Carlton Mellick III

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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 the Wonderland Book Award-winning author of over 45 novels, including Quicksand House, Bio Melt, Cuddly Holocaust and Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland. In 2013, he was named one of the top 20 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian UK. His work has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade, and Vice Magazine.

• Featured Titles

  

  The Bad Box
  A class of fifth grade students find themselves at the mercy of a malicious godlike teacher.
  Dark and absurd.

  

  Snuggle Club
  A short horror comedy that takes the art of communal snuggling to a whole new extreme.
  Awkward and creepy.

  

  Mouse Trap
  A group of school children try to survive an alien invasion within an abandoned amusement park.
  Dark and pulpy.

  

  The Boy with the Chainsaw Heart
  A Bio-Mech pilot drafted into Hell’s army must fight his way through a surreal afterlife in order to save his wife from slavery.
  Dark and pulpy.

  

  Neverday
  The story of what happens to society after everyone in the world gets trapped in a never-ending time loop.
  Dark and dystopian.

  

  Stacking Doll
  The story of a man who falls in love with a Russian nesting doll.
  Dark and surreal.

  

  Parasite MIlk
  A travel show producer is infected with deadly sexually transmitted parasites after visiting a brothel on an alien planet.
  Body horror science-fiction comedy.

  

  The Big Meat
  A kaiju tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack.
  Dark and gritty.

  

  Spider Bunny
  A group of college kids get trapped inside a deranged children’s cereal commercial from the 1980’s.
  Creepy and absurd.

  

  Exercise Bike
  The story of a man who transformed himself into a human exercise bike and the woman who is forced to ride him.
  Absurd body horror.

  

  The Terrible Thing That Happens
  In a post-apocalypse world, a small community of scavengers must survive by looting a grocery store that’s stuck in a time loop.
  Dark and surreal.

  

  Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes
  A tale of childhood love and spontaneous face explosions.
  Cute and disturbing.

  

  Bio Melt
  Within a toxic wasteland, six strangers find themselves trapped in an abandoned hotel, surrounded by a mysterious black ooze.
  Dark and surreal.

  

  ClownFellas
  Six interconnected novellas revolving around the Bozo clown crime family
  Surreal and Pulpy.

  

  As She Stabbed Me Gently in the Face
  A sociopathic killer meets an even more sociopathic victim
  Dark and strange.

  

  Sweet Story
  A children’s book gone horribly wrong.
  Dark humor.

  

  The Tick People
  In a city where people live like parasites on the back of a giant animal, a professional sadness-maker discovers that his soul mate is a hideous mutant.
  Dark and surreal.

  

  Hungry Bug
  In a world where magic exists, spell-casting has become a serious addiction.
  Gritty and pulpy.

  

  Clusterfuck
  A bunch of douchebag frat boys get trapped in a cave with subterranean cannibal mutants and try to survive not by using their wits but by following the bro code.
  Comical and violent.

  

  Quicksand House
  Two children who have never met their parents before, even though they live in the same house with them, must fight for survival once their nursery becomes uninhabitable.
  Dark and Dystopian.

  

  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 and dystopian.

  

  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.

• All Books by Carlton Mellick

  • Adolf in Wonderland
  • Apeshit
  • Armadillo Fists
  • Baby Jesus Butt Plug
  • Barbarian Beast Bitches of the Badlands
  • Cannibals of Candyland
  • Crab Town
  • Cuddly Holocaust
  • Cybernetrix
  • Egg Man
  • Electric Jesus Corpse
  • Faggiest Vampire
  • Fantastic Orgy
  • Fishy-fleshed
  • Hammer Wives
  • Haunted Vagina
  • I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter
  • Kill Ball
  • Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment
  • Menstruating Mall
  • Ocean of Lard
  • Punk Land
  • Razor Wire Pubic Hair
  • Satan Burger
  • Sausagey Santa
  • Sea of the Patchwork Cats
  • Sex and Death in TV Town
  • Steel Breakfast Era
  • Sunset with a Beard
  • Teeth and Tongue Landscape
  • The Handsome Squirm
  • The Morbidly Obese Ninja
  • Tumor Fruit
  • Ugly Heaven
  • Ultra Fuckers
  • War Slut
  • Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
  • Zombies and Shit

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  • Tom Bradley
  • Tony Rauch
  • Vincent Sakowski

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• Praise for Carlton Mellick III

  
  "If you like satires which are highly imaginative, subversive, gory, funny as hell and completely surreal CM3 may be your literary messiah."

  —Ricardo Gonzalez Del Valle

  
  "CM3 is the most imaginative writer since Lethem and Vonnegut. Different, and absolutely thought provoking..."

  —Daniel McCreary

  
  "Carlton Mellick creates fascinating and intricate worlds out of meat, slime, sexuality, wire, and the kind of nightmares that make you laugh when you wake up."

  —Jemiah Jefferson

  
  "Brilliant writing that oozes into your skull and melts your brain like a box of a zillion crayons."

  —Idiot Alien Thought Creature

  
  "His books are from another universe."

  —Cameron Pierce

  
  "Mellick is smarter than the dumbness he tries to coat his writing in; you feel like you're reading a comic or watching MTV - but that underneath there is something deeper and smarter than the cartoonish presentation before your eyes."

  —Euchrid

  
  "Through childlike narration Mr. Mellick can present to his reader some of the most curious and knee-slapingly hysterical blaspheme."

  —Ian David McGowen

  
  "There is depth behind his simplistic prose, and humor all around it. What at first seems unsophisticated quickly becomes a firm identity to the characters, and you realize the intelligence behind the naivety. Yes, it's all on purpose, and you've just been had!"

  —Schtinky

  
  "Mellick has definitely joined the ranks of the bizarre literary geniuses such as Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, and Vonnegut."

  —Charles Glover

  
  "Mellick's imagination is boundless, and his writing truly shows this. His characters, plot, and writing style are original, enjoyable, and inspiring."

  —Lionel Bigsby

  
  

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• Carlton Mellick III

  • OUT NOW: “The Bad Box” September 2, 2020
    My newest book, THE BAD BOX, is now available. THE BAD BOX Little Benny isn’t very good at taking tests. It’s not that he’s a stupid kid or doesn’t pay attention in class. It’s just that he’s absolutely terrified of failure. It doesn’t matter how hard he studies. He gets so nervous that he freezes […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Snuggle Club” March 10, 2020
    My newest book, SNUGGLE CLUB, is now available. SNUGGLE CLUB After the death of his wife, Ray Parker decides to get involved with the local “cuddle party” community in order to once again feel the closeness of another human being. Although he’s sure it will be a strange and awkward experience, he’s determined to give […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Mouse Trap” May 1, 2019
    My newest book, MOUSE TRAP, is now available. MOUSE TRAP It’s the last school trip young Emily will ever get to go on. Not because it’s the end of the school year, but because the world is coming to an end. Teachers, parents, and other students have been slowly dying off over the past several […]
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  • OUT NOW: “The Boy with the Chainsaw Heart” November 6, 2018
    My new book, The Boy with the Chainsaw Heart, is now available. After my last couple of books, Stacking Doll and Neverday, I wanted to do something a little more on the action adventure side. Something set in the afterlife. Something that I could really sink myself into and lose myself for days at a […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Neverday” July 4, 2018
    My new book, NEVERDAY, is now available. This is one that I’ve been talking about for almost a decade now. It’s my version of the time loop trope made popular in the movie “Groundhog Day” but instead of focusing only on a single character this story explores what would happen to society if everyone in […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Stacking Doll” March 12, 2018
    STACKING DOLL Stacking Doll is the story of Benjamin Hammond, a young man who is in love with a Russian nesting doll. But in this world, nesting dolls are not just antique wooden toys. They are a race of people known as Matryoshkans, a subspecies of human who are born with a very peculiar abnormality—they […]
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  • OUT NOW: Parasite Milk October 17, 2017
    My new novella, Parasite Milk, is now available. PARASITE MILK Irving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case […]
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  • OUT NOW: The Big Meat July 11, 2017
    My newest book, The Big Meat, is now available. This is my tribute to the kaiju genre. I hope you check it out. THE BIG MEAT The creature was finally dead. After months of fighting it, trying desperately to stop it as it rampaged across the American countryside, turning city after city into a landscape […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Spider Bunny” April 3, 2017
    My new book, SPIDER BUNNY, is now available. This one is a tribute to the unintentionally terrifying children’s commercials of the ‘70s and ‘80s. I hope you check it out. SPIDER BUNNY Only Petey remembers the Fruit Fun cereal commercials of the 1980s. He remembers how warped and disturbing they were. He remembers the lumpy-shaped […]
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  • OUT NOW: “Exercise Bike” January 17, 2017
    My new book “Exercise Bike” is now available. EXERCISE BIKE There is something wrong with Tori Manetti’s new exercise bike. It is made from flesh and bone. It eats and breathes and poops. It was once a billionaire named Darren Oscarson who underwent years of cosmetic surgery to be transformed into a human exercise bike […]
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