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Cover of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Issue #6, Summer 2012

The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Issue #6, Summer 2012

August 2012

Editor Jeff Burk
Cover art Carlton Mellick, III
Publisher Eraserhead Press
Price $6.95
Pages 86+[12]
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  • The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction is a perfect-bound, small-press magazine dedicated to the Bizarro writing culture.
  • Date of printing is from Amazon.com as of 2013-01-29. The publisher's website doesn't seem to have been updated to include this item.
  • The last sixteen unnumbered pages are a catalogue of various Bizarro publishers' books that can be ordered on Amazon.com.
  • The illustration on the title page is excerpted from “The Meat Garden”, the comic story by Richard Tingley and Cameron Pierce.
  • ”The Meat Garden” is a comic story that is untitled on its first page. Title is from the contents page.

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
3 Essay Non Fiction A Rant from the Editor (The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Issue #6, Summer 2012) Jeff Burk
4 Short Fiction Fiction Weeds is Weeds, Dead is Dead Kevin Dole 2
9 Short Fiction Fiction Morbid Beavers Cameron Pierce
18 Short Fiction Fiction Ogner Stump's One Thousand Sorrows, No. 111: The Taxman (comic strip) Andrew Goldfarb
19 Short Fiction Fiction Ogner Stump's One Thousand Sorrows, No. 112: Television (comic strip) Andrew Goldfarb
20 Short Fiction Fiction Ogner Stump's One Thousand Sorrows, No. 113: Vague Directions (comic strip) Andrew Goldfarb
21 Short Fiction Fiction Ogner Stump's One Thousand Sorrows, No. 114: Arduous Climbs (comic strip) Andrew Goldfarb
23 Short Fiction Fiction Red World Carlton Mellick, III
36 Short Fiction Fiction The Lunch Date Bradley Sands
38 Short Fiction Fiction Whalemancer at Sea World Kevin Shamel
54 Short Fiction Fiction The Meat Garden (comic strip) Richard Tingley & Cameron Pierce
56 Essay Non Fiction Thinking Distant Thoughts: Author Spotlight on Kris Saknussemm Cameron Pierce & Kirsten Alene
57 Review Non Fiction Zanesville Cameron Pierce & Kirsten Alene & Kris Saknussemm
60 Essay Non Fiction Behind Space Cougar! How Seventeen Writers and One Con Changed the Face of Science (and Bizarro) Fiction Christopher Reynaga & Spike Marlowe
62 Short Fiction Fiction Space Cougar! S. Hutson Blount & Peter V. Brett & Erin Cashier & Spike Marlowe & Alan DeNiro & Gordon Van Gelder & Jay Lake & Nick Mamatas & Carlton Mellick, III & E. C. Myers & Devin Poore & Christopher Reynaga & Ken Scholes & John Skipp & Peter Straub & Michael Swanwick & Jackson Juiceely
65 Essay Non Fiction Lloyd Kaufman Writes about the New York Public Library, Candide, Voltaire, and Bestiality Lloyd Kaufman
66 Short Fiction Fiction Candide, Chapter XVI (excerpt) Voltaire
72 Essay Non Fiction The 7 Types of Bizarro Fiction Haters Carlton Mellick, III
76 Review Non Fiction Armadillo Fists Daniel Vlasaty & Carlton Mellick, III
76 Essay Non Fiction Bizarro Book Reviews various
76 Review Non Fiction Gargoyle Girls of Spider Island Gabino Iglesias & Cameron Pierce
77 Review Non Fiction We Live Inside You Gabino Iglesias & Jeremy Robert Johnson
78 Review Non Fiction Cripple Wolf Gabino Iglesias & Jeff Burk
80 Review Non Fiction Zombie Bake-Off Gabino Iglesias & Stephen Graham Jones
81 Review Non Fiction Hooray for Death! uncredited & Mykle Hansen
82 Essay Non Fiction Review of non-genre novel: Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands Gabino Iglesias
83 Review Non Fiction A Town Called Suckhole S. T. Cartledge & David W. Barbee
83 Review Non Fiction All-Monster Action Nathan Filizzi & Cody Goodfellow
84 Review Non Fiction The Handsome Squirm Katherine Daubert & Carlton Mellick, III
86 Essay Non Fiction Bizarro Books That Never Were: Island of the Super-People Kevin Shamel

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Issue #6, Summer 2012 Jeff Burk
Cover Art Non Fiction The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Issue #6, Summer 2012 Carlton Mellick, III
1 Interior Art Non Fiction The Meat Garden (excerpt) Richard Tingley & Cameron Pierce
67 Interior Art Non Fiction Candide, Chapter XVI (excerpt) uncredited