Christ set in a bizarre version of modern day Earth that has been ravaged by war and cannibal zombie plagues, where the landscape is slowly mutating into meat and human flesh is transforming into machine. The novel follows Christ's twelve apostles. However, in this world the apostles are pimps, necrophiliacs, skinheads, and other assorted freaks. And they have no desire to follow Jesus Christ on his crusade to save humanity whatsoever. So this novel follows the lives of these never-been apostles on their separate epic journeys into the bizarre. An awkward and chaotic work of art that is like nothing you've ever seen.

Electric Jesus Corpse

Mellick III, Carlton

Contemporary

In this new collection of fictions-a handful of small tales and two novellas-Michael Hemmingson retains his notorious status as the subversive prince of the avant-pop; or, as stated in The American Book Review, "one of the reckless youths of a quick and dirty literature." Sex, drugs, Raymond Carver's ghost, Barbie dolls loving GI Joe dolls, the pure vaginas of French girls, the un-pure vagina of Kathy Acker, crack whores, nutty neighbors, scatological girlfriends, iniquitous fiends, Jesus freaks, pornographers, pushers, movers, shakers and winning lottery tickets are just some of the topics found in this unique book that is certain to titillate and aggravate the finest minds of the 21st Century.

My Dream Date (Rape) With Kathy Acker

Hemmingson, Michael

HIDEOUS BEAUTIES is a collection of a dozen outrageous fictions, each based on a photograph, painting, sketch, collage, or assemblage by an equally outrageous artist (Hans Bellmer, Ed Kienholz, Joel-Peter Witkin, et alia), that explores the amphibious edge where language and image splice. 
Death is a village of mermaids, suburbia a hunchbacked dwarf at the door who just won't go away, identity a self that can't stop cleaving, millennial sex a radical form of digestion. 
In other words, Lance Olsen is at it again, and with a vengeance, inviting us into his absurd, unsettling, tender, and formally disruptive fever-dream worlds so that we might wake up, and wake up changed.

Hideous Beauties

Olsen, Lance

Olsen, Andi

The surreal tale of a multi-gendered fuck-toy purchased by a razor dominatrix and brought into her nightmarish world of bizarre sex and mutilation.

Razor Wire Pubic Hair

A collection of four short novels/long novellas by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic whores, abused robots, Lolitas, conmen, robber barons, oilfield and nuclear blue collar white trash, schizophrenic aliens, video oulaws, rednecks, thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants and good country people all carving out a piece of desperate living for themselves. Each of the four novels/novellas has a separate introduction by established writing colleagues of M F Korn. The Man Who Loved in Light Years: A drug-addled philosophy professor stalks a pheromone Lolita through known space. Movietone Mars: Cinema is illegal-Movie stars purged-everyone has his own television show. Tilting Planet (trouble with xenodes): terran shrinks sent to cure schizophrenic artistic alien race, but who caused the outbreak? Galactic smut merchants: alien pornography -something new for grunts on mining planets-also to conquer terran pay-per-view market"

All the Mutant Trash in All the Galaxies

MY FLING WITH BETTY PAGE: Imagine a world where the Japanese retaliate in the 1940s by dropping their own twin A-bombs on Los Angeles and San Diego. Welcome to The Bubble: a self-contained universe created by that blast known as Los Diegos, where everything is five minutes away, no one ages, and no one dies. Imagine you're a private eye hired to find the rare Betty Page stamp, but stumbling on the truth of reality, and the interdimensional aliens who wish to destroy it. A response to Alfred Jarry's final and unpublished novel of pataphysics, My Fling With Betty Page asks the question: "Do you ever feel that somewhere, somehow, a duck is secretly watching you?" and even gives the answer. YELLOW #10: Meet twin sisters Susan and Sharon, extracted straight out of Disney's The Parent Trap (itself extracted from German children's author Erich Kastner's Das Doppelte Lottchen). Unlike Disney's series of self-congratulatingly "uproarious" sequels starring Hayley Mills, Yellow #10 catches those rascally Baby Boomer twins full in the throes of a 1990s-style adolescent identity crisis, where anti-depressants, confessional poetry, cry-for-help suicides, and the constipated rhythms of pre-teen sex are set to the sticky-sweet backbeat of pre-millennial pop music.

My Fling With Betty Page/Yellow 10

Dodge, Trevor

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