Bizarro Fiction - Television Tropes & Idioms

What is Bizarro fiction? Well, there are two ways to explain it: the long way and the short way.

The Short Answer

You ever wake up from a dream that made perfect sense at the time; but now that you're awake, you're left thinking, "What! Was! That!?" Bizarro Fiction is like that.

The Long Answer

Bizarro Fiction is a contemporary literary genre known for high weirdness. As the print media equivalent of the Cult Film, bizarro fiction strives to be not only strange but also thought-provoking and fun to read. Bizarro fiction takes place in a dreamlike alternate reality where the unexpected, unpredictable, unfathomable, or plain horrifying is commonplace. Think Magical Realism on... oh never mind... It'sit is it is it is AAAAAARRRRRRGGHH*splot* Frequently overlaps with Horror, Black Comedy, and Science Fiction.

Traits of Bizarro Fiction:

Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of the weird.
Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
Like cult movies, Bizarro is sometimes surreal, sometimes avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost always completely out there.
Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.
Bizarro often contains a certain cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities are made flesh.
Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.

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