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Auf einer Schiffsreise trifft der Protagonist dieser recht merkwürdigen Geschichte nicht nur ihn, sondern auch die verstörend-betörende Herzogin von Vizzerona-Forli. Es entspinnt sich ein absurd-surrealer "Roadtrip" am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Bei abendlicher Heimkehr von der Arbeit räsonniert Blumfeld über sein Leben als Junggeselle, die Vor- und Nachteile des Alleinseins, den Wunsch nach einem Begleiter, wenigstens eines Beobachters seines einsamen Lebens. Vor- und Nachteile eines Hundes: einerseits immer erfreut, ihn zu sehen, andererseits Träger von Schmutz und gegebenenfalls schlimmen Krankheiten. Bei Ankunft in seiner Wohnung findet er tatsächlich zwei Begleiter vor, aber gänzlich andere als gedacht...

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

In the soul-crushing beige of an Idaho IRS office, where fluorescent lights hum endless and the radio loops forgotten hits, Elliot toils over tax forms, auditing losses that mirror his own. Trapped in a purgatory of mildew-stained carpets and petty office wars, he’s haunted by dreams he never chased, a life unlived. Amid the droning despair of coworkers reduced to shadows, each clinging to their rituals of donuts, weather reports, and futile team-building, a spark of chaos ignites, threatening to unravel the fragile order.

Das war's dann mit dem Jünger, Vasallen und Eiferer Der fast schon ernste viertletzte Teil der Daswarsdann-Trilogie »Welchen der beiden viertletzten Teile der Daswarsdann-Trilogie soll man zuerst lesen? Den vollkommen wahnsinnigen oder den fast schon ernsten?« Endlich eine hilfreiche Frage, liebe Kritik. Ich fürchte nur, meine Antwort wird euch nicht gefallen. »Warum nicht?« Na, ja. Ich kann nur sagen, was andere sagen. »Was sagen die denn?« Die einen sagen so, die anderen so. »Scheint egal zu sein, in welcher Reihenfolge wir die Teile abarbeiten«, sagen die Kritiker zu sich.

Was wäre, wenn du plötzlich eine Banknote im Wert von einer Million Pfund in der Tasche hättest – und sie nicht ausgeben dürftest? Doch statt Reichtum folgt eine schräge Achterbahnfahrt durch Gesellschaft, Gier und den Irrsinn des Anscheins. In bester Twain-Manier entfaltet sich eine humorvolle, clevere und zeitlose Satire, die zeigt, dass Geld nicht immer das ist, was es scheint.

Do Trees Know When They Fall? is a short fiction collection by Damon Stone. These "psi-fi" stories explore the strange, horrific, beautiful, and often ridiculous nature of consciousness — how it can warp and twist in ways that seem unimaginable when it isn't warping or twisting. The collection asks us to question the nature of "the human condition" by viewing it through strange lenses, in the hopes of uncovering whatever insights our "normal" lenses are unable to capture.

One dark, windy supermoon night in the near future, a woman's ill-timed tarot question rips open a portal between dimensions, unleashing cosmic chaos. Step right up to Venice Peach, a flamboyantly freakish circus on the gritty Venice Beach boardwalk, where bizarre talents and mind-bending spectacles are just the beginning. Get lost in a funhouse maze of reality-shattering events and untamed, sex-fueled showdowns.

The legal system was broken. So they replaced it with AI. That made it worse. When the world’s first artificial intelligence judge takes the bench, justice becomes faster, cheaper… and deeply unpredictable. Judge Gort Daylek doesn’t rely on precedent. He cites Wikipedia.

Dr. Eden Draco lives in “The Cone” shaped sanctuary in the middle of Derinkegel. Only young and healthy people roam the Cone. She doesn’t have to pay for food and drinks, education, housing, medical care or anything having to do with her upkeep. With assigned partners, the government made sure all the workers have nothing to want for. She lives in total bliss and happiness but feels like something is missing.

A seemingly unremarkable woman in her sixties stows away on dozens of flights. Inspired by a true story, THE SERIAL STOWAWAY celebrates the audacity of her tactics and the absurdity of her encounters, including a scholar of shrugging, a protester suing the CIA for implanting images in his brain, and the forgotten half of a comedy duo looking to resuscitate her career on reality TV. Comic and penetrating, this novel portrays the strength that can hide in invisibility.

Walter Schuler was undeniably dead, and there was no getting around that fact. But what led to his demise? Was there a goose involved in some way? Can a man truly be considered dead if no one in a position of authority is there to confirm it? Walter Schuler was gone, but did anyone actually care? As he rests in the deep freezer of his mansion, alongside a dead deer head that seems to have its own grievances with him, these are the kinds of questions he finds himself pondering.

Welcome to the Murder House. We investigate a Mystery House, one floor at a time. We start at the top. And work our way down through the Life-cycle of the insane house, picking up the jigsaw pieces to work out the deep mystery held within. And the Omega Circle group of friends are back. But terrible things are happening inside. All kinds of body horror and monsters and weird shit. Incredible things in deep bizarro surrealism.

Follow Alice as she tumbles into a world where hats are mad, cats vanish mid-sentence, and queens take croquet far too seriously. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland isn't just a book—it's a portal into delightful absurdity, linguistic acrobatics, and the kind of dream logic only Lewis Carroll could conjure. With wit sharper than the Queen's axe and characters as bizarre as your strangest dreams, this is the ultimate escape for the logically exhausted and the wonderfully curious. Step through the looking... no, wait—that's another story. Just follow the White Rabbit.

Yah! Yah! Yah! written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath. In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up.

Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our modern age—an age of collapse—Ben Faulkner has created an unforgettable character wary of work, college, relationships, and the world at large, becoming an unstable young man moving toward an act of terrifying violence. Will he survive the gothic America of The Agonies?

Der Floh Grüter Blasius lebt glücklich und halbwegs zufrieden auf seinem Schweinebauernhof. Seine Leidenschaft ist das Dressurreiten. Nichts ist für ihn interessanter, als sein Reittier zu beobachten und die Natur des Menschen zu entschlüsseln. Aber obwohl er der Beste ist, wird ihm der Titel "Dressurreiter" von Trabbelsberg verwehrt. Also wird ein Plan entwickelt, um das große Ziel zu erreichen.

Clay Donovan thought dying was the end of his troubles, but fate isn’t done with him yet. Assigned as a temporary Death Walker, he makes one reckless decision—sparing the life of a social media influencer. Now, death is out of balance, and every life saved means another is lost. Now, something ancient and unforgiving is watching, waiting, and Clay is running out of time to fix his mistake before the cost becomes permanent.

Un día Matías Pascal, bibliotecario en Sicilia, lee en un periódico la florida reseña de su propia muerte. Toda la novela es una profunda reflexión sobre la constante pugna por establecer una identidad definida y tener un lugar bien definido en el mundo.

Vienna, settembre, poco dopo l'alba: una telefonata comunica a Ruth, giovane fisica teorica, che i suoi genitori sono morti in un incidente stradale; qualche ora dopo, viene a sapere da una zia del loro desiderio di essere sepolti a Groß-Einland, paesino della Bassa Austria dove entrambi sono nati ma non l'hanno mai portata.