![]() ![]() What it boils down to is this: Bizarro is the genre of weird stories that don’t really fit into any of the other mainstream genres. The only real way to describe it would be: weird.” In an interview with Fantasy Magazine, Eraserhead Press Publisher Rose O’keefe said, “It clearly wasn’t horror, science-fiction, fantasy, or even experimental fiction. There are several essays on the origins of the genre, but nearly all point to Eraserhead Press as the birthing place of the genre, though obviously “weird stuff” has been around a lot longer. ![]() The term Bizarro came into general use to identify the genre around 2006. That said, there really are no rules to the Bizarro genre. ![]() They expect stories that make sense, at least within the story’s own set of rules, and resonate with the subversive, satiric, and absurd. Bizarro is the genre of the weird, strange, grotesque, and bizarre, and it generally makes readers think, what the heck? (Though usually said in much stronger language.) While some authors write weird for the sake of being weird, most fans of Bizarro don’t consider those stories to be true Bizarro. ![]()
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