Eraserhead Chapbooks ERASERHEAD CHAPBOOKS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE. There are still some chapbooks available at SHOCKLINES.COM. Get them while you still can. GEORGIE AND HER MEAT by Joi Brozek $2.25, 24 pages "GEORGIE AND HER MEAT is a playfully hip and twisted updating of the fairy tales of our youth. This is the kind of fiction the bastard child of Joe Lansdale and Tanith Lee might create, but Joi is her own person weaving her own powerful, enduring spells." - Tom Piccirilli, author of A LOWER DEEP and HEXES SOLD OUT THE BABY JESUS BUTT PLUG by Carlton Mellick III $2.50, 28 pages Step into a dark and absurd future where human beings are slaves to corporations, making clones is as easy as making photocopies, and the baby jesus is a very popular anal probe. Read a sample. "Carlton Mellick III is one of the most unique writers working today. His surrealist blends of horror, satire, and humor will quickly bore themselves underneath your skin. I have no doubt that his name will one day be familiar to readers who like their fiction on the strange side." - David Whitman, author of Harlan and Deadfellas SOLD OUT HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN by Gene O'Neill $2.25, 24 pages After the death of his parents, young Adrian is forced to move into his sister's home. However, his sister is a prostitute and her home is a brothel in New Orleans called House of the Rising Sun. Adrian has to adapt to living as a young man in a house of prostitution, hiding in the attic and avoiding the abusive rulers of the house. And on top of all that, he can't seem to explain all the strange happenings at Gene O'Neill's House of the Rising Sun. SOLD OUT FROM THE BOWELS OF BIRCH STREET by Kevin L. Donihe $2.50, 32 pages "From the Bowels of Birch Street to your hands, your eyes - open the cover and let these six cheerfully insane tales of the surreal and the absurd soak into your brain. Witness birth from a man's anus, sentient surgical instruments that know no right or wrong - only that they must perform their tasks without fail, and three liquidated stoners whose moral characters are put on trial as they are put six feet under. View the evidence and judge for yourself. And, as a bonus, there is "Discourse on a Hill," giving you a peak at things to come in Kevin L. Donihe's upcoming novel SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN?" - Vincent W. Sakowski, author of Some Things are Better Left Unplugged SOLD OUT THE LESS FASHIONABLE SIDE OF THE GALAXY by M. F. Korn, D. F. Lewis, and Hertzan Chimera $2.25, 24 pages Three masters of bizarre speculation combine talents to create five experimental tales of insane fiction. Featuring M. F. Korn, author of Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, Hertzan Chimera, author of SZMONHFU, and the king of the weirdmongers, D. F. Lewis. SOLD OUT THE INFANT VENDING MACHINE by Carlton Mellick III $2.25, 20 pages Surreal landscapes and cultural molestations. Read a sample. Also by Carlton Mellick III: SATAN BURGER SOLD OUT DANCING SKINLESS edited by Gobbler Dobs $3.00, 36 pages Surreal, absurd, and experimental erotica. Features work from Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Bradshaw, Richard Gavin, Sandra Fritz, Rose O'Keefe, Desiree Simone, and Duana R. Anderson. SOLD OUT KNOCK THE DEAD edited by Carlton Mellick III $3.00, 48 pages Eraserhead Press takes a break from the surreal to release a collection of Romero-esque zombie stories. Ten tales of the living dead by Michael Laimo, Greg F. Gifune, Everette Bell, Weston Ochse, Sandy DeLuca, Brian John Mitchell, and Mark McLaughlin. SOLD OUT THE HACK CHRONICLES by Vincent W. Sakowski $3.00, 44 pages A short novel that recounts the satirical and surreal misadventures of the high profile freelance journalist, Hack. Initially, all he seeks is his next interview with the Deity, Rockstar, on a luxury liner, but he is soon abandoned on a tiny island surrounded by crocogators. . . or are they allidiles? And does it make a difference? Left to fend for himself and find his way home, Hack is faced with many dangers, distractions and temptations, in the forms of others such as Hoard, Suit and Spectre. Hack quickly realizes he wants to live beyond his name, and so his real journey begins. "The world of THE HACK CHRONICLES is covered in ice and slime. It is a world where babies are ground underfoot because someone ate all the shagpile. You wake up with a brain carved in twain and HACK tries to reunite the twin aspects of the real and the fanciful, left right left right, split splt plist. The reader is bludgeoned to death in a rain drenched silhouette just like in those classic black and white cutaways of horror. You feel breathless as the suffocating assault of words choke out HACK's exploits in Sickville USA where everything that is not broken is in the process of being smashed to bits by a hammer working day and night to screw your brain. HACK is a big gut tearing punch in the guts, HACK is a right royal brain fuck of the highest note. Order now and leave your guilt (and your knickers) behind.” - Hertzan Chimera, author of SZMONHFU “Whether he’s wading through a pool of writhing allidiles and rocogators, interviewing God-like RockStars, or simply starring off into the T.V., Hack is never at a loss for unplanned adventure. But something’s still missing . . . Hack really needs to fight his personal demons . . . but that's a hard thing to do. He'll have to weather the absurdities of Three Needles Island, the banalities of the world, and the mixed-up human condition itself throughout his often diverted quest toward self-hood. This book proves you can't really know who you are unless you take the time to go a little mad.” - Kevin L. Donihe, author of Shall We Gather at the Garden? SOLD OUT RECONFIGURING FRANKENSTEIN by Jeffrey Little $2.25, 20 pages The Collected Cut-Ups & Assorted Celebrations brings together all of Jeffrey Little's experiments with willfull rearrangements of text, as well as a selection of surrealism celebrating everything from ceiling fans to Mrs. Butterworth, & Captain Beefheart to Octoberfest. Images leap off of the page & attempt to throttle the reader with any foreign object they can find, "a ham candle" or "the thick nurse hurrying the left dial on his back, "the little professor with the one dead hand." Sit back & watch the froth collect, then order out for more. SOLD OUT THE EARWIG FLESH FACTORY #3 edited by William P. Simmons $3.00, 44 pages Third installment of this darkly surreal horror collection. Features work by Vincent Sakowski, Patricia Russo, Kurt Newton, D. F. Lewis, David McKee, Ward Parker, Richard Gavin, Sarah Jacobs, William John Watkins, Forrest Aguirre, Kaaron Warren, Tony Mileman, Gary Archambault, Donna Taylor Burgess, Ronald Damien Malfi, and David C. Kopaska Merkel. SOLD OUT THE EARWIG FLESH FACTORY #1 edited by Carlton Mellick III $3.00, 40 pages Dark surrealism and absurd horror collection. Features work by David Whitman, D.M. Yorton, Weston Ochse, James Viscosi, Duana R. Anderson, Carol MacAllister, Anthony M. Armstrong, David Kopaska-Merkel, G. W. Thomas, G. Durant Haire, Caleb Monroe, and an introduction story by Carlton Mellick III. Read a sample. SOLD OUT KAFKA-BREATHING SOCK PUPPETS by D. Halan Wilson $2.25, 20 pages “D. Harlan Wilson is a mad visionary whose prose delves deeply into the subconscious pulling out weiner dogs, pregnant hermaphrodites, removable suits of flesh and a demented school bus driver from hell. His imagination has no boundaries, his plots are like dreams and hallucinations under an acid reign. Kafka-breathing Sock Puppets serves as a portal to another state of mind - a fresh exit for those looking to escape the world as we know it.” - Shane Ryan Staley, author of Chocolate Jesus and Other Weird Perversions. “Kafka Breathing Sock Puppets” reads like a vivisection of the in-human condition. Peeling back the blister of perception. Wilson’s characters breath, suffer, and live in dimensions of experience outside reality or fantasy. With uncompromising gusto, Wilson combines hallucinatory vision with a concrete imagery, using words as a surgeon wields a scalpel to challenge the expectations of his audience. Although traces of Kafka and Strindberg resonate in the writing, never is Wilson’s voice less than original as he carves holes in the frail ‘good fabric’ of logic. Rather than take an expected situation and strip it of its rationality, Wilson uses empathetic characters and vivid detail to illustrate the inherent absurdity already woven into the very core of existence. With a sophisticated and painfully honest style, Wilson makes dark miracles and surreal revelations appear more substantial (and acceptable) then the ‘normal’ conventions of logic that he turns inside-out. Comedic and dark, compelling and intelligent, these fictions blur border-lands between thought and action, appearance and substance. Reality is exposed as a fine thread unraveling along the frayed ends of our troubled perception by characters whose transformations and absurd predicaments remind us uncomfortably of our own. Neither realism or fantasy, this collection of post-modernist story telling unrepentantly dares the reader to shadow dance between both extremes. In Wilson’s apt hands, it’s a trip worth taking.” - William P. Simmons, editor of The Earwig Flesh Factory. SOLD OUT SICK DAYS by Shane Ryan Staley $3.00, 40 pages "Shane Ryan Staley's got guts. With today's politically correct atmosphere, his no-"holes" barred style of fiction begs to be condemned, chastised, burned at the stake...but his words just keep pulling you along, dragging you into the lives of characters who have turned society's most natural instincts upside-down and inside-out. With a grin and a nervous glance over your shoulder, you'll enjoy these stories." - Kurt Newton Author of THE HOUSE SPIDER and Other Strange Visitors, FIVE SPOTS ON THE NEWT, and DENIZENS OF THE CITYSCAPE "Shane Ryan Staley writes like a wicked living scarecrow, stuffed not with straw, but with monkey guts, sparking computer chips, tarantulas and Halloween candy!" - Mark McLaughlin, editor, The Urbanite: Surreal & Lively & Bizarre "Shane Ryan Staley's stories are biting and bitter, short but not sweet - they hit you like venom spat from a snake. Sometimes thoughtful, always disturbing, and filled with a bile that raises them to a level of intense personal expression. Staley is the Angry Young Man of horror!" - Jeffrey Thomas, author of TERROR INCOGNITA SOLD OUT NEURONE FRY-UP by Hertzan Chimera $2.25, 20 pages 10 chaotic tales by this outlandish UK wordsmith that will blow your mind. It's sex for a surrealist. Read a sample. "Chimera's conflagrations raze cities of the human mind while his sickly dogs twitch in the burning bones of entropy." - James Havoc "Hertzan Chimera is destined for great fame -- solid gold planes and caviar squeezed from endangered fish. Know him! Embrace him! And ultimately -- worship him!" - Mark McLaughlin SOLD OUT I GAVE AT THE ORIFICE by Mark McLaughlin $2.50, 32 pages 8 stories of bizarre dark fantasy “McLaughlin is HOT! If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin... here are massive helpings of grisly horror, black humour and surreal splendour. Hugely satisfying, but I guarantee you'll beg for more.” - Simon Clark "McLaughlin supplants horror's all-too-often perceived transparency with delightful absurdity, in worlds where terror and curiosity seemingly merge to become a chaotic playground, a twisted shifting wonderland of fears and desires." - Mike Olson, editor, The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction. "Mark McLaughlin's prose never disappoints. It might shock, dismay, puzzle, leave you rolling out of your seat laughing or sitting back in amazement, but it never disappoints. … Truly one of the most creative, poetic minds of modern literature.” - David Niall Wilson SOLD OUT THIS YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS by Wiley Wiggins $2.25, 18 pages Every once in a while an author appears on the scene with a style so free, so chaotic, so new that it alters your perception of literature forever. A young actor/writer, Wiley Wiggins (well-known as a POV character in Richard Linklater films such as 'Dazed and Confused' and the surreal soon-to-be cult film 'Waking Life') has 6 stories of brain-melting, reality-defying prose for you. So sit back, drink a beer, and let Wiggins corrupt your mind. Read a sample SOLD OUT RESULTS OF A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME ORGANIC MATRICES by David Kopaska-Merkel $2.25, 20 pages Recommended for the Bram Stoker Award for best poetry collection of 2000. "From surreal to science fiction to horror to humor, David is equally equipped to handle it all. His poems delve into the heart of what we are, often discovering the unexpected, the alien inside us, or the fool. I love that!" - Wendy Rathbone "Blending his background as a scientist with a sense of the surreal, David Kopaska-Merkel is a leading voice in science fiction poetry today." - Deborah P. Kolodji "David writes complex verse. Even in his slyly forthright-appearing verse, one has to literally dig into his words and get dirt under the fingernails to get at the core meanings that lurk beneath his diction." - Michael A. Arnzen SOLD OUT SYCOPHANTIC PEEPSHOW by Jon Hodges $2.25, 20 pages "Jon Hodges is a strong writer with a talent that captures the readers and draws them in. Read a sample. "From his short stories to his poetry, one will find descriptions, characters that come to life.” — D.M. Yorton, Black Petals Publications “The people in Jon's poetry are alive. They're people we all recognize, only shown in a light that gives new meaning and understanding to their lives and ours.” — David L. Kuzminski, author of Will Fight Evil For Food SOLD OUT MUCH ADO ABOUT TEETH by Food Fortunata $3.75, 55 pages Possibly the dumbest thing ever written by a human being. It features the complete history of teeth as told by a grand master of teeth. Also featuring ways in which you can hollow out a unicorn so that you can sit inside it. "My butt used to be connected to my body. Now it's somewhere else. I blame this book" - Sir Francis Drake "If I told you once, I told you a million times, this Food guy is the biggest butthole in the universe. He looks like a creep and writes like a mongoloid. I'd be completely repulsed by the idea of him as an author if it weren't for his stylish hairdos." - The Governor of Oklahoma "Food Fortunata depicts teeth as not only Man's greatest accomplishment to date, but also as tiny ill-tempered ruffians who can't get enough of the latest Tone Loc album." - Kenny G., Toughest Man Competition Winner SOLD OUT HOME ABOUT US Links