PIECEMEAL JUNE

Jordan Krall is a signature author of the Bizarro fiction movement, and this book is a typical example of Bizarro lit, reveling as it does in easily digestible black humored weirdness

RAIN

This graphic novel collects the six issues of writer/illustrator Rolf F. Stark and co-writer Marlene Stevens’ early nineties underground comic RAIN

THE WOLF

From Los Angeles based artist Tom Neely, a most unique and fascinating “painted novel” that operates on the same level as an especially weird David Lynch movie

THE WASP FACTORY

This is, quite simply put, the finest horror novel of the 1980s, and one of the most accomplished first novels I’ve ever read

THE OTHER SIDE

A stunning exercise in subconscious dementia that preceded Kafka and the surrealists by nearly two decades

VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Book)

A real curiosity: a surrealist novel masquerading as a gothic thriller that never entirely satisfies as either. Rather, it’s a rare book that exists in its own indefinable category

VACATION

Fans of the late Philip K. Dick will appreciate this hallucinatory first novel, as will all those unafraid of challenging, thoughtful writing