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Bizarro Classicks
4 Classick Bizarro Novellas By Wonderland Book Award-Winner Emma Alice Johnson
The After-Life Story Of Pork Knuckles Malone
What's a farm boy to do when his pet pig becomes an evil hunk of ham with slime-spewing psychic powers?
Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill!
A cult of demented Wisconsin farmers sacrifices city dwellers to a forgotten god of agriculture and bring about the ultimate farmpocalypse!
Sick Pack
A male model's abs get sick of crunches and burst off his body to wreak disembodied destruction on the streets of Los Angeles!
Lake Lurkers
The Land of 10,000 Lakes is about to become the Land of 10,000 Deaths!
Content Contains depictions of violence, animal abuse, sexual assault, hate speech, ableism
The After-Life Story Of Pork Knuckles Malone
What's a farm boy to do when his pet pig becomes an evil hunk of ham with slime-spewing psychic powers?
Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill!
A cult of demented Wisconsin farmers sacrifices city dwellers to a forgotten god of agriculture and bring about the ultimate farmpocalypse!
Sick Pack
A male model's abs get sick of crunches and burst off his body to wreak disembodied destruction on the streets of Los Angeles!
Lake Lurkers
The Land of 10,000 Lakes is about to become the Land of 10,000 Deaths!
Content Contains depictions of violence, animal abuse, sexual assault, hate speech, ableism
382 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
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January 16, 2025
- The After-life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone => ⭐⭐⭐
- Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill! => DNF
- Sick Pack => ⭐
- Lake Lurkers => DNS
I have already suffered through three novellas. I won't take a fourth abuse, no thank you very much.
What a load of crap 😫
- Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill! => DNF
- Sick Pack => ⭐
- Lake Lurkers => DNS
I have already suffered through three novellas. I won't take a fourth abuse, no thank you very much.
What a load of crap 😫
July 12, 2024
The Emma Alice Johnson omnibus I’ve long been waiting for; includes 4 of her books and an essay that provides a good overview of the bizarro scene.
The novels gleefully blur the lines between genres: Lake Lurkers is an extreme horror creature feature, Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill! blends rural exploitation horror with cosmic phantasmagoria, and Sick Pack is a surprisingly sweet body horror romance. The After-Life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone defies any sort of easy label.
I love Johnson’s absurdist humour, just-go-with-it surrealism, and the way she subverts recognizable settings (ranging from farms and punk clubs to upper class suburbs and Hollywood hotspots) with nightmarish and revolting imagery.
What further elevates these works is Johnson’s empathetic approach to her characters. In between mutilations, Lake Lurkers explores how an unstable childhood has made its protagonist both averse to possessing anything and monomaniacally obsessed with preserving the sanctity of her house. Sick Pack’s Fabulo, who begins his tale as a vapid and narcissistic male model, gradually reveals himself to be sensitive and tenderhearted.
The novels gleefully blur the lines between genres: Lake Lurkers is an extreme horror creature feature, Cattle Cult! Kill! Kill! blends rural exploitation horror with cosmic phantasmagoria, and Sick Pack is a surprisingly sweet body horror romance. The After-Life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone defies any sort of easy label.
I love Johnson’s absurdist humour, just-go-with-it surrealism, and the way she subverts recognizable settings (ranging from farms and punk clubs to upper class suburbs and Hollywood hotspots) with nightmarish and revolting imagery.
What further elevates these works is Johnson’s empathetic approach to her characters. In between mutilations, Lake Lurkers explores how an unstable childhood has made its protagonist both averse to possessing anything and monomaniacally obsessed with preserving the sanctity of her house. Sick Pack’s Fabulo, who begins his tale as a vapid and narcissistic male model, gradually reveals himself to be sensitive and tenderhearted.
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