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Issue 9 (Summer)

76 pages

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, werewolves, transsexuals, and Frankenstein monsters, step right up and see curiosities and monstrosities, wonders and horrors like you've never seen before! See the terror of the Antipodes, the ferocious platypus! Behold the dark, twisted longings of the Satanic progeny of the magus Joseph Smith! For the first time anywhere see the elusive metaphor in captivity! And see the most rare and shy of entities, here for your amusement is the good life! Step right up and break through the barriers set up to protect the tender juicy white meat of your fragile mind, step right up and watch as we BUST DOWN THE DOOR AND EAT ALL THE CHICKENS!

Includes stories by Shane Jones, Steve Aylett, D. Harlan Wilson, Christopher Higgs, Sean Casey, Ben Stein, Katy Wimhurst, and Ryan W. Bradley. Contains book reviews of Andersen Prunty's Zerostrata and Kevin L. Donihe's House of Houses. Cover art by Joe Havasy.

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Issue 8 (Fall 2008)

76 pages

Issue #8 demonstrates why this journal has been hailed as the figurehead publication for absurd and surreal literature. Throughout these pages readers will find a man with an endless supply of money in his pockets, a nun who finds teeth in her ice cream cone, and a giant mechanized Michael Ironside stalking the streets of Galveston, Texas. Readers will also find the apocalypse as experienced by the cast of Friends and a race of chickens that enslaves a man and forces him to eat the last egg ever to be eaten. No one theme or tone dominates this issue. Some stories feature mindless violence or irreal nonsense. Others display sharp cultural satire or brain-tingling wordplay. At a time when most fiction serves up the standard fare of realism and common sense, issue #8 offers a zany feast for the ravenous imagination.

Includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge. Contains book reviews of Duncan Barlow's Super Cell Anemia and Jeremy C. Shipp's Sheep and Wolves. Cover art by Jeffrey Kaminski.

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Issue 6 (Summer 2007)

Includes stories by Joey Goebel, Stephen Graham Jones, D. Harlan Wilson, Anthony Neil Smith, Jeremy C. Shipp, Bryson Newhart, Andrew Adams, Julius Henry, and Ryder Collins. Cover art by Brandon Duncan.

"Despite being around for just two years, Bust Down the Door & Eat All the Chickens has quickly become the figurehead publication for the Bizarro, Absurdist, and modern Surrealist literary movements. In every issue, editor/author Bradley Sands (It Came from Below the Belt) assembles an impressive line-up of groundbreaking prose from some excellent up-and-coming and established writers. The release of issue six continues the magazine's tradition of high-quality, offbeat fiction." [Read more...]
The Dream People

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Issue 5 (Winter 2007)

Includes work by Carlton Mellick III, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kris Saknussemm, D. Harlan Wilson, Kevin L. Donihe, Mo Ali, Andersen Prunty, David Holub, Francis Crot, and polycarp kusch. Cover art by Nikki Burch.

"Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens is not the eclectic mish-mash of 'odd' stories that it may come across as. The perfect bound, full colour cover presentation places it at the more professional end of the small press fringe, and the content, though varied, comes together to lend the publication a unique and recognisable identity. The quality of the writing is high and, for the most part, beautifully executed. This magazine is a hidden treasure that deserves to be discovered by anyone after cerebral entertainment." [Read more...]
HorrorScope

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Issue 4 (Spring 2006)

Includes work by D. Harlan Wilson, Kenji Siratori, John Edward Lawson, Kevin L. Donihe, polycarp kusch, Vincent W. Sakowski, Ray Fracalossy, Justynn Tyme, MicroSmith, Cameron Pierce, Jason Earls, Mo Ali, Ryan Bird, Dan Ward, and T.F.F.F.R.S.T.F.P.R. Cover art by Claudia Drake.

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Issue 3 (Summer 2005)

Includes work by Steve Aylett, D. Harlan Wilson, Alyssa Sturgill, polycarp kusch, John Edward Lawson, Kevin L. Donihe, Pugnacious Jones, A D Dawson, Gina Ranalli, MicroSmith, A.D. MacDonald, Vic Mudd, Simon Thurgood, Andrew Adams, and Swetha Raghunathan. Cover art by Chris Cox.

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Volume 2, Issue 1 (Winter 2005)

Includes work by John Edward Lawson, Kevin L. Donihe, Pugnacious Jones, Jimmy G, Andrew Adams, Bradley Sands, Dustin LaValley, Justin Curfman, Matthew Sideman, and Gina Ranalli. Cover art by Lucas Aguirre.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 (2003)

Edited by James Gardner and polycarp kusch

Includes work by John Edward Lawson, Hertzan Chimera, Kevin Donihe, Pugnacious Jones, polycarp kusch, satan165, James Gardner, Ace Avery, and Bob Freville.

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