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Eraserhead Double #2TWO ILLUSTRATED NOVELS
Angel Scene
written and illustrated by Richard Kadrey
Richard Kadrey, one of the few masters of cyberpunk, brings us into the world of the angels - biologically-engineered killing machines, created by the Men in Suits to be the ultimate assassins. Designed to get sexual pleasure from their murders, the life of the angels is one intensely erotic and violent escapade after another.
Teeth and Tongue Landscape
written by Carlton Mellick III, illustrated by Brian Doogan
In a world made out of meat, a socially-obsessive monophobic man finds himself to be the last human being on the face of the planet. Desperate for social interaction, he explores the landscape of flesh and blood, teeth and tongue, trying to befriend any strange creature or community that he comes across.
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Eraserhead Double #1My Fling with Betty Page
by Michael Hemmingson
“Michael Hemmingson is one sick, drooling, hunch-backed, black-hearted wretch of a human being who writes like a dark angel.” -- Lance Olsen, living writer and author of Hideous Beasties.
“Michael Hemmingson often conjures up my immortal soul during midnight seances.” -- Richard Brautigan, dead writer and author of A Confederate General from Big Sur
“I have done ‘walk-ins’ into Hemmingson’s body.” --Kathy Acker, dead writer and author of Great Expectations
“Fuck Hemmingson.” -- Ernest Hemingway, dead writer and author of A Farewell to Arms
Imagine a world where the Japanese retaliate in the 1940s by dropping their own twin A-bombs on Los Angeles and San Diego. Welcome to The Bubble: a self-contained universe created by that blast known as Los Diegos, where everything is five minutes away, no one ages, and no one dies. Imagine you’re a private eye hired to find the rare Betty Page stamp, but stumbling on the truth of reality, and the interdimensional aliens who wish to destroy it. A response to Alfred Jarry’s final and unpublished novel of pataphysics, My Fling With Betty Page asks the question: “Do you ever feel that somewhere, somehow, a duck is secretly watching you?” and even gives the answer.
Yellow #10
by Trevor Dodge
"Trevor Dodge's prose lifts the belly of consumer culture and media-saturated society to reveal its hidden center: endlessly shifting identity and the long echo of a desire perpetually deferred. You are what you read in the arbitrary loop and electrical charge of language. Dodge
signals through the flames." -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Real to Reel, Liberty's Excess, and Her
Other Mouths
News Flash from the Fourth Circle: it turns out Barbara and Jenna Bush
aren't alone in their garish makeup, binge drinking, and fake IDs. Meet twin sisters Susan and Sharon, extracted straight out of Disney's _The
Parent Trap_ (itself extracted from German children's author Erich
Kastner's _Das Doppelte Lottchen_). Unlike Disney's series of
self-congratulatingly "uproarious" sequels starring Hayley Mills, _Yellow
#10_ catches those rascally Baby Boomer twins full in the throes of a
1990s-style adolescent identity crisis, where anti-depressants,
confessional poetry, cry-for-help suicides, and the constipated rhythms of
pre-teen sex are set to the sticky-sweet backbeat of pre-millennial pop music.
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ALL THE MUTANT TRASH IN ALL THE GALAXIES or how we managed to rape known space planet by planet
four novels by M. F. KornA collection of four short novels/long novellas by M F Korn, describing lovesick stalkers, synthetic whores, abused robots, Lolitas, conmen, robber barons, oilfield and nuclear blue collar white trash, schizophrenic aliens, video oulaws, rednecks,
thieves, indentured androids, barflies, pharmaceutical overlords, squatters, smut merchants and good country people all carving out a piece of desperate living for themselves. Each of the four novels/novellas has a separate introduction by established writing colleagues of M F Korn.
The Man Who Loved in Light Years: A drug-addled philosophy professor stalks a pheromone Lolita through known space.
Movietone Mars: Cinema is illegal—Movie stars purged—everyone has his own television show.
Tilting Planet (trouble with xenodes): terran shrinks sent to cure schizophrenic artistic alien race, but who caused the outbreak?
Galactic smut merchants: alien pornography –something new for grunts on mining planets—also to conquer terran pay-per-view market”
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STRANGER ON THE LOOSE
stories by D. Harlan Wilson
In this collection of stories, D. Harlan Wilson deconditions the boundaries of reality with the same offbeat methodology that energized his first book The Kafka Effekt. Stranger on the Loose is an absurdist account of urban and suburban social dynamics, and of the effects that contemporary image-culture has on the (in)human condition. These stories operate on a plane of existence that resists, and in many cases breaks, the laws of causality. Parrots teach college courses. Flâneurs impersonate bowling pins. Bodybuilders sneak into people’s homes and strike poses at their leisure. Passive-aggressive glaciers and miniature elephant-humans antagonize the seedy streets of Suburbia. Apes disguised as scientists reincarnate Walt Disney, who discovers that he is a Chinese box full of disguised Walt Disneys . . . Wilson’s imagination is a rare specimen. The acorns of his fiction are planted in the soil of normalcy, but what grows out of that soil is a dark, witty, otherworldly jungle.
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HIDEOUS BEAUTIES
a collection by Lance Olsen
images by Andi Olsen
"Truly disturbing." - NEW YORK PRESS
"Olsen is among the finest writers of social critique and speculative fiction today." - AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW
"Olsen is a master of an evocative, expressive prose. Hip images tumble across the page with a hypnotic, hallucinogenic clarity." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Reminiscent of the British New Wave Movement at its best." - SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE
HIDEOUS BEAUTIES is a collection of a dozen outrageous fictions, each based
on a photograph, painting, sketch, collage, or assemblage by an equally
outrageous artist (Hans Bellmer, Ed Kienholz, Joel-Peter Witkin, et alia),
that explores the amphibious edge where language and image splice.
Death is a village of mermaids, suburbia a hunchbacked dwarf at the door who
just won't go away, identity a self that can't stop cleaving, millennial sex
a radical form of digestion.
In other words, Lance Olsen is at it again, and with a vengeance, inviting
us into his absurd, unsettling, tender, and formally disruptive fever-dream
worlds so that we might wake up, and wake up changed.
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RAZOR WIRE PUBIC HAIR
a novel by Carlton Mellick III A psycho-sexual fairy tale about a multi-gender screwing toy who is purchased by a razor dominatrix and brought into her nightmarish worlds of bizarre sex and mutilation. "Razor Wire Pubic Hair is freaky, funny, brutal, techno-noir, limit-situation stuff set in a bad-dream future that's ultimately a metaphor for a present-day journey into the relentless nature of desire and the delicious permeability of gender. Somewhere right this second David Cronenberg, H. R. Giger, a young David Lynch, and a wizened Doug Rice are smiling because they know something extraordinary has just birthed in the Arizonan Desert of the Real. Read this, duck, and cover." - Lance Olsen, author of Freaknest
"I would call this a happy world to live in, with only brute body modified women and hermaphroditic sex toys, but I suppose constantly fighting off hordes of murderous rapists and needing to deposit your womb in a machine to make an ugly squishy baby would be a drawback." - Jasmine Sailing, editor/publisher Cyber-Psychos AOD
"Carlton Mellick III takes readers on an ultra-bizarre sexual nightmare with his novella 'Razor Wire Pubic Hair.' He blends a surreal landscape into a dark, hopeless future, creating disturbing, yet thought-provoking sequences of events that ultimately delve into horrors of lust and sex. This novella is a page turner of strange proportions. Your mind will twist into the shadowy points between eroticism and insanity, quickly addicted to the author's avant-guarde style. Mellick is a bizarre visionary, and this novella showcases his talented prose and twisted imaginings." - Shane Ryan Staley, author of I'll Be Damned
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SKIN PRAYER
fragments of abject memory by Doug RiceDoug Rice is haunted-by what we can only guess. He is trapped; he goes
nowhere. He is a modern day hysteric, a psychoanalyst's dream. He writes
the same thing over and over, runs the same spinning track, as if somehow,
through the repetition of extremes, he could eliminate the trauma, break
its foul-smelling, icy-fingered spell. Only it is a spell of beauty --the
beauty that comes from devastation, from the constant struggle to rise
again in that roaring fire's shouldered wake. You will find no plot or
answers here, only the unbearable loss of abandonment and grief. Make no
mistake: Doug Rice kills us again and again and he does not want us to
survive it, for he has been burned at the stake and is burning still. He
is a ghost who can do nothing but plead with his bones and remind us with
the choking beauty ghosts bring. Despite his pleas, you will not like him.
You will not like him, and yet . . .Skin Prayer is the power of redemption
in the word when life has failed us. It has no inside or outside, it is
only itself. It is the self-enclosed, hermetic world of obsessive need, a
space where one can't breath. And yet it is breath. In its own suffocated
space, if we survive it, or are patient enough not to throw it aside, it
gives us insufferable hope.
Leslie Heywood
Associate Professor of English & Cultural Studies
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MY DREAM DATE (RAPE) WITH KATHY ACKER
short stories by Michael Hemmingson "Michael Hemmingson is definitely the Jim Thompson
of the 21st Century." - Larry McCaffery
"If you do writerly calculus, you can get Hemmingson by
taking two parts Lenny Bruce, two parts Hemmingway,
and one part Camus." - Don Webb
In this new collection of fictions—a handful of small tales and two novellas—Michael Hemmingson retains his notorious status as the subversive prince of the avant-pop; or, as stated in The American Book Review, “one of the reckless youths of a quick and dirty literature.”
Sex, drugs, Raymond Carver’s ghost, Barbie dolls loving GI Joe dolls, the pure vaginas of French girls, the un-pure vagina of Kathy Acker, crack whores, nutty neighbors, scatological girlfriends, iniquitous fiends, Jesus freaks, pornographers, pushers, movers, shakers and winning lottery tickets are just some of the topics found in this unique book that is certain to titillate and aggravate the finest minds of the 21st Century.
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STRANGEWOOD TALES
edited by Jack FisherThis anthology is a cure for the bland formulaic horror fiction that plagues supermarkets and mall bookstores. It shames so-called "cutting-edge" publishers who are really just commercial wannabes in disguise. And opens doors to readers who are sick of writers afraid to break out of the mold and do something/anything different. Featuring twenty insane tales that break all rules, push all boundaries. They can only be described as surreal, experimental, postmodern, avant-garde or just plain bizarre. Welcome to the dawning of a new era in dark literature. Its birthplace is called Strangewood.
FEATURING WORK BY: Kurt Newton, Jeffrey Thomas, Richard Gavin, Charles Anders, Brady Allen, DF Lewis, Carlton Mellick III, Scott Thomas, GW Thomas, Carol MacAllister, Jeff VanderMeer, Monica J. O'Rourke, Gene Michael Higney, Scott Milder, Andy Miller, Forrest Aguirre, Jack Fisher, Eleanor Terese Lohse, Shane Ryan Staley, and Mark McLaughlin.
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SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN?
a novel by Kevin L. Donihe"It illuminates.
It demonizes.
It pulls the strings of the puppets controlling the strangest of passion plays within a corporate structure. Everyone, every thing is a target of Mr. Donihe’s wit and off-kilter worldview . . . There are shades of Philip K. Dick’s wonderfully inventive The Divine Invasion (minus the lurid pop singer), trading up Zen Buddhism for unconscious Gnosticism. Malachi manifests where Elijah would stand revealed; and the Roald Dahl-like midgets hold the pink laser beam shining into our hero’s mind. Religion is lambasted under the scrutiny of Corporate money- crunchers, and nothing is what it seems."
- From the introduction by Jeffrey A. Stadt. READ THE REVIEWS READ AN EXCERPT ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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SATAN BURGER
a novel by Carlton Mellick III
"This generation's Vonnegut!" - Vincent Sakowski
"An utterly fascinating, inventive and oftentimes hilarious read." - Margaret Marr, AAS REVIEWS
Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism, and the end of the human race . . .
God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-like machine called the Walm - an interdimensional doorway that brings His New Children into the world. He loves these new children, but He doesn't love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it ...
Featuring: a narrator who sees his body from a third-person perspective, a man whose flesh is dead but his body parts are alive and running amok, an overweight messiah, the personal life of the Grim Reaper, lots of classy sex and violence, and a motley group of squatter punks that team up with the devil to find their place in a world that doesn’t want them anymore.
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SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNPLUGGED
a novel by Vincent W. Sakowski
"Satin-finished stainless steel prose." - SF READER
"Full of images and situations that stretch the imagination." - PEEP SHOW
A post-modern fantasy filled with anti-heroes and anti-climaxes. An allegorical tale, the story satirizes many of our everyday obsessions, including: the pursuit of wealth and materialism;the thirst for empty spectacles and violence; and climbing whatever social, political, or economical ladder is before us. Join the man and his Nemesis, the obese tabby, and a host of others for a nightmare roller coaster ride from realm to realm, microcosm to microcosm: The Carnival, The Fray, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and The Court of The Crimson Ey’d King. Pretentious gobbledygook or an unparalleled anti-epic of the surreal and absurd? Read on and find out
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SKIMMING THE GUMBO NUCLEAR
a novel by M. F. Korn
"This author is definitely a rebel of the written word and has done his part in the fight to tear down convention and create a new era in alternative literature." - AAS REVIEWS
A grand epic wasteland of surreal pandemic plague. Pollution quotient in the southern delta nether regions of the state of Louisiana, the dustbin of the Mississippi river and the nation, whose motto is the "Sportsman's Paradise" but is a paradise of colorful denizens all grappling for a slice of lassez bon temps roule, "let the good times roll", but now all are grappling for their very lives. Nature had to fight back sooner or later, and now what will happen to this tourist state gone amuck with middle-ages plague?
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THE KAFKA EFFEKT
short stories by D. Harlan Wilson
"Imagine a roller coaster that runs entirely through a kaleidoscope tunnel. I got that feeling as I read." - ADIRONDACK REVIEW
"A text for individuals who like to be challenged and unsettled, who appreciate absurd humour and who are not afraid of allowing some confusion and chaos into their lives." - E-BOOK REVIEWS WEEKLY
The Kafka Effekt is D. Harlan Wilson’s debut book, a collection of forty-four short stories loosely written in the vein of Franz Kafka, with more than a pinch of William S. Burroughs sprinkled on top. A manic depressive has a baby’s bottom grafted onto his face; a hermaphrodite impregnates itself and gives birth to twins; a gaggle of professors find themselves trapped in a port-a-john and struggle to liberate their minds from the prison of reason—these are just a few of the precarious situations that the characters herein are forced to confront. The Kafka Effekt is a postmodern scream. Absurd, intelligent, funny and scatological, Wilson turns reality inside out and exposes it as a grotesque, nightmarish machine that is always-already processing the human subject, who struggles to break free from the machine, but who at the same time revels in its subjugation.
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SZMONHFU
a novel by Hertzan Chimera
!!!OUT OF PRINT!!!This book is no longer being sold by Eraserhead Press. However, it should be reissued by another publisher at some time in the future. Please sign up for the Hertzan Chimera newsletter at his website for upcoming HC releases.
Jane Templeton Rice is the highest paid fashion model in her industry. Her whole life stretches out in front of her like extravagent courses in a Chinese banquet. The night of the Gaultier show why did Jane go 'walkabout'?
We follow this delicate young redhead on a blistering erotic adventure of discovery. But we soon find out that Jane has a problem. Her ability to dredge up the very deepest fantasies from her lovers is both an erotic firestorm and a millstone around her slender neck. How pure the intensions of her lovers must be. How honourable. For one small slip of conscience will result in a filthy bloodbath of man-raped sexual identity unwoven. And what of the SZMONHFU, the alien race of super beings, what is their part in Jane's illustrious future?
SZMONHFU in many ways tells the tale of Pinocchio - but in the biogenetic horrotica world of Hertzan Chimera that impending maturity takes on a haunted inevitability stripped from the original kids' story.
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ELECTRIC JESUS CORPSE
a novel by Carlton Mellick III"This is one of the most odd, strange, weird books I have ever read, and enjoyed every minute of it. If you are a Terry Prachett fan then this is the book to read."
- D. M. Yorton, Top Site The story of the messiah, Jesus Christ, thrown into a chaotic and surreal version of modern day Earth where: people naturally turn into zombies after they die and are left to roam the countryside forever, greasers are evil dictators that have taken over America, vodka is the most powerful substance in the world, and flesh is slowly mutating into machine. The story follows Christ's twelve apostles. However, in this world the apostles are pimps, necrophiliacs, skinheads, and other assorted freaks. And they have no desire to follow Jesus Christ on his crusade to save humanity whatsoever. So this novel follows the lives of these never-been apostles on their separate epic journeys into the bizarre. An awkward and chaotic work of art (or perhaps garbage), that is like nothing you've ever seen.
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