What is Bizarro Fiction???
Here’s author John Skipp to illuminate:
If you’re searching for the best Bizarro fiction books, you’ve found the weirdest corner of the internet. Bizarro fiction is a genre that blends surreal novels, absurdist humour, and underground literature into unforgettable stories. In this list, we’ll share 10 essential reads every fan of weird fiction should know.
1. It’s Mawdsley by David Baker
At the top of the list is Cock Turkey Press’ first book release, It’s Mawdsley by David Baker.
Released in 2007 (before the Internet and mobile phones took over the world) It’s Mawdsley predicts media’s grip on society, spreading hatred and divisiveness, sucking its people ever-deeper into a nihilistic death-spiral. Life’s absurd horrors – as peddled by the media – are embodied in the main character, superhuman thug Craig Mawdsley, who one reviewer called “the worst literary character ever. EVER” (Anita Dalton, Odd Things Considered). Ben Granger, writer for Spike Magazine, added,
“The central concept/main gimmick of It’s Mawdsley is essentially how a book would read if written by the kind of person who would never write a book, a stream of consciousness from someone who is barely conscious. So when this ignorant, immoral, psychotic, racist, misogynist toss-bag puts pen to paper he is not only writing in language in which every other word is shit, cunt, fuck or wank – the events he writes about, sculpted in his fetid psyche, bear only the slightest passing resemblance to reality.” (Read the full review here.)
It’s Mawdsley combines violent surrealism, absurdist twists, and a brutally comic storyline aiming to bring the reader to its knees – laughing and screaming. If you love weird fiction books that shock and entertain, IM and its sequel, World Maw 3 (2025), are MUST-READS.
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2. Cows by Matthew Stokoe
Cows is a 1998 transgressive horror novel by Matthew Stokoe, known for its disturbing and graphic content. A highly controversial cult classic, the book follows the unraveling sanity of a young man, Steven, as he grapples with alienation, abuse, and an extreme vision of normalcy.
The explicit and disturbing nature of the novel has made it a subject of controversy since its release. It contains bestiality, excrement eating, brutal violence, and child death.
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3. Ass Goblins of Auschwitz by Cameron Pierce
In a nightmarish, parallel world where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, a prison camp called Auschwitz is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens known as the Ass Goblins.
The story follows conjoined twin brothers, Prisoners 999 and 1001, who must endure the tortures of the Ass Goblins. The horrors they face include forced cannibalism, having to create objects from the bodies of dead children, and bizarre surgical experiments.
The book’s provocative title and imagery have generated controversy due to its appropriation of Auschwitz, the name of the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, for a work of grotesque and satirical fiction. However, as with much bizarro fiction, the intent is to shock and disturb in a surreal, not realistic, manner. Readers familiar with the genre recognize it as an intentionally “tacked on” and shocking element designed to contribute to its absurdist tone.
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4. Toilet Baby by Shane McKenzie
Be careful where you masturbate…
Grady learns this the hard way when he rubs one out in the bathroom and ends up knocking up his toilet. When the swollen latrine gives birth, Grady finds himself saddled with a toilet baby-a half-human half-porcelain monstrosity that yearns to be loved.
But being a new father isn’t easy when your child is a toilet girl that feeds on human excrement and must be kept a secret from the rest of society. Grady soon learns he isn’t the only one with this problem. There’s a hidden community of toilet people where fathers can live with their toilet children in peace. Unfortunately, their tranquil isolation cannot last forever.
Kids will be kids and the toilet children are eager and curious to learn about the world and experiences that were always kept from them – no matter how dangerous they may be.
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5. Person by Sam Pink
Pink’s debut novel is a cult favorite about a man in Chicago who contemplates starving himself to death. It is characterized by mundane, day-to-day moments and a protagonist who finds himself alienated from society.
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6. Extinction Journals by Jeremy Robert Johnson
The world has ended in a nuclear holocaust, and Dean has survived by building a custom business suit covered in living cockroaches. The creatures absorb the radiation, allowing him to endure the blasted landscape of a nuclear-ravaged Washington D.C.
Reviewers frequently note the book’s hybrid, genre-bending style, which mixes post-apocalyptic fiction, body horror, and dark humor. Its absurd and surrealist tone earns it a firm place within the bizarro fiction genre.
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7. Son of a Bitch by Wrath James White, Andre Duza
The story follows Demitrius, who breeds vicious dogs for drug dealers and dogfighters. After rescuing his dog from a black magic ritual, she gives birth to a monstrous, demonic creature. Demitrius makes a deal with Warlock, a local hitman, to rent out the beast for a special murder.
The hit goes wrong, and Warlock’s consciousness is trapped inside the demon dog. The hitman and the creature begin to merge into a single entity, which hunts down and exacts vengeance on those who cursed it. This forces Demitrius to confront the murderous outcome of his deal.
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8. Bucket of Face by Eric Hendrixson
Thirteen years after a police officer searching a suspected child molester’s home spilled a vial of silver pollen, America is still struggling with how to recognize its sentient fruit population. Charles is just a normal guy working at a doughnut shop until an apple and a banana shoot each other in a mafia dispute, leaving a briefcase full of foreign currency and a specimen bucket at the corner booth. When Charles turns the wiseguys into doughnuts and steals their luggage, hoping for a better life for himself and his kiwi fruit girlfriend, he finds himself in the middle of a mafia war. As his girlfriend travels the DC metro area, selling off the contents of the bucket, Charles finds he is the target of a seasoned hit-tomato, who happens to be the biggest Michael Jackson fan who ever lived.
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9. Wormjob by M.T. Granberry
Wormjob depicts a society whose priorities have gone horrendously askew, where women deliberately infect themselves with parasitic worms to enhance the size of their breasts. Of all these women, Shari Yanisin is perhaps the most famous, having achieved a bust size of unparalleled proportions. She lives happily with her worm enhanced breasts, and is tolerant of her boyfriend’s odd sexual proclivities, until one day one of her worms decides that it isn’t cut out for the lifestyle of a parasite, and begins behaving in a decidedly predatory way.
Shari’s life begins to fall apart as she loses control of first her body, then her mind. The answer to her troubles may lie within a circus sideshow that displays all of her deepest fears, a shopping mall that sells eternal salvation as well as the trendiest consumer products, or in a cosmetic clinic where the perfect body is attainable, but at a terrible cost.
Will Shari find the solution she seeks before her breasts explode? Is there any hope for this poor lost soul, or is this one apple that is truly rotten on the inside?
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10. Baby’s First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit by Robert Devereaux
From an orgy between God, Satan, Adam and Eve to beauty pageants for fetuses. From a giant human-absorbing tongue to a place where God is in the eyes of the psychopathic. This is a party at the furthest limits of human decency and cruelty. Robert Devereaux is your host but watch out, he’s spiked the punch with drugs, sex, and dismemberment. Deadite Press is proud to present ten stories of the strange, the gross, and the just plain fucked up from one of the most original voices in horror – Robert Devereaux.
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Conclusion:
This list of the best Bizarro fiction books proves one thing: the genre thrives on being different. It’s surreal, absurd, shocking, and impossible to ignore. Add It’s Mawdsley to your reading list, and join the movement of readers who embrace the strange side of literature.