The Bizarro Starter Kit

Bizarro Starter Kit

by Brian Allen Carr, J. David Osborne, Shane McKenzie

There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: Brian Allen Carr, Violet LeVoit, David W. Barbee, Shane McKenzie, J. David Osborne, Kirsten Alene, Robert Devereaux, Douglas Hackle, Eric Hendrixson, and Nick Antosca.

Genres: Bizarro Fiction, Horror

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2015

About the author

Brian Allen Carr is an Aspen Words Finalist and two time Wonderland Book Award winner.

His books include OPIOID, INDIANA, MOTHERFUCKING SHARKS and several others.

He is from Texas and lives in Indiana.

Reviews

[Luke Kondor]

I can’t think of a better way to introduce someone to the wide span and vast scale of the Bizarro genre than one of the starter kits. I’ve read the Red and Orange books so far and both times I’ve found new favourites.

How can I forget Violet Levoit’s brown twin in I Am Gengis Cum?
Or the meta and lush horror and comedy of Brian Allen Carr’s Motherfucking Sharks?
And Antosca’s obese? And Hackle’s terror sardines? And Hendrixson’s Hans, left to rot in a concrete dam?

All so, so good.

As with all collections, not every story is going to land with you, but I’m 100% sure that there is something in this book for everyone.

[Debumere]

A wide range of short bizarro stories, some great, some a little bit not so great.

Anyway. First book of 2019 done.

Whoooo

[Douglas Ogurek]

Like other installments in this anthology series on bizarro fiction, The Bizarro Starter Kit (Red) contains some highly original and entertaining stories, while others are tedious and had me anxiously anticipating their conclusions . . . not to find out what happens, but rather to be done. I think my favorite story involved a ouija board that acted as an ultra-blunt therapist.