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New Bizarro Fiction: Discover the Weird and Unmissable

Hey there, fellow fans of the bizarre and the unconventional! It’s been a wild ride since our last website update, and damn, have we got some exciting news to share. We’ve been busy curating a collection of mind-bending tales that will take you on a journey through the extraordinary and the downright weird. Let’s dive in.

What’s Coming Up:

September 2023 – Vampire of the Sun by S.T. Cartlegde

Imagine welcoming a new baby, only to find that a vampire infant from outer space crash-landed in your backyard. Yes, you read that right. Vampire of the Sun takes parenthood to the next level with a slice-of-life drama that explores the meaning of family in the most unusual circumstances. Get ready for a tale that’ll leave you questioning what it truly means to hold on to the ones you love, even when the odds are astronomically stacked against you. Preorder now!

October 2023 РThe Overlooked by Simon Or̩ Molina (Illustrated by Roman Dirge)

Remember The Overlook Hotel? It’s not done haunting your nightmares. Join Teddy and Hellen Grady, two sisters who’ve made the haunted hotel their home. This unique tale unveils the mystery of a little blond boy who shouldn’t be there and the chilling secrets that lurk in the hotel’s shadows. The Overlooked is a must-read for grownups who revel in the strange and the uncanny. Preorder now!

November 2023 – Why I Married a Clown Girl from the Dimension of Death by Carlton Mellick III

Step right up to a romantic comedy like no other! Why I Married a Clown Girl from the Dimension of Death takes your average fear of clowns and turns it into a rollercoaster of love and terror. Timothy’s phobia is the only thing keeping him alive in a world overrun by deadly clowns. But when he falls for the cute and sweet clown girl Puppy Caterpillars, he soon realizes that his nightmares might be closer to reality than he thought. Preorder coming soon!

What You Might’ve Missed:

July 2023 – Glass Children by Carlton Mellick III

The Glass Children, delicate and fragile, are shaping the future of our world. Literally. These beings made of glass are emotionally and physically as delicate as they come. Dive into a thought-provoking journey that questions what happens when a society adjusts to accommodate the most delicate among us. Buy now!

June 2023 – Echo by John Urbancik

Echo takes you through a mirror into a world of charcoal, chalk, and neon. Magic intertwines with pathos as two stories echo each other, revealing different outcomes in the same locations. A through-the-looking-glass story that will keep you hooked from page one. Buy now!

May 2023 – You Always Try to Kill Me in Your Dreams by Carlton Mellick III

Dreams are supposed to be safe, right? Not for Elias, who’s thrust into a world where dreams can be deadly. A thrilling journey awaits you in a post-pandemic world filled with the tension of surviving not just reality, but the nightmares that come with it. Buy now!

April 2023 – Little Miss Apocalypse by Danger Slater

Teens, prom, and a missile hidden in a girl’s… well, you’ll have to read it to find out! Little Miss Apocalypse is a wicked blend of teen rom-com and the bizarre, where irreverence meets coming-of-age in the most hilarious ways. Buy now!

October 2022 – The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair by Carlton Mellick III

Meet the girl who’s part human, part monster, and all captivating. The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair is a story of love and vengeance, where a broken soul will do whatever it takes to hold onto the very thing that terrifies her. Buy now!

May 2022 – Goblins on the Other Side by Carlton Mellick III

Welcome to Heaven, where perfection is the norm. But follow the rules, because even in paradise, negativity is a ticket to the unknown. Goblins on the Other Side is a tale that’ll keep you wondering what lies beyond the rules and the familiar. Buy now!

Thanks for being awesome and supporting independent art! Stay weird, stay curious, and keep an eye out for more tales from Eraserhead Press, where the extraordinary is just a page-turn away.

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New Release: Not Seeing Is A Flower by Erhu Kome

Love literally makes the world go round, so things are bound to get messy.

Ziora’s job, as a Dharma from the Odinani pantheon, is creating chaos in the lives of people made to fall in love by Cupids. But everything begins to go wrong when the couples she is assigned start to die, and a werewolf tries to kill her in her bedroom.

Fierce and decadent, Not Seeing Is A Flower is a stylish, supernatural adventure from the premier female Nigerian author of bizarro fiction, Erhu Kome.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erhu Kome comes from the Urhobo tribe and grew up in Benin City, so you could say she has eaten the most delicious foods in the world. She writes speculative fiction. weird stories, and sometimes normal stories. She loves anime, Bob’s Burgers, and shows that have Eric Kripke involved in the making.

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New Release: Full Metal Octopus by Carlton Mellick III

Welcome to Grub Town, the most corrupt city in America. A place where gutter punk mermaids swim in sewage-filled canals, fairy prostitutes hang in birdcages on every street corner, and yakuza elves run everything behind the scenes.

Eliot is the most beautiful fairy in all of the city with his dazzling emerald green butterfly wings that make everyone who sees them fall instantly in lust with him. But it’s more of a curse than a blessing. Forced to hide his wings in public in order to avoid the constant sexual harassment, Eliot only finds solace when visiting his friends at the Snake Pit lamia strip club or getting tattooed by the dark and mysterious half-octopus woman named Oona.

Oona is the best tattooist in the city, but she is a frightening woman three times Eliot’s size with nine-foot tentacles that could choke a man to death in seconds. But despite this fact, Eliot is desperately in love with her. He’s so infatuated with the octomaid that he gets new tattoos from her each and every week just to be closer to her, addicted to having her artwork permanently embedded into his skin. But when Eliot accidentally murders the only heir to the elf yakuza crime family in Oona’s tattoo shop, they are forced to go on the run together, hoping to avoid the wrath of the most dangerous man in town. With everyone in the city out to get them, they can only rely on each other if they have any hope for survival.

Like if Quentin Tarantino played with Monster High dolls, Full Metal Octopus is a return to Mellick’s pulpy gritty bizarro style previously seen in The Cannibals of Candyland, Armadillo Fists, and Clownfellas.

For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and “one of the most original novelists working today” by extreme horror legend Edward Lee, Mellick returns with an erotic urban fantasy crime novel about love and violence, sex and sexuality, oppression and overcoming impossible odds.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carlton Mellick III is the Wonderland Book Award-winning author of over 45 novels, including Quicksand House, Bio Melt, Cuddly Holocaust and Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, among others. In 2013, he was named one of the top 20 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian UK.

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New Release: Snap! Crackle! Fuck You! by Simon Oré Molina

Snap! Crackle! Fuck You! by Simon Ore Molina

Welcome to Cerealand! A place where adults can relive their childhood desire while indulging in their most perverted fantasies! Our rides are x-rated, our cereal is alcoholic and our mascots aren’t just people in suits – they are genetically mutated and reshaped into your favorite cereal mascots! Isn’t that amazing!? At Cerealand, we are committed to making your experience as nostalgically hedonistic as possible!

Something is rotten in Cereal Land and it’s not just the rancid milk fountains. Things have been going downhill at the Amusement Park ever since the three daughters of Captain Crunch took over. Rides have been breaking down, attendance is low, and strange new mascots are showing up in the park. None of this would bother Lucky the Leprechaun so much, except for the fact that he thinks something might have happened to his ex-girlfriend who’s gone missing. Something to do with all the strange businessmen that have been wandering the park lately. Something to do with the Security Soggies showing up in strange places. Teaming up with Sugar Bear, a leather daddy who helped design the park with Captain Crunch, Lucky hits the back alleys of Cerealand, forcing himself to confront his own demons and past as he ventures deeper into the milky mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Toucan Sam he once loved.

Snap! Crackle! Fuck You! is part of a complete breakfast.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Simon Oré Molina is an imaginary friend for hire and a lover of snacks. Born in Montreal, Canada to a Moroccan father and Mexican mother, (he’s a MoroCanexican) he now lives in Los Angeles, CA where he works as head of development at Starburns Industries, an animation studio in Burbank. He is also the founder of SBI Press, where he has produced over 20 Albums on limited edition cassette tape (including Dan Harmon’s Rap Album, Angelyne’s Meditation Tape “Cosmic Gods”, Chuck Tingle’s “Guide to the Tingleverse Museum” and “Rosetta Stone for Cats”) and edited graphic novels books such as “Trent “by Dino Stamatopoulos and “The Crawling King” by Einar Baldvin. He co-hosts Saturday Morning Cartoons, an animation mix tape show that plays monthly at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles as well as is the co-founder of El Cine, a non profit organization that promotes diversity in the arts and has screenings of LatinX films with their creators. He is left handed and therefore should be considered sinister.

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SPACE WALRUS by Kevin L. Donihe on Kindle

SPACE WALRUS by Kevin L. Donihe on Kindle https://amzn.to/3g9Cf6P

Space: the final frontier… these are the voyages of… a walrus?

Meet Walter. He is the first walrus in a revolutionary space program. Someday, his blubbery form will float past asteroids, stars, and planets as he journeys through the dark beyond to become a Master of Space. But for now, Walter’s dream is to win the heart of his lifelong love, Dr. Stephanie, who happens to be the scientist assigned to conduct experiments on him. The problem is Dr. Stephanie does not love Walter. She views him as a test subject and nothing more. To make matters worse, Dr. Stephanie appears to be in love with the abusive head scientist, Dr. Ron.

From Wonderland Book Award winner Kevin L. Donihe comes a tragic comedy of unrequited love and inspired determination.

Now available on Kindle

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Cover Reveal: NOT SEEING IS A FLOWER by Erhu Kome

We are proud to reveal the cover for the forthcoming book NOT SEEING IS A FLOWER by Erhu Kome.
Designed by Matthew Revert @papercrisis

Get ready for powerful female bizarro fiction from Nigeria.

Coming August 2021.
Review copies and pre-order coming soon!

#bizarrofiction #nigerianbizarro #lovemagic #moderfairytale #nsiaf #notseeingisaflower #writersofnigeria

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New Release: WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION by Robert Guffey

Eraserhead Press is proud to announce the release of WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION by Robert Guffey

Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes is a collection of four novellas that explore the madness of murder through the warped lenses of urban noir, science fiction, horror, and experimental fantasy.

About the stories:

  • In Decay in Amber, a convicted rapist and murderer wakes up one morning to discover he is only six inches tall and floating down the middle of the L.A. River in a beer bottle.
  • In Rocket City Murder, a police lieutenant has only twenty-four hours to solve a brutal triple-murder committed within the secretive confines of the bio warfare research lab known as Micropolis.
  • In Widow of the Amputation, the mythologies of various cultures collide as Charles Manson succeeds in busting out of Corcoran Penitentiary.
  • And in You Might As Well Die, a crime noir writer is led into a clever cat-and-mouse game intended to frame him for a murder he himself unknowingly devised.

Along with Cormac McCarthy, Guffey is my favorite modern fiction writer.

Gary D. Rhodes, author of The Perils of Movie going in America

About the author:

Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION AND OTHER WEIRD CRIMES (Eraserhead Press, 2021), a collection of four novellas, and a novel entitled BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD (Crossroad Press, 2021). Find him on Goodreads.

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New Release: CAPTAIN CLIVE’S DREAMWORLD by Jon Bassoff

Eraserhead Press is proud to announce the release of Captain Clive’s Dreamworld by Jon Bassoff.

After becoming the suspect in the death of a young woman, Deputy Sam Hardy is reassigned to the town of Angels and Hope, which, within its borders, holds the once magnificent amusement park, Captain Clive’s Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The park is essentially empty of customers. None of the townsfolk ever seem to sleep. And girls seem to be going missing with no plausible explanation. As Hardy begins investigating, his own past is drawn into question by the town, and he finds himself becoming more and more isolated. The truth—about the town and himself—will lead him to understand that there’s no such thing as a clean escape. 

“The Twilight Zone mixed with Twin Peaks mixed with Dante’s Inferno.” – Jeffrey Thomas

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Limited Edition Eraserhead Press Logo T-Shirts Available Now!

We’ve been getting requests to make our official logo t-shirt available. This design was previously only available to Eraserhead Press staff members. But now through August 4th we’re making this Limited Edition T-Shirt available for all. Show your support for Eraserhead Press and pick up one of these while they last!

Standard T-Shirt or Slim Fit, $24.99

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New Release: HELL OF DEATH by Vince Kramer

Eraserhead Press is pleased to announce the release of HELL OF DEATH by Vince Kramer.

Hell of Death is an offensive, hilarious adventure through the depths of Hell where Satan is like your cool older brother. And at the center of it all is the Hell House, Hell’s version of the White House, with its own president and everything. So it’s all political and shit. But not too political. There’s literally a scene where you can’t even keep reading anymore because a pit opens beneath you and screaming demons pull you down into the abyss! YOU’LL DIE! HOLY SHIT! Don’t read this book without drawing an upside cross on your forehead and a pentagram on the floor. Yell out “Hail Satan!” after every page if you want to survive! And if you don’t even want to live anymore, then kill yourself with the special Hell of Death razor blade (sold separately). Satan will be waiting for you!
SATAN WAITS FOR US ALL!

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ABOUT VINCE KRAMER

Vince Kramer is a gay author who lives in Portland, Oregon. In addition to Hell of Death, he is also the author of Gigantic Death Worm, Death Machines of Death, and Deadly Lazer Explodathon. Follow him on Instagram!