Basically, what sets it apart is its characters. It was a parody of the Friday the 13 th/cabin in the woods/slasher B-movies. This book is basically just dumb fun, I’ll admit. It is the one that attracted the horror audience to my work for the first time. But Satan Burger launched my career, Haunted Vagina is the best-selling, and Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland won the Wonderland Book Award.įor horror readers, though, I’d say Apeshit is the most notable. I like Armadillo Fists best at the moment. There’s always at least a touch of horror and humour in everything I write. If the bizarro genre didn’t exist my work would probably be labelled ‘horror comedy’. But as a horror fan, I can’t help but sneak horror elements into everything I write. I write bizarro fiction, which is more about the weird and absurd elements than the horrific ones. But once I started writing I preferred work on the stranger more humorous side. And had a large collection of books by horror authors (my favourites: McCammon, Barker, Koja, Skipp & Spectre, Lansdale, King). I made backyard horror movies with my friends. I’ve been obsessed with horror since seeing Evil Dead in the fifth grade. I would call myself more of a horror junkie than a horror writer. What first attracted you to horror writing? He is one of the leading practitioners of the bizarro fiction genre and can speak 23 fake languages. Carlton Mellick III is the author of Satan Burger, Cannibals of Candyland, Zombies and Shit, Armadillo Fists, The Haunted Vagina and many others.

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