From the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick III, award-winning author of Quicksand House and Cuddly Holocaust, comes a “kaiju” tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack. The creature was finally dead. After months of fighting it, trying desperately to stop it as it rampaged across the American countryside, turning… Read More New Release: THE BIG MEAT by Carlton Mellick III
“Beautiful, mysterious, and surreal, Kirsten Alene’s MOON SNAKE is a perfect gem of a book. Luminous and sublime.” – Jeff VanderMeer Eraserhead Press is proud to announce the release of MOON SNAKE by Kirsten Alene. In this two-novella collection, you will be transported through surreal landscapes of avocado houses, talking mastiffs and dream ships and… Read More New Release: MOON SNAKE by Kirsten Alene
From the author of Dungeons & Drag Queens comes a fierce bizarro tale of dinosaur-riding realness. Ivanna Deflower’s chance at drag superstardom passed her by long ago. She has resigned herself to a normal life raising her son with her ex-wife while occasionally hosting Sunday morning drag queen bingo. And she’s fine with that. She really is.… Read More New Release: Drag Queen Dino Fighters by MP Johnson
Last year, for the first time in a decade, Eraserhead Press opened its doors to unsolicited submissions. It was an overwhelming success! We discovered superb work from writers who were new to us as well as authors who we’ve loved for a long time. So, we’ve decided to do it again! If you have written a… Read More Eraserhead Press Announces Open Call for Submissions
Carlton Mellick III, the godfather of bizarro fiction, is back with a tribute to the unintentionally terrifying children’s commercials of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Only Petey remembers the Fruit Fun cereal commercials of the 1980s. He remembers how warped and disturbing they were. He remembers the lumpy-shaped cartoon children sitting around a breakfast table, eating… Read More New Release: Spider Bunny by Carlton Mellick III
This spring, we are hatching a unique hard-boiled crime story by Michael Allen Rose, Embry: Hard-boiled. A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who’s wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Life’s tough for an “embry.” Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, chicken… Read More New Release: Embry Hard-boiled by Michael Allen Rose
The Orphanarium is a surreal dystopian novel reminiscent of early bizarro works like Lost in Cat Brain Land by Cameron Pierce and Sea of the Patchwork Cats by Carlton Mellick III, as well as the poetic dreamscapes of Richard Brautigan and Hayao Miyazaki. Here is us. We are here in the Orphanarium. Think: a city in a massive box,… Read More New Release: The Orphanarium by Shane Cartledge
