The Big Meat

From the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick III, award-winning author of Quicksand House and Cuddly Holocaust, comes a "kaiju" tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack.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 of rubble, we finally managed to beat the damned thing. We actually saved the human species. We survived.But the corpse still lingers.In the center of the city once known as Portland, Oregon, there lies a mountain of flesh. Hundreds of thousands of tons of rotting flesh. It has filled the city with disease and dead-lizard stench, contaminated the water supply with its greasy putrid fluids, clogged the air with toxic gasses so thick that you can't leave your house without the aid of a gas mask. And no one really knows quite what to do about it. A thousand-man demolition crew has been trying to clear it out one piece at a time, but after three months of work they've barely made a dent. And then there's the junkies who have started burrowing into the monster's guts, searching for a drug produced by its fire glands, setting back the excavation even longer.It seems like the corpse will never go away. And with the quarantine still in place, we're not even allowed to leave. We're stuck in this disgusting rotten hell forever.The Big Meat is a gut-wrenching, nerve-squirming survival story of loss, addiction, and claustrophobia.

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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? Themostunpredictable? These aren't easy superlatives to make; however,CarltonMellick may well be all of those things, behind a canon of booksthatall irreverently depart from the form and concepts oftraditionalnovels, and adventure the reader into a howling, darkfantasyland of the most bizarre, over-the-top, and mind-warpinginventiveness." --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 mosttalentedpractitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictionaltale." --CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother "Mellick's career is impressive because, despite the fact that he puts out afewbooks a year, he has managed to bring something new to the tableeverytime... Every Mellick novel is packed with more wildly originalconcepts 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 wayonly 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 overthisblossoming underground phenomenon like the godfather of Bizarro,Carlton Mellick III. With the most impressive sideburns in imaginativelitsince Isaac Asimov, and a brain that squirts out moreshamelesslyplayful originality in any given chapter than most artistswillaccomplish in their entire lives, he's the poster 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 toughnot tokeep turning pages. When the end comes, I'm left with thatdone-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 inthemselves,Mellick is a true artist." --THE GUARDIAN "Hisfiction blends bizarre scenarios mixed with horror, action, andevenmore bizarre actions to create fiction that toes the line betweentheabsurd 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 anotherworld, 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 himthere 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 themutton-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 likediscussingweird-ass muttonchopped authors without mentioning Mellick."--CRACKED.COM

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