Carlton Mellick III
author of bizarro fiction
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"Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!"—Christopher Moore
"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale."—Cory Doctorow
CARLTON MELLICK III is an oafish gentleman with the stylishest of sideburns. He is one of the leading authors in the bizarro fiction genre—a booming underground movement that strives to bring weird, crazy, entertaining literature to the masses. Imagine a mixture of David Lynch, Dr. Suess, South Park, and Troma movies.
He lives in Portland, OR. Featured Titles
Village of the Mermaids
An eccentric doctor travels to an isolated village of carnivorous mermaids to investigate a new disease spreading through the herd of human livestock.
Dark and Dystopian.
Cuddly Holocaust
A tale of survival set in a world where most of the human race has been exterminated by vicious stuffed animals.
Apocalyptic and brutal.
Hammer Wives
Six novellas and short stories.
Kill Ball
A slasher thriller set in a city where everyone lives in plastic bubbles.
Dystopian and surreal.
Tumor Fruit
Seven castaways stranded on a bizarre deserted island must go to extremes in order to survive.
Surreal and disturbing.The Handsome Squirm
It's Franz Kafka's The Trial meets an erotic horror version of The Blob when a man is forced by law to marry an alien woman who devours her mates.
Absurd, dystopian and relevant.Armadillo Fists
Set in a world where people drive mechanical dinosaurs instead of cars, a female boxer with armadillo hands is on the run from deranged mobsters.
Pulpy and fun.
I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter
A parody of romantic comedies about a man who finds himself engaged to a succubus who's pregnant with his child.
Light and satirical.
Fantastic Orgy
One novella plus four short stories.
Barbarian Beast Bitches of the Badlands
The sequel to Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland.
The Morbidly Obese Ninja
A 700 pound killing machine must go against his corporate employers in order to save a terminal child.
Pulpy and fun.
Crab Town
A bizarre bank heist set in a radioactive post-nuke ghetto.
Dystopian and relevant.
Zombies and Shit
It's Battle Royale meets Return of the Living dead in a fight to the death game of survival where twenty contestants are put against each other in the middle of the zombie wasteland.
Apocalyptic, pulpy, and epic.
The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2
A group of adventurers learn they are actually fictional characters trapped in the worst Dungeons & Dragons campaign of all time.
Satirical and dumb.
Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
A Wonderland Book Award-winning novel about a three-armed man who finds himself in the middle of a war between a gang of road warrior werewolves and mutants from a dystopian version of McDonaldland.
Apocalyptic, pulpy, and epic.
The Cannibals of Candyland
A man finds himself imprisoned in an under ground world populated by child-eating mutants made of candy.
Erotic and horrific.
Apeshit
A parody of cabin in the woods horror stories where the victims turn out to be far more deranged than the mutant killers who hunt them.
Campy and fucked up.
The Egg Man
It is a survival of the fittest world where humans reproduce like insects, children are the property of corporations, and having a ten-foot tall brain is a grotesque sexual fetish.
Dark, dystopian, and ugly.
Cybernetrix
A dark and bizarre parody of the movie Tron where a game world and our world bleed together into one reality.
Pulpy and awesome.
The Faggiest Vampire
A bizarro children's book about two vampire rivals competing in a mustache contest to determine which one is the faggiest.
Cute and relevant.
The Ultra Fuckers
A landscaper and a trio of Japanese punks find themselves stranded in a suburban gated community that seems to go on forever.
Nightmarish and absurd.
Adolf in Wonderland
Nazis from an alternate world of absolute perfection go down the rabbit hole into a dark surreal world of chaos and imperfection.
Absurd and horrific.
Sausagey Santa
A bizarro Christmas story... filled with sex and violence.
Satirical and pulpy.
The Haunted Vagina
It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead.
Satirical and absurd.
Carlton Mellick III- New Eraserhead Press Releases — SPRING 2013 April 26, 2013The spring batch of books from Eraserhead Press.carltonmellick
- OUT NOW: “Village of the Mermaids” April 9, 2013Here it is. My 40th book is in print and now available at amazon.com.carltonmellick
- Village of the Mermaids – Preview April 3, 2013The scene takes place before the book begins and can be read as a stand-alone story.carltonmellick
- DEADITE PRESS RELEASES – Spring 2013 March 25, 2013The three Deadite releases of the Spring quarter are now available.carltonmellick
- OUT NOW: Cuddly Holocaust March 2, 2013The war between humans and toys has come to an end. The toys won.carltonmellick
- OUT NOW: Hammer Wives February 11, 2013My third story collection is now available. HAMMER WIVES Fish-eyed mutants, oceans of insects, and flesh-eating women with hammers for heads. Like a real world Kilgore Trout, cult author Carlton Mellick III has been pumping out dozens of the weirdest, trashiest, most imaginative books you’ve probably never heard of… even though you definitely should. Hammer […]carltonmellick
- New Editions of Ultra Fuckers, Teeth and Tongue Landscape, Cannibals of Candyland, and more. February 5, 2013New editions of five older titles now available.carltonmellick
- Bizarro Christmas Recommendations December 17, 2012Here are some bizarro books you can shove in your stocking!carltonmellick
- Now Available: The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction December 12, 2012Issue seven is now available.carltonmellick
- COMING IN JANUARY December 11, 2012Cuddly Holocaust and Hammer Wivescarltonmellick
- New Eraserhead Press Releases — SPRING 2013 April 26, 2013
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