The Top 5 Bizarro Fiction Novels — horrornovelreviews.com

Posted by Matt Molgaard on Featured Articles Just what is Bizarro Fiction? Well, it’s a term that was adopted by independent publishing company Eraserhead Press (and a few others) that comes to mean “a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre-fiction staples, in order to create subversive works that are as weird and entertaining as possible”, according to Wikipedia. Pretty cool, right? For me, I try squeezing as much Bizarro into my reading regiment as I possibly can, without overloading my brain and turning it to mush. And that’s not because the subject matter is ludicrous and off-the-charts ridiculous, but because Bizarro is often thought-provoking and deeply rewarding, the way most literary fiction should be. Below, I’ve compiled a short list of my favorites.

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