Surreal Comedy

John Doe always assumed his father was nuts. Then the Bureau of the Bizarre showed up at his door with a job offer. Now he’s a Collector, tasked with mopping up the mess reality leaves behind when it gets drunk and shits the bed. His office is The Deep Estate, a bureaucratic labyrinth carved out of the Backrooms. His partner is Edith Sinner, who is absolutely not a vampire.

*2000 Insulting Sentences You Would Like to Say to Anybody* This volume is a comprehensive collection of absurdist verbal abuse, spanning 2,000 numbered entries. Operating on a principle of *linguistic mischief* rather than genuine malice, the book employs a series of recurring structural devices to generate its surreal, often nonsensical effect. **Core Structural Patterns:** The collection relies on several repeatable formulas that allow for near-infinite variation: - **The Convention Comparison:** "You're about as useful as a [adjective] [noun] at a [noun] convention." This is the ...

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination with this New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive. You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate...

The complete soundtracks of the first three series of the award-winning sitcom, plus two Christmas Specials Television’s favourite grumpy old man, Victor Meldrew, railed against the inanities and injustices of modern life for over a decade. His darkly comic predicaments kept One Foot in the...

""Michele Gerber Klein—at long last—gives Gala Dalí the close-up she deserves. When Gala met Salvador, they met their destinies. Surreal takes us backstage at the endless performance piece that was the couple’s life’s work and life’s play—a salient ingredient—and reshuffles art...

Gordon Walker is a cop. He's also a serial killer. When he inherits his dead uncle's cabin in the woods, he discovers a strange stone door hidden in the cellar. Behind it lies a place that shouldn't exist. And something Gordon should never have looked at. Now he's being stalked by a mysterious stranger who can't be stopped, can't be reasoned with, and won't leave him alone. Gordon has spent his life hunting people for fun. Now it's his turn to run. THE MAN FROM BELOW is a blood-soaked cocktail of cosmic horror, pitch-black comedy, and grindhouse madness. Packed with 80s pop culture, ...

Stuck in neutral and detached from his own life, a solitary narrator finds his quiet routine upended when a silent phantom named Elliot takes up residence in his living room. Indifferent and oddly ordinary, Elliot becomes a permanent fixture in the house as a subtle, persistent mirror to everything the narrator has left unsaid. We Live Here is a sparse, razor-sharp exploration of grief, and the strange and unexpected turns that pull us back toward the living world.

PLEASE DON’T BUY THIS BOOK. You’ll only encourage him. Nobody elected him. Nobody appointed him. Nobody can find the paperwork. Nevertheless, he’s the King. Alongside a deeply unimpressed Donkey, the King sets about tackling the important problems of modern life using questionable logic, unnecessary committees and something called The Wingle Protocol, which nobody understands but everyone agrees sounds important. There are carrots. There are meetings about meetings. There’s a fixed-price time machine. William the Conqueror somehow gets involved with ChatGPT. Artificial intelligence ...

The King is still King. Probably. This should be reassuring. It isn’t. The kingdom has decided it needs Growth, although nobody has managed to establish what Growth actually is. A Ministry of Growth is created. A Ministry of Business follows. Forms multiply. Meetings become larger. And the Royal Legal Department adopts a reassuring new policy: DENY EVERYTHING. ADMIT NOTHING. INVOICE IMMEDIATELY. Meanwhile, Donkey apparently owns a carrot farm. Donkey denies this. The farm continues to exist anyway. Then Mrs Donkey arrives — organised, confident and considerably more capable than almost ...

WHAT IF DONALD TRUMP DIED… AND NO ONE WANTED HIM? In this darkly hilarious and politically sharp work of satire, Donald J. Trump arrives in the afterlife—where even the divine are exhausted. Denied entry to both Heaven and Hell, he’s bounced through a surreal cosmic bureaucracy filled with audits, errors, and purgatorial loops that feel suspiciously like Mar-a-Lago with worse lighting. INSIDE THIS SATIRICAL AFTERLIFE, YOU’LL FIND: God and Satan, arguing over whether he’s their problem A Wharton ethics class taught by Jimmy Carter A Twitter account that’s reinstated, suspended, ...

The King is back. Nobody asked him to be. The castle is still standing, although nobody seems entirely certain why. Donkey is still Donkey. Keith is a very small goat with a worrying interest in official paperwork. Tristan the goldfish has somehow become an important strategic adviser despite never actually saying anything. And then there are the two Tonys. They are magpies. They are both called Tony. They disagree about everything. What follows involves suspicious carrots, missing teaspoons, unnecessary committees, an accordion, government departments that probably shouldn’t exist, a ...

The complete soundtracks of the final three series of the hugely popular sitcom, plus five Christmas Specials One Foot in the Grave dominated the airwaves in the 1990s, running for six series and seven Specials over more than a decade and attracting audiences of almost 20 million at its peak...

You've got your greedy little claws on Key's audiobook. It represents the most comprehensive collection of poeticals put together to date. Whichever way you care to look at this, it is pretty much a wall of poems. There are lots of them. Too many maybe. If there's such a thing as too many poems...

How do you teach an infinite House that “welcome” does not mean “you live here now”? Runni Vagna and Damion Atropa are gifted Hypno Doms with a talent for turning suggestion, desire, and ambitious ideas into experiences nobody forgets. Then Dionysus names them his champions, enhances their abilities, and enters them into the Great Game. In the Great Game, gods, monsters, and mysterious Sponsors wager on people’s choices. Attention becomes power. Success earns status. Failure attracts an even larger audience. Their first supernatural test is supposed to be simple: One party. One ...

You picked up a Node—an ordinary-looking object with an unfair advantage: it turns everyday life into a readable map. A Pocket Universe is a room you can enter without leaving your life. The world outside stays the same—work, family, love, money, hunger, pride—but the noise stops pretending it’s neutral. You start noticing what was always there: who gets rewarded, who gets punished, who benefits when you stay confused, and what it costs to accept the role you’re being offered. That pattern is the Great Game: the invisible trade of attention, status, fear, desire, and control. It ...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a much-loved cult classic, that has spawned radio dramas, television, theatre and comic book adaptations across the globe. This new audio edition is hilariously narrated by Stephen Mangan...

The complete television soundtracks of all 12 episodes of the legendary BBC sitcom Ground-breaking, satirical and anarchic, The Young Ones introduced alternative comedy to mainstream TV, and made household names of its writers and performers. It ran for two series on BBC Two between 1982 and...

Being a hot billionaire just isn't what it used to be... To dirt-poor Wetta, romance novels aren’t a diversion, they’re a life plan. Certain her ticket out of Dullsville lies between those steamy pages, she spends her days crafting her own catalogue of the demure, waiting for her hero-in-a-Jag to appear. Everything changes when she catches sight of “The One”—handsome, bed-hopping billionaire Veego Drake. Convinced he’s her destiny, Wetta crosses the country to track him down and start her glorious new life. Nothing prepares her for the rollercoaster ride that awaits. Treacherous...

Do you like plain vanilla sex, sobriety, and a sense of normalcy? Then this book isn't for you. In the tradition of Naked Lunch, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and Catch 22, comes a bizarre black comedy about power trips, insanity, and the dark side of sex. Brian Whitney – a dissolute, dead broke, alcoholic writer in Portland, Maine – is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of Dylan, a deranged, fantastically wealthy sex addict, who lives in Samoa with his two female sex slaves. Dylan’s had a profound spiritual awakening during a vision quest he went on with a local tribe. He thinks he met ...

Welcome back to chaos. This time… it’s heavenly. Sort of. After an unforgettable 24 hours without laws, our reality-hopping trio (myself, Mia, and our surprisingly authoritative dog Frosty) wake up in a new dimension: Paradise Lite™ — a suspiciously curated version of the afterlife where every need is met, every emotion is cataloged, and nothing is allowed to hurt. Including your feelings. Spoiler: it’s horrifying. With hour-by-hour misadventures in: Automated grief resolution pods, Angel yoga with judgmental goats, And a very passive-aggressive “Feedback from Your Past Life” ...