Reviews: “Don’t Smell the Flowers! They Want To Steal Your Bones!” and “The Vine That Ate The Starlet”

“Don’t Smell the Flowers! They Want To Steal Your Bones!” by Duncan P. Bradshaw On sale here. When a crime drama focuses on an unconventional detective who “doesn’t do things by the book”, this usually doesn’t mean that said detective stores equipment in his anus for quick retrieval. But does the world really need another…

Reviews: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Head Case” and “Girl Like a Bomb”

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Head Case” by Lee Widener On sale here. Revolution is like rock music. It’s destructive, it’s fuelled by the energy of disenfranchised youth, and it smashes people’s perceptions of the nature of the reality they thought they knew. These are the themes of Rock ‘n’ Roll Head Case. I read this book’s…

Reviews: “Terror Mannequin” and “Impossible James”

"Terror Mannequin" by Douglas Hackle On sale here. In bizarro fiction, strangeness, grotesquery and humour are like the three faces of a divine trinity, and Terror Mannequin keeps all three of these elements in a near-perfect balance throughout its length. It’s a truly bizarre premise; a man whose paid job is basically just to have…

Reviews: “Cucumber Punk” and “Hell of Death”

"Cucumber Punk" by P.A. Douglas On sale here. It’s a world of industrial pollution, bigotry, media spin and the lower classes being ground into the dirt by violent and relentless consumerism. It’s Earth. Except some people are born with vegetables for heads. And that’s pretty cool. The author of Cucumber Punk succeeds in creating a…

Reviews: “Giantess Globalist Sperm War” and “The Haunted Vagina”

"Giantess Globalist Sperm War" by Mandy De Sandra On sale here. “Men can be better.” If you didn’t learn as much from a Gillette commercial, then maybe this story about women evolving into giants and using adolescent men as sperm is a better catalyst for this theme. Giantess Globalist Sperm War is a bizarro novella…