Fiction - Absurdist

Gretty has more clutching at her than her mom's knapsacked ashes. Her legacy includes a web of stories: some from grandfathers who survived the Holocaust and some from parents who didn't. These stories are woven by living cultures and deadly traumas so much deeper...

Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish-style novel.The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about their lives. But one day, like thousands of people around the...

"A subtly existential collection in which each story defracts, complicates, compliments, and magnifies the others. Intense and satisfying, and very painfully human" -Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell and Song for the Unraveling of the World"Short-titled and tightly tense, each...

Word spreads from one recovering self-inflicted eye surgery patient to the next of a mystical book capable of overturning the Burlingtonian empire. Captivating and devious, the book of webs is constructed out of misremembered fragments, conflicting histories, and secrets whispered in the darkness. The...

The reader will find in this volume a series of practical and popular discourses, delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, treating upon the evils of the day, giving a clear and full exposition of said evels, and suggesting the remedies by which they may be...

Author: Maria RevaISBN-10: 1432877712ISBN-13: 9781432877712Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2020Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20dLarge Print

The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what's truly important in life.Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai...

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (...in a 1990s record company!)Aliens hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex's dream job has turned into a nightmare.What should she do?It's the 1990s....

"Invention Is a Mother is a sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. It made me laugh in despair and laugh in joy. I loved it."-Will...

Fact Check and More Probing Tales is the third anthology of previously-published short stories by award-winning James Hanna. Stories range from an air-headed farm boy who is adopted by a beautiful bird that squawks "Fact check" whenever the boy gets into an untenable situation...

"A grim spiral of honest body horror that's full of surprises. Kourtnea Hogan leads you across a teenage wasteland, lulling you in with tenderness before shocking you out of your skin." - Hailey Piper, author of Queen of TeethFirst-time author Kourtnea Hogan delivers a...

Archaeological illustrator, Beatrix Forster, accompanies her husband, retired archaeology professor, William Forster, to excavate the cemetery at San Miguel in Excelsis, an isolated medieval sanctuary in the mountains of northern Spain. Bill's former student, now a priest in Navarre, has enticed them out of...

Manchester. An hourly paid lecturer in a university art school writes fiction and poetry. He steals tea bags, screws and other useful items to get by. As he struggles with tiredness, depression and the quality of his writing output, he experiences nightmares about his...

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers.My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author of...

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did...

A crisis counselor at a failing Madison Avenue PR firm who suffers from a rare psychological disorder that compels him to eat inanimate objects finds himself in a crisis of his own when a disgruntled client employee discovers his secret and blackmails him into...

"I'm a connoisseur of the unwanted; a sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved. I am forever chased by the shadow of my ugliness. In darkness, no shadow remains, and it's all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be...

Tony Vicar is setting his sights on new (mis)adventures in this laugh-out-loud follow-up to The Liquor Vicar.Tony Vicar, now an internationally known celebrity -- due to greatly exaggerated news reports of his nearly miraculous powers -- has turned his attention to renovating his recently...

The Archeology of Yog-Sothoth is the third and final book of the Kathu Journals Out of Lovecraft's Providence series. The most preternatural details are revealed from a forensic study of elements of the physical Kathu Journals notebooks and their construction. What emerges is the...

Genealogy of Dialogic: A Map of Metaphors Encompassing Narrative-Time is the second book by absurdist author Alec Ontiveros. It explores the boundaries of story-telling to discover the source and sentiment of genre and narrative. Author: Alec OntiverosISBN-10: 0692113010ISBN-13: 9780692113011Publisher: Alec OntiverosLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2018Pages: 148Format:...

Cannibals and lions and murder - oh my Intrepid librarian H. R. Huxtable and his column of misfits are out to save Jepson's beleaguered British outpost in central Africa-battling rock-strewn rivers, bloody jungle, hungry cannibals, and each other. His toad-witted captains are slaves to...

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to...

Clashing social circles. Frenzied creations and bizarre inventions shared in workshops, rooftops, back alleys, house parties, and overstuffed conference rooms. Deep-set fears and doubts of the future, laid out with unlikely terms of endearment and funky flows of consciousness.Follow Li through a gallery of...

An all-too-familiar dystopia where public perception precedes reality and our identities are defined by what we consume.As head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose reputations have been ruined by scandal. But...

God in a Can is a collection of flash and micro fictions that looks at life through a surreal, and often humorous lens, at various societal behaviors, perceptions at a slant, and unusual scenarios. Paradoxically, the underpinnings, at the core, can be very real...

Flicker is a book of scraps - "mad little things, with no real reason for being" - from critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. This fictitious memoir (of sorts) is a chronicle of life on the road from a character living with untreated Dissociative Identity...

In Jason Heroux's disquieting third novel, Owen lives an enjoyable suburban life with his wife, Lila, until a knock at the door brings him face-to-face with a past he didn't know he had. The sudden revelation forces him to reconsider where he's from, what...

For fans of the deranged, the utterly weird, and most certainly the unspeakable... Bizarro Pulp Press brings you a buffet of curdled imagination and warped creativity of John Bruni. 21 stories ranging from monstrous genitalia and violent retirees, GG Allin, and Jesus Christ. Brian...

A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an...

In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world. His protagonist Alexander Simsar, during the last 3.3 seconds of his life in Berlin...

I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire...

What Is the Seventh Sense?The seventh sense is the one we live with daily, yet fail to acknowledge. We seek to understand it, yet it belies understanding. The seventh sense is the sense that doesn't make any sense-nonsense!Climb aboard the Bumps & Spuggett tour...

The seventh sense is the one we live with daily, yet fail to acknowledge. We seek to understand it, yet it belies understanding. The seventh sense is the sense that doesn't make any sense-nonsense!Climb aboard the Bumps & Spuggett tour bus with a group...

"A man's face hangs in the heat outside my aunt's car. Years ago, before I was born, it was my face. In the here and now of this aspen-green pearl Toyota Camry, woozy from the hot Sprite fumes, I am a mulch dealer reincarnate."Under...

An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains...