StokerCon 2026

In the early 2000s, a new subgenre peeled itself off of horror and slithered forward, picking up the detritus of other genres on its way. Bizarro fiction is the genre for people who don't like to color inside the lines. Too funny, too weird, too off-beat for traditional horror publishers, the bizarro community coalesced around the same purity of storytelling as children: no boundaries, no limits, and an internal logic that assumed it didn't matter how things would happen in the real world. From surreal lit fiction to pulpy insanity, and weirding up everything from spaghetti westerns to noir, Bizarro has come into its own over the past two decades, but still maintains a strong tie to its roots in the horror scene. How is the Adult Swim of literature helping shape modern horror? Let's talk about that.