Carlton Mellick III is a cult underground author of several squishy novels with antennas and pubic hairs growing out of them. He writes about three or four of these books a year, most have something to do with surreal worlds, disturbed people, weird fetishes, nightmarish absurdities, zombies, Jesus, food, and dildos that come alive at night. His goal is to write the kind of books he wants to read, which are different from anything else that's getting published these days, and he is shooting to become a leading name in a new "bizarre" fiction genre. He looks kind of like an asshole, but that's okay. Nobody has held that against him so far. CM3 has sold work to the following publications: THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 16, RANDOM ACTS OF WEIRDNESS, STRANGEWOOD TALES, BLUE FOOD, WINEDARK SEA, XERO, DRIVER'S SIDE AIRBAG, SNIFFY LININGS, THE DREAM ZONE, THE BEST OF THE DREAM ZONE, STEEL CAVES, ALIEN Q, MINDMARES, BURNING SKY, FANTASQUE, GHOUL, LETHOLOGICA, ALTERNATE REALITIES, EUTO, IN POSSE REVIEW, HORRORFIND, THE HARROW, SUSPECT THOUGHTS, POTATO MONKEY, THE ORPHIC CHRONICLE, THE EARWIG FLESH FACTORY, THE DREAM PEOPLE, EATERS OF THE DEAD, FABLES, STORY BYTES, THE VESTAL REVIEW, QUICKER, ROSEWORT, WRITER'S HOOD, THE BLOODY MUSE, JUPITER'S FREEDOM, 69 FLAVORS OF PARANOIA, PARCHMENT SYMBOLS, COTWORLD, SIDEWALK'S END, EYESHOT, DARKNESS WITHIN, DEMENTIA, IMELOD, XENITH, DRANG, DRUNK DUCK, STATE OF UNBEING, FEAR OF THE DARK, NUKETOWN, TAJ MAHAL REVIEW, BAY REVIEW, AND SEATTLE FICTION. Mostly accurate facts about Carlton Mellick III LOCATION Portland, OR BIRTHDAY July 2nd 1977 BIRTHPLACE Phoenix, AZ HEIGHT 6'2 HAIR just sideburns TATTOOS several arm tattoos. Gets a new one for every book written. All black. All self-designed HOBBIES sleeping, dreaming, collecting zombie movies, painting, looking up porn, making action figures of self, staring into space CARS none, don't know how to drive FAVORITE COLOR green FAVORITE COUNTRY Japan FAVORITE CARTOON Thundarr FAVORITE PEOPLE bald tattooed girls FAVORITE FILMS Tetsuo: The Iron Man (and all Tsukamoto movies), Eraserhead (and other Lynch movies), The Golden Boat, Blood of a Poet, Battle Royale, Cube, City of the Lost Children, The Dark Backward, Careful, Possession, Julian Donkey Boy, Trekkies, Fantastic Planet, Bad Taste, all movies by Svankmajer, Jodorowsky, Herzog, Bunuel, John Waters, and Peter Greenway, all troma movies, all zombie movies, all Bruce Campbell movies, all cult movies, all Japanese movies, and pretty much anything unless it was made in hollywood. FAVORITE AUTHORS Russell Edson, Kathe Koja, Dr. Seuss, Kathy Acker, Jonathan Lethem, Kenji Siratori, Vonnegut, Breton, Lautreamont, Kafka, Burroughs, Burgess, Francesca Lia Block, Stewart Home, Jeff VanderMeer, Chuck Palahniuk, J. G. Ballard, China Mieville, Mark Z. Danielewski, Irvine Welsh, all Eraserhead Press authors, all Creation Books authors, and all underground literary anarchists. FAVOR BANDS Melt Banana, Boredoms, Hardcore Dude, Devo, Sockeye, Cauliflower Ass and Bob, the Imperial Butt Wizards, the Frogs, Guitar Wolf, the Skatalites, the Slackers, the Paragons, Prince Buster, Ween, the Kids of Widney High, that crappy Corey Feldman band, Merzbow, Upside-down Cross, Anal Cunt, Mortiis. Pretty much all japanese punk, retard metal, black metal, motown, oi!, rocksteady, or anything stupid. FAVORITE ACTORS Bruce Campbell, Steve Buscemi, Crispin Glover, Klaus Kinski, Udo Kier, Gary Oldman, John Malkovich, Christopher Walken, Brad Dourif, Malcolm McDowell, Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr, Jason Statham, Chris Eliot, Gary Coleman. FAVORITE ACRTRESSES Debbie Rochon, Fairuza Balk, Eve Salvail, Asia Argento, Alicia Witt, Grace Jones, Divine, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Gin Clarke, Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich. FAVORITE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE Trichomoniasis FAVORITE ANIMALS snails and crabs FAVORITE FOOD anything sandwichy or pickled FAVORITE FASCIST DICTATOR ??? FAVORITE SITCOM None ... no, wait, "Get A Life" FAVORITE PRESIDENT Ulysses S. Grant FAVORITE CAREER pirate FAVORITE WAY TO DIE spontaneous head explosion or anything having to do with sporks FAVORITE HUMAN BEING ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET Mr. T