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The Slave State: A place where dogs tire of their lovesick masters and compose novels for benign publishers. A place where love and murder are equally important to the development of young men. A place where everyone is a slave to their minds and their hearts. From one of literature's most daring writers, Chris Kelso invites you to explore his mind-bending universe with nine short stories-a collection that challenges the boundaries of genre and the limits of the heart.

A killer turd is on the loose! Barry Gilbert is fed up with getting picked on and tired of not having a girlfriend. He learns how to summon a demon, but screws up the ritual. Benzonah, demon of the seven Hells, is born deep within Barry's bowels. After a major stomachache, the demon, constituted of fecal matter, is excreted. The demon does Barry's bidding, exacting revenge, and acquiring the girl of Barry's dreams. But little does Barry know the demon has plans of his own.

Los Angeles, the City of Angels. At least, that's what the brochure says. What it fails to mention is the earthquakes. Oh, and the flesh-eating creatures that are lying dormant beneath the concrete, waiting for the chance to surface once again.Their wait is over...A quake tears the city apart, but that's the least of the Angelenos' worries. They're about to experience hell on earth. Fossor Scarabaeus - clown-beetles - are emerging from the cracks, and they're not in LA for the sights.An arrogant actor, an action movie director, a B-movie starlet, the owner of a bar and the 'A' Platoon of LAFD must work together to survive the creatures.Or risk becoming dinners for the Skinners...

The genre known as bizarro has been up and coming for quite some time. With Bizarro Pulp Press' first anthology, filled with the totally outrageous and chaotic, it is obvious that the genre is thriving anew. Along with both seasoned veterans and authors just stepping out, this anthology has something for everyone in the bizarro world. We love what we do. And so do these authors. Meghan Arcuri, Andrew Wayne Adams, Vincenzo Bilof, Max Booth III, G. Arthur Brown, Jeff Burk, Nick Cato, Alan M. Clark, Edmund Colell, David Conover, William Cook, Christopher T. Dabrowski, Danger_Slater, James Dorr, P. A. Douglas, Ethan Evans, Randy Fox, Daniel W. Gonzales, R. A. Harris, Emily Hunerwadel, Gabino Iglesias, MP Johnson, Dawid Kain, Sean Leonard, Jan Maszczyszyn, Todd Nelsen, Daniel Pendergraft, Tony Rauch, Dustin Reade, James Reith, Michael Allen Rose, Craig Saunders, Bruce Taylor, Kevin Ward, and Wol-vriey

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Jack is repressing something deep down - under his thrift store yeti costume - that only his therapist, Doc, can unearth. Starting with his visits to Cinema XXX Inferno, Jack's confessions begin to unlock more of his past than either of them bargained for. Can Doc heal what cuts the mythical beast's heart so deeply? Maybe Cassie, the dimple-faced girl from the thrift shop with a love for cosplay, can empower Jack with the confidence to confront his haunting past... But the smart and lovely Cassie has some troubles of her own to conquer.

Imagine a wild west that isn't just full of cowboys and outlaws, saloon girls and gamblers. Imagine a wild west that isn't just cacti, tumbleweeds and rolling desert as far as the eye can see. Imagine a wild west of mechanical horses, mutant killer plants, flying dinosaurs, headless indians and fearsome zombie gunslingers hell-bent on revenge.Imagine the Weird Wild West.Six colourful characters, some not entirely human, embark on a perilous journey south from Sunbleached Plains to Kellyville. A dapper dentist, a southern belle, a wealthy madam, a retired banker turned gambler, an orphaned boy and a travelling body-parts salesman all trade their various stories to pass the time.Driving the carriage is one Zeke "the Freak" Sarandon, a retired soldier with more than one strange, nervous habit. Although he is an experienced traveller, and the only one insane enough to take the most direct route south, even he cannot prevent his passengers from each meeting their grisly demise, one by one.Hot on the trail of the coach, astride an ancient mechanical horse blowing sparks and belching out toxic clouds of smoke, is a zombie gunslinger, the risen corpse of a murdered prospector.For on the carriage is the one who killed him, and he must have his horrible, bloody revenge.

"Gifune is on my very short list of must-read authors. I wouldn't miss anything he writes!' -Richard Chizmar, author of Chasing the BoogeymanSummer, 2017: Three troubled, middle-aged men return to their hometown to attend the funeral of a childhood friend, carrying with them secrets to a terrifying past that began forty years earlier. Summer, 1977: Fourteen-year-old Frankie Boy Molinari and his friends are enjoying their last months of freedom before beginning high school in the fall. Life in the Massachusetts town of Samoset is quiet and carefree, until a swarm of Gypsy Moths arrive. Left unchecked, they will defoliate the town and cause severe ecological damage. But something far worse has come to town along with them, an evil hidden within the swarm. Frankie's father claims to have seen it, and begins to lose his mind, and soon, reality as Frankie knows it transforms into something much darker and deceptive than he ever imagined possible. With everything in his once stable world crumbling around him, Frankie and his friends form a ragtag band of unlikely saviors, and become the only chance their town has to survive an entity so primal and horrific, they may never fully escape it. Shifting between the past and present, THE GYPSY MOTHS is a story of family, friendship, love, madness and loss, a coming-of-age tale with a shocking twist and an original take on a monstrous legend come to life.