Monday, July 18, 2011

I Finally Know My Genre! Bizarro Fiction!

Hallucinations, Channeler and Hiding Darkly are more than Horror blended with  Sci-Fi, they are in the new genre of Bizarro. Wikipedia gives this genre a great description below:

"Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often utilizes elements of absurdismsatire, 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. The term was adopted in 2005 by the independent publishing companies Eraserhead Press, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Afterbirth Books. Much of its community revolves around Eraserhead Press, which is based in Portland, Oregon, and has hosted the BizarroCon yearly since 2008."