Bizarro Bytes

For $12, Subscribers receive 12 new, previously unpublished short stories by Jeremy C. Shipp. One story a month.

These twisted tales of bizarro, horror, and dark fantasy are emailed to Subscribers in ebook format (PDF, Mobi, or ePub). The stories range from 2500 to 6000 words.

After you subscribe, we'll contact you about your preferred email address and ebook format.

Subscribe in June, and you're entered to win a personally-inscribed trade paperback copy of Jeremy's novel, CURSED (coming Halloween 2009).

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About Subscripion levels:

Higher level subscriptions are available for those readers who want to provide us with extra support and receive special bonuses in addition to the 12 stories. The names of these special Subscribers are listed on this site as yard gnome patrons.

Chocolate-coated Subscription bonus:
-Your name (or a name of your choosing) will appear in one of Jeremy's future stories.

Gold-plated Subscription bonuses:
-Jeremy will write a short story based off of a title you come up with.
-Your name (or a name of your choosing) will appear in one of Jeremy's future stories.

Super-powered Subscription bonuses:
-You'll send Jeremy a list of 5 things, and Jeremy will write a story that incorporates all 5.
-Your name (or a name of your choosing) will appear in one of Jeremy's future stories.
-Jeremy will write a short story based off of a title you come up with.

Gnome Art by Chris Roberts

Note: Jeremy reserves the right to ask for another title or list of 5 things. He won't exercise this right unless he finds the title/list outside his personal boundaries. For instance, if the title is racist or sexist.

Questions? Comments? Would you like to upgrade your Subscription level or pay by check? Please contact us at bizarrobytes@gmail.com

Check out some of Jeremy's stories for free:

-Scratch
-Camp
-Parasite
-trout

Bio:

Jeremy C. Shipp's work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 50 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Pseudopod, and The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue). While preparing for the forthcoming collapse of civilization, Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse with his wife, Lisa, and their legion of yard gnomes. He’s currently working on many stories and novels and is losing his hair, though not because of the ghosts. His books include Vacation, Sheep and Wolves, and Cursed. And thankfully, only one mime was killed during the making of his first short film, Egg.

Praise for Jeremy's work:

"Shipp's clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go."
--Jack Ketchum

"Vacation is an intriguing, challenging, literate, provocative novel I'm not sure I understand and suspect I'm not meant to; I recommend it to those who find reality boring; it may make them see it in new ways."
--Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth series

"If young Kurt Vonnegut had written Catcher in the Rye for the global village, it might have played a lot like this. Vacation is a tight little fable about massive, sprawling, real-life problems: chief among them, our ability to fiddle while Rome burns. The prose is extra-crispy, the wisdom is genuine, and the mindfucks come a mile a minute. Jeremy Shipp is a very good drug. I hope this book gets banned in high schools soon!"
--John Skipp

"Jeremy C. Shipp's Vacation is a surreal, bizarre, and utterly captivating tale. This ambitious story covers a lot of territory: it's disturbing, funny, thoughtful, and even touching. A wildly unpredictable first novel from one WEIRD author."
-Jeff Strand, author of The Sinister Mister Corpse

"Every once in awhile I read a debut novel that isn't like anything else I've ever read before. Jeremy C. Shipp's surreal fantasy Vacation falls into that category. Part Voltaire-like satire, part Philip K. Dick mind-trip. What could have been merely "gonzo" fantasy is instead both serious and deep. Shipp displays a fanatical devotion to taking his character and situations just one step further than most writers."
-Realms of Fantasy

"It's rare to find a work that claims to be a mind-bender actually live up to its claims, but Jeremy Shipp's Vacation does just that. Imagine the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey set in a deceptively everyday world that quickly- and effectively-jumps into William S. Burroughs territory by way of Donald Barthelme...and even that comparison won't prepare you for the head-trip that awaits you in these pages. The mundane turned mystical turned metaphysical turned indescribable. This is a genuinely one-of-a-kind trip, and one you won't want to miss."
-Gary A. Braunbeck, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winner, author of Prodigal Blues, Destinations Unknown, and Mr. Hands

"None of the usual accolades work for Jeremy Shipp's Vacation. The reader is not amazed, astounded, or aggrieved - the reader is achingly curious, alarmingly moved, and at the end, astonished by the vision and darkness and redemption. No one writes like Shipp, and that's a great thing."
-Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales

"I'm convinced Jeremy Shipp is a little bit crazy, in the best possible way. Vacation is edgy, surreal, and original. This is one of those books that alters your brain in a way similar to Philip K. Dick. A very good first novel."
-Jeff VanderMeer, author of City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword

"I don't think there has been a more aptly titled book in recent memory than Jeremy Shipp's Vacation. This sprawling psychological pseudo-fantastical surrealistic mind-trip of an adventure story demands that you step out--far, far, far out--of your comfort zone, and embrace the possibilities of a universe that may be a dream, a nightmare, or just wishful thinking. Vacation is a headfirst dive into the rabbit hole, assuming those rabbits lined their burrow with mirrors, because as bizarre as this novel ultimately appears to be on the surface, there's very little here that we won't find in ourselves, assuming we're brave enough, and know how and where, to look. For now, we will have to content ourselves with author Shipp's efforts to do that very thing on our behalf."
-Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Currency of Souls, The Turtle Boy, and The Hides

"Vacation is a potent social theory, a spiritual hopscotch from start to finish. With interesting scenarios and thought-provoking dialog, it is a compelling reason for fans of psychological fantasy to look up Jeremy Shipp."
-Jesse Gordon, author of The Reformed Citizen

"Jeremy Shipp delivers a first novel that is surprisingly readable and thought-provoking; one worthy of being included in a college course on dystopian fiction."
-Dru Pagliassotti, The Harrow

"Vacation is a diverse, unpredictable, and intelligent read. Two thumbs up!"
-Midwest Book Review

"It packs a dizzyingly, stomach lurching, punch to the brain...It's one of the rare books that once I finished it, I started to read it again pretty much straight away."
-SciFi UK Review

"It's the scariest freaking book I've read in a decade, make no mistake....When people say 'New Horror,' this is the kind of book they're talking about, stuff for you existing horror fans who have grown tired of the usual overwritten delicacies of late-period Stephen King and the like. It comes with a big thumbs-up, and will undoubtedly become known eventually as a dark classic from this prolific underground author."
-CCLaP

"If you want to know what's happening on the edge of speculative fiction, Sheep and Wolves will serve as an excellent introduction - its stories are challenging, unsettling, and deeply meaningful."
-The Harrow

"I once called Shipp one of the more 'bizarre of the bizarro writers,' and with SHEEP AND WOLVES, he really lives up to that title."
-Horror Fiction Review

"A stark fever-dream of a book. Shipp's flashbang stories will turn your mind inside-out."
-Ronald Damien Malfi, author of Passenger

"Sheep and Wolves is a poster-child for the Bizarro genre: dream-like stories drenched in psychedelic imagery, and enough thematic layers and multiple meanings to keep scholars pontificating for years to come."
-Matthew Warner, author of Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word and Eyes Everywhere

"Jeremy C. Shipp has established himself as a new, haunting voice in dark fiction. With the release of his first collection of mind-bending, spine-tingling, (perhaps gut-wrenching), stories, Shipp solidifies his growing reputation. He'll make you laugh, scream, and cry... perhaps all at once."
--Shroud Magazine

"Jeremy C. Shipp writes about horrible things in marvelous ways. SHEEP AND WOLVES is a compulsively readable collection (I read the sucker in three sittings) filled with resplendent moments of satire, gruesome contrivances, and some of the sharpest, funniest dialogue around. These stories had me cringing and laughing out loud simultaneously. Of course trying to box SHEEP AND WOLVES in as merely a gore and giggles affair would be doing the collection a serious disservice. Each of the stories contained within offer up odd instances of insight that elevate the work and paint a compelling view of our sometimes beautiful, sometimes insidious humanity. A weird, funny, brutal, transcendent read. Highly recommended."
-Michael Louis Calvillo, Bram Stoker Finalist author of I WILL RISE