Richard Neal Schowengerdt, the inventor featured so prominently in my 2015 book, CHAMELEO, would have celebrated his 92nd birthday today. Alas, Richard passed away on Christmas Eve morning of 2021. I wrote about his passing in this 12-28-21 blog post. A few weeks later, in February of 2022, I appeared on a national radio show (COAST TO COAST AM) to commemorate Richard’s accomplishments in life. A day doesn't go by that I don't think of Richard and his substantial legacy. Continue resting in peace, my friend....
You can read Richard's obituary right HERE.
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new short story has just been published in Matthew A. Clarke's EXTREMELY BIZARRE,
an anthology published by Planet Bizarro Press. In “The Pathology of Hands” (13,100 words), a fugitive from justice is forced to confront a minotaur constructed of sentient hands in a labyrinth buried beneath a small town hidden at the base of an obscure mountain range in Northern California... and that's just where the High Strangeness begins. Here's the publisher's description of EXTREMELY BIZARRE...
A lonely man gets more than he bargained for after ordering a hand-in-a-can from an old magazine.
Enter a world where face pareidolia is deadly and one mistake can lead to a horrifying death.
Join a traumatized woman as she returns to the place of her son’s death, looking for something to fill the hole in her life.
Extremely Bizarre is an exquisite collection of eleven tales accompanied by detailed illustrations.
Featuring stories by: Robert Guffey, T.M. Morgan, Shaun Avery, Sergi G. Oset, Kevin J. Kennedy, Irene Ferraro-Sives, Cliff McNish, B. Patrick Lonberg, Todd Love, Melanie Atkinson, and Gerard Houarner.
Expect Extreme Horror. Expect Bizarro. Expect therapy.
You can buy a copy of EXTREMELY BIZARRE right HERE!
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"The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now—with somebody—and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives."
--Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in America: Beginning of the End," 9-12-01 (p. 90 of HEY RUBE: BLOOD SPORT, THE BUSH DOCTRINE, AND THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DUMBNESS)
On September 1, the preliminary ballot opened for the 2022 Wonderland Awards. There are many weird and wonderful books represented on this list, not the least of which are such peculiar works of bizarro fiction as Full Metal Octopus by Carlton Mellick III, Snap! Crackle! Fuck You! by Simon Ore Molina, Suburban Gothic by Brian Keene and Bryan Smith, Things Were Easier Before You Became a Giant Fucking Mantis by Matthew A. Clarke, Bodies Wrapped in Plastic and Other Items of Interest by Andersen Prunty, Don’t Push the Button by John Skipp, In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files, and The Next Time You See Me I’ll Probably Be Dead by C.V. Hunt. Included on this preliminary ballot is my own 2021 Eraserhead Press collection entitled WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION & OTHER WEIRD CRIMES. If you want to check out the complete list of titles, simply click HERE. Voting ends on September 30!
"The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. BizarroCon will not be held this year, but the 2021 awards, for books published in 2021, will be presented in November. Voting for the Wonderland Book Award preliminary ballot begins now for the Best Bizarro Novel and Best Bizarro Collection of 2021. Below is a list of all eligible titles. Please send your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place votes in the Novel and Collection categories to bizarrocon@gmail.com with the subject line 'Wonderland Book Award Preliminary Ballot.' Preliminary voting ends September 30, 2022."
If you want to purchase a copy of WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION & OTHER WEIRD CRIMES, click HERE!
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The debut episode of TRUCKERS AFTER DARK features an interview with Yours Truly about my books CHAMELEO and SPIES & SAUCERS and related High Weirdness! Topics include Col. Sanders, Soylent Green, dog food, Phillip K. Dick, Charles Fort, and nonlethal weapons! The segment about my second book, SPIES & SAUCERS, covers the OSS, the CIA, UFOS, invisible predators, Curt Siodmak, DONOVAN'S BRAIN, mind control, MK-ULTRA, Dr. Jose Delgado, the 1950s Communist Blacklist, and THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN! To listen to the entire interview, click HERE! (The interview starts at 42:00.)
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