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"Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest,
most obscene writer in America." -- GOTHIC MAGAZINE "Carlton is
an acquired taste, but he hooks you like a drug." --HUNTER SHEA,
author of Forest of Shadows "The most original novelist working
today? The most outrageous? The most unpredictable? These aren't
easy superlatives to make; however, Carlton Mellick may well be
all of those things, behind a canon of books that all
irreverently depart from the form and concepts of traditional
novels, and adventure the reader into a howling, dark fantasyland
of the most bizarre, over-the-top, and mind-warping
inventiveness." --EDWARD LEE, author of Header "Carlton Mellick
III is a genius with an insanely beautiful imagination." --JOE
AUGUSTYN, writer of Night of the Demons "Carlton Mellick III has
the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!" --CHRISTOPHER
MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel "If you haven't read Mellick
you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century."
--JACK KETCHUM, author of The Woman and The Girl Next Door
"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented
practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional
tale." --CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother "Mellick's
career is impressive because, despite the fact that he puts out a
few books a year, he has managed to bring something new to the
table everytime... Every Mellick novel is packed with more wildly
original concepts than you could find in the current top ten New
York Times bestsellers put together." --VERBICIDE "Mellick's
guerrilla incursions combine total geekboy fandom and love with
genuine, unbridled outsider madness. As such, it borders on
genius, in the way only true outsider art can." --FANGORIA
"Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction
is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender."
--BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea "I'm a huuuuge
Bizarro fan. This new strain of cheerfully transgressive weird
fiction is to me the most vibrant, exciting, genre-mangling scene
in all of strange literature today. And no one holds dominion
over this blossoming underground phenomenon like the godher of
Bizarro, Carlton Mellick III. With the most impressive sideburns
in imaginative litsince Isaac Asimov, and a brain that squirts
out more shamelessly playful originality in any given chapter
than most artists will accomplish in their entire lives, he's the
boy. The Elvis. Aswell he should be." --JOHN SKIPP,
co-author of The Bridge "It's not unusual to blow through a
Mellick book in one sitting. They're fast-paced with an endless
number of surprises, making it tough not to keep turning pages.
When the end comes, I'm left with that done-too-soon feeling that
I always love experiencing." --RAZORCAKE "A wormhole of
disturbing surrealism and absurd satire." --VICE MAGAZINE
"Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that
lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are
an art in themselves,Mellick is a true artist." --THE GUARDIAN
"His fiction blends bizarre scenarios mixed with horror, action,
and even more bizarre actions to create fiction that toes the
line between the absurd and the dark places of the mind...
Shocking yet entertaining" --THE EXAMINER "I imagine Mellick as a
Willy Wonka-type character, someone with personal access to
another world, a world of his own creation, but due to its
mind-bending energy, he's lost control of it, and it continues to
thrive even without him there to pull the strings. And I like the
idea of that." --BOOKIE MONSTER
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From the Back Cover
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From the Back Cover
Praise for Carlton Mellick III
"Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most
obscene writer in America." -- GOTHIC MAGAZINE
"Carlton is an acquired taste, but he hooks you like a drug."
--HUNTER SHEA, author of Forest of Shadows
"The most original novelist working today? The most outrageous?
The mostunpredictable? These aren't easy superlatives to make;
however, CarltonMellick may well be all of those things, behind a
canon of books thatall irreverently depart from the form and
concepts of traditionalnovels, and adventure the reader into a
howling, dark fantasyland of the most bizarre, over-the-top, and
mind-warping inventiveness." --EDWARD LEE, author of Header
"Carlton Mellick III is a genius with an insanely beautiful
imagination." --JOE AUGUSTYN, writer of Night of the Demons
"Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the
kinkiest fans!" --CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest
Angel
"If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough
for the twenty first century." --JACK KETCHUM, author of The
Woman and The Girl Next Door
"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most
talentedpractitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science
fictional tale." --CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother
"Mellick's career is impressive because, despite the fact that
he puts out a fewbooks a year, he has managed to bring something
new to the table everytime... Every Mellick novel is packed with
more wildly original concepts than you could find in the current
top ten New York Times bestsellers put together." --VERBICIDE
"Mellick's guerrilla incursions combine total geekboy fandom and
love withgenuine, unbridled outsider madness. As such, it borders
on genius, inthe way only true outsider art can." --FANGORIA
"Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's
fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a
blender." --BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea
"I'm a huuuuge Bizarro fan. This new strain of cheerfully
transgressiveweird fiction is to me the most vibrant, exciting,
genre-mangling scenein all of strange literature today. And no
one holds dominion over thisblossoming underground phenomenon
like the godher of Bizarro, Carlton Mellick III. With the most
impressive sideburns in imaginative litsince Isaac Asimov, and a
brain that squirts out more shamelesslyplayful originality in any
given chapter than most artists willaccomplish in their entire
lives, he's the boy. The Elvis. Aswell he should be."
--JOHN SKIPP, co-author of The Bridge
"It's not unusual to blow through a Mellick book in one sitting.
They'refast-paced with an endless number of surprises, making it
tough not tokeep turning pages. When the end comes, I'm left with
that done-too-soon feeling that I always love experiencing."
--RAZORCAKE
"A wormhole of disturbing surrealism and absurd satire." --VICE
MAGAZINE
"Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that
lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are
an art in themselves,Mellick is a true artist." --THE GUARDIAN
"Hisfiction blends bizarre scenarios mixed with horror, action,
and evenmore bizarre actions to create fiction that toes the line
between theabsurd and the dark places of the mind... Shocking yet
entertaining" --THE EXAMINER
"I imagine Mellick as a Willy Wonka-type character, someone
withpersonal access to another world, a world of his own
creation, but dueto its mind-bending energy, he's lost control of
it, and it continues to thrive even without him there to pull the
strings. And I like the idea of that." --BOOKIE MONSTER
"The imp of the perverse." --3AM MAGAZINE
"Just as Pop had Andy Warhol and Dada Tristan Tzara, the Bizarro
movement has its very own P. T. Barnum-type practitioner. He's
the mutton-choppedauthor of such books as Electric Jesus Corpse
and The Menstruating Mall, the illustrator, editor, and
instructor of all things Bizarro, and his name is Carlton Mellick
III." --DETAILS MAGAZINE
"Discussing Bizarro literature without mentioning Mellick is
like discussingweird-ass muttonchopped authors without mentioning
Mellick." --CRACKED.COM
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