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.

"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...

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, ...

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...

What if the ending you were handed was not the ending you had to keep? The Eleventh Ending is a strange, funny, emotionally sharp collection of speculative stories about burnout, boundaries, banned books, adulting, love, grief, and becoming human anyway. Inside these pages, a retired fraud investigator buys an honest scam. A school compliance officer becomes the missing ending of a banned book. A woman learns that anger is not a flaw, it is an alarm. A trapped girl discovers that one person’s romance can be another person’s horror story. A writer summons a demon and finds out ...

In the small town of Upper Cupswater, Angela and Alan Godsick are preparing for their son Champ's ninth birthday. But what should be a simple celebration quickly spirals into something far stranger. A retired magician, a mysterious mango shipment, and a trick gone wrong turn their world upside down as reality begins to unravel in the most bizarre ways. As Angela and Alan scramble to make sense of the increasingly surreal events, they are drawn into a bewildering performance where nothing is quite as it seems. Can they uncover the truth behind the mysterious magician Rupert Russel before ...

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...

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 ...

The biggest joke in existence is that all of it was rejected by the Peer Review Committee. Universe Under Review is an absurd, sharply satirical take on evolution, told through the universe’s hopeless struggle against a catastrophically cautious Peer Review Committee. Every breakthrough that shaped reality is rejected on principle. The Peer Review Committee hated all of them. Particles? Too unstable. Stars? Too dramatic. Cells? Too experimental. Multicellularity? Absolutely not. Skeletons, lungs, warm blood? Denied for budgetary reasons. Fire? Introduces catastrophic risk without ...

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...

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...

What can one say about the 'jokey' content within these pages? Well, it provides no more than an opportunity for the author to smirk, in a quite mad fashion, and ensure that his readership will continue to bestow solitary heavenly bodies on his foul, pointless conjurings. You see, it's all rather funny... to him.

Welcome to the Fitzhugh multiverse of genteel chaos, spectral jazz goats, and one emotionally co-dependent gator named Elvis. In Cedric III: The Collected Chronicles, Southern society unravels through four decadent acts of absurdity, satire, and scandal. Colonel Cedric Beauregard Fitzhugh III—a reluctant aristocrat with a talent for catastrophe—faces murder-mystery brunches, cotillion combat, swamp courtroom drama, and existential alligator therapy, all while clutching his bourbon and wondering why the raccoons look so organized. With Arora Palindrome wielding her clipboard like a ...

A Romantic Comedy of Surreal Proportions If you love the satire of Airplane and the parody of Spinal Tap, then you'll love this insane journey into the romantic novel. Take one lovelorn southern belle, one mostly invisible pink unicorn spirit guide, then add 9 ill-fated lovers and retire to a safe distance. Can the sensational though desperate Emily Spankhammer find true love, or will that true love escape her once again? Billionaires, circus performers, Highlanders and Cajun chefs... could one be right for poor Emily, or does her spirit guide have other ideas? Littered with the finest ...

In a world of spycraft, betrayals, and reversals, a Stasi officer is unraveled by the cruel system he served and by the revelation of a decades-old secret, in this “story that John le Carré might have written for The Twilight Zone” (Washington Post). A BuzzFeed Best Book of 2020 On November...

Buffalo is melting. The sidewalks squirm. The cats have formed a militia. Max Noir—sarcastic detective, caffeine addict, and reluctant hero—just wanted his coffee. Instead, he finds himself ankle-deep in sentient goo, guilt-fueled hallucinations, and a grotesque game masterminded by a sourdough-born intelligence. As Buffalo oozes into madness, Max is forced to investigate a mystery that smells like burnt soup, features a psychic yeast tantrum, and may be targeting him personally. From a cheese-curd confession to a feline urine offensive, Max Noir is a genre-bending, noir-splattered ...

The award-winning 1990s sitcom, written by and starring Nick Revell Nick Revell plays a slightly stranger version of himself in this surreal comedy – a struggling writer in his mid-thirties who shares his untidy flat with Vince and Alan, a pair of talking geraniums. They, meanwhile, watch on...

Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay. Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence. “You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.” Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. “You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, ...

Percy and Pigeon live in separate apartments on the fourteenth floor of that strange building on Thirteenth Street, the brown building with brown trim, elevator that squeaks, rooftop that's out-of-bounds, basement that's always locked, tenants that haven't seen a marriage in thirty-three years . . . . . . haven't seen a marriage in thirty-three years, until the marriage of Percy and Pigeon, that is. Will their marriage change things for the tenants of this building? Will the basement get breached? Might the rooftop be reached? Recommended only for those who've considered reading the Bible ...