Bizarre Times

From pro wrestling and Pokémon to Vince McMahon and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late '90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and society today.

Erik thinks his problems are in the past after leading the slave revolt in The Valley of Despair only to discover that, while he was trapped in the time-warp surrounding the city, his alien captors had perfected a method whereby they might travel between the stars and had gone on to conquer every other planet in the known cosmos. But if the horrid grey men from Deneb think that Erik is going to just give up and die, they've badly misjudged the man. He'll never rest until the woman he loves, his friends, and his planet are free again. Although the odds are stacked against him, Erik will ...

"Every bit as mind-bending and captivating as classic Murakami." -- Rusted Reviews “Stick with it to the plot twist and then you won’t want it to end.” -- A Feast of Books -------------------------------------------------- Why did she die? How much did I really know her? These are the questions Benny asks himself after finding Staci in the bathtub with her wrists slit. He spirals into a bout of depression. Two weeks later, she reappears as if nothing happened. But only for one night, and then she’s gone again. Two weeks later, it happens again, forcing Benny to ask himself a new set...

Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

Weird Tales . . . Derek Hanes has always been lucky. Things always came easy. Maybe too easy. After always getting what he wants, his luck might be about to change when his polar opposite shows up on his doorstep Some people think the world is out to get them, but since the day he was born, that has been Otto's reality. He's been a boy on the run from an entire planet, with only a hired assassin standing between him and the 8 billion people trying to kill him. Salvadore Nash gets paid to find things. But his latest case finds him in possession of a mysterious artifact that has everyone ...

Tuck has an obsession with time and an extreme dislike for funerals. Furthermore, he hates winter and wants for nothing more than a return to his cozy bed. Braving the elements Tuck's desire for a speedy service is answered. Still, might there be consequences for wishing his life away? The recipient of a Five-Star review from Readers' Favorite, A Place of Rest is another astounding short story from award-winning author Robert E. Kearns. Now with a Five Star Editorial Review from Readers' Favorite

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....

A short tale concerning a strange email received. Elements of time travel teleportation, alternate realities/universes.