“Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.” —Bradley Sands, author of TV Snorted My Brain Within the whacked-out worlds of these twisted tales, only one thing remains the same: Everything is better when laced with the tears of a clown… When a sexually adventurous couple decides to spice things up by bringing bees into the mix, they learn it’s never wise to dial 811 in case of an emergency. A deadbeat dad gains employment as a lady-in-waiting in a fairytale bromance where every character looks exactly like someone else from John Carpenter’s The Thing. The unknowing victim of a cruel prank, a simpleton spends his entire life waiting on a park bench for the hottest girl in school. Using only his twenty-sided die and good old-fashioned D&D magic, a man must continually resurrect the neighborhood kid regularly murdered on his own front lawn. An aging slaughterhouse worker and the iconic figure from Edvard Munch’s The Scream hit the clubs every weekend in a vain attempt to get laid. These and many more absurdities await in Clown Tear Junkies, the debut collection from Douglas Hackle.

Clown Tear Junkies

Literature & Fiction

Hackle, Douglas

Humor & Satire

Rooster Republic Press

Strange things happen in the parts of Wisconsin where nobody is looking. Catspaw is one of those parts.After his car crashes in Catspaw, Renny watches his girlfriend, Sera, dragged away by men wearing severed cow heads as masks. He follows them into the snow-soaked wasteland of Wisconsin and slips face-first into a sordid underworld of vicious farmers. He fights to overcome his innate inability to do anything right, but can only watch helplessly as Sera is eaten alive, the first sacrifice for the resurrection of a forgotten god of agriculture - Bovikraaga. She will not be the last...

Cattle Cult Kill Kill

Johnson, MP

Genre Fiction

"Archelon Ranch is a metafictional thrill ride on a wild gilawalrus, as merciless in its critique of narrative privilege as it is to its characters. Pay your money, take your chance, keep your concept of the self inside the vehicle at all times. The management is not responsible for personae that are lost or mangled.” -Scott Nicolay, World Fantasy Award Winner, author of Ana Kai Tangata Je ne suis pas un chapeau. Je suis un homme... In an overgrown, primeval, jungle-city state, Bernard is a test subject for science experiments. His father and Professor Sagramour have been injecting him with hallucinogenic mud and reality affirming drugs so that one day man will be immune to the insanity inducing, zombifying sentient green mud that is choking the suburbs. But Bernard is beginning to display side effects. Experiencing greater and greater levels of Objectivity cause his consciousness to become one with entities as diverse as pterosaurs and martinis. In the mind of the tyrannosaurus he hears the call of Archelon Ranch, a primal paradise like no other. Will Bernard's unique talents be enough to get him out of the senseless prehistoric cyberpunk city or will dinosaurs, Sagramour's Standardizers and the desire to lose himself in other entities be too much?

Archelon Ranch

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Cook, Garrett

Science Fiction

The Exterminating Angel is the first in the RoosterVision series, which presents personal analysis alongside critical discussion of films that have had everlasting impacts on authors and their work. Luis Buñuel's masterpiece, The Exterminating Angel, which he co-wrote and directed, is a dark, surrealist satire. When guests arrives for a dinner party at a lavish home, they soon discover that they cannot leave, and slowly give way to violent and carnal impulses. Burned furniture, murder, and witchcraft were never supposed to be on the evening's agenda...

Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel: a personal analysis (RoosterVision)

Humor & Entertainment

HOOK, ANDREW

Movies

"Syntactically immaculate." - Jeremy Robert Johnson, Author of Skullcrack City The Korean War. It lasted three years. Or it never ended. Probably one of those. Maybe it ran as long as the ratings were high. Monroe’s an army doctor who just wants to know what’s going on: why the days seem to repeat, why his C.O. is mentioning the VC in 1951, why his houseboy is a kimchee zombie, why there’s a parasitic mollusk up his nose. His compatriots Trip and Lee are no help, when one seems psychopathic and the other becomes convinced he doesn’t really exist. In fact, there’s something wrong with Monroe’s entire world and only a trip into the art-obsessed mind of God can provide any answers. If God forgets the plot, who is left to make sure the story has an end?

The Long Night of the Eternal Korean War

Brown, G. Arthur

SEE! the Ipsissimus Arachnus, the wall-crawling, occult commando unit BEHOLD! the Catholic church which changes into an automaton GAZE! upon self-love via a meta, sci-fi epistolary GIRD YOUR LOINS! for Charles Austin Muir’s debut collection, an unfiltered and utterly gonzo mutation of short fiction. A satire of satire, Bodybuilding Spider Rangers and Other Stories will surprise even the most seasoned readers of the absurd. “Highly satirical. Massively funny. Strangely positive.” –Jeff O’Brien, author of the BigBoobenstein series and Journey to the Center of the Flat Earth “…synonymous with muscles and madness.” –G. Arthur Brown, author of God’s Mean Older Brother and The Long Night of the Eternal Korean War “A surreal and gorgeously sleazy military masterpiece; swollen with pop-culture references and jacked-up on steroids…” –Chris Kelso, author of The Black Dog Eats the City

Body Building Spider Rangers: And Other Stories

Muir, Charles Austin

What happens when all the genres of music personified do battle for the fate of humankind? A comic book style action-adventure rock and roll extravaganza!When Clear Channel Radio sends out the "Superfan Pulse" to turn all of their listeners into insane recruits for their clone army, it's up to the Rock and Roll Death Patrol to set things right! Featuring: Gothkid, with the eerie and emotive powers of darkness; Metaldude, whose shredding can shatter walls; HipHopCalypse, the rapper whose words take on real forms; Riotgrrl, the punk-rock chick with mad tech skills and no boundaries. Along with their mentor Tonk, one of the original outlaw musical heroes, they must stop the pop soldiers before all culture is homogenized into eternal blandness!

Rock and Roll Death Patrol

Rose, Michael Allen

Fantasy

STORIES BY: Joanna Roye, G.G. Silverman, Stacey Bell, Amy Easton, K.P. Kulski, S.M. Ketcham, E.E. Florence, Briana McGuckin, Annie Neugebauer, Kayleigh Barber, Sam Fleming, Hailey Piper, J.H. Moncrieff, Jessica McHugh, Jennifer Loring, Joanna Koch, Angela Sylvaine, J.C. Raye, Christa Carmen, Juliana Spink Mills, Leslie Wibberley

NOT ALL MONSTERS: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror

Bell, Stacey

McHugh, Jessica

Roye, Joanna

Silverman, G.G.

Easton, Amy

Kulski, K.P.

Ketcham, S.M.

Florence, E.E.

McGuckin, Briana

Literary

In 16th century Hungary, there is a story about rage and powerlessness, of beauty and death. A story that not only belongs to the Countess Ersz bet B thory but to every woman. Hoping to leave behind a lonely and abusive childhood, the witch Dorottya sets out to find a new life outside of her solitary woods.Ugliest I've ever seen.Habsburg Emperors play puppet of the Hungarian nobles while the Ottoman Sultans encroach ever closer. War and cruelty are ways of life. Women borrow power with their youth and desirability, like nobility and riches, a waning commodity that only some are lucky to have.They'll see and hate you. Everyone will hate you.Unable to escape the memory of her dead mother, Dorottya discovers a new voice that promises her everything she's ever wanted.Horrid to look upon.With the falling-sickness worsening, Lady B thory becomes desperate for power over her own life, crashing headlong into rages and violent outlets. Pretty castle maids go missing leaving behind collections of blood-soaked linens.Make me perfect.As years pass, all of S rv r town knows that the castle overlooking their homes is a place that swallows the lives of young women.Even the beautiful Anna knows that, but she has as secret and a deep need to find out the truth.

Fairest Flesh

Bram Stoker Award-winner Sara Tantlinger delivers her Cradleland of Parasites, a harrowing and darkly gorgeous collection of poetry, chronicling the death and devastation of one of history's greatest horrors: The Black Plague.

Cradleland of Parasites

Tantlinger, Sara

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