Have a post-modernist Halloween!

For Halloween, a grownup's gross-out tale of Halloween horrors:

Mellick, 38- who lives in "Keep Portland Weird", Oregon, has carved out a unique niche in fiction- "Bizarro," described as a combination of trashy schlock sci-fi/horror and postmodern literary art. His novels explore surreal versions of earth in contemporary society and imagined futures, commonly focusing on social absurdities and satire.

His titles alone are arresting, and may leave some demanding that he be arrested:

Novels

• Satan Burger (2001)
• Electric Jesus Corpse (2002)
• Punk Land (2005) - sequel to Satan Burger 
• Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland (2009)
• Zombies and Shit (2010)
• Tumor Fruit (2012)
• Hungry Bug (2014)

Novellas

• Razor Wire Pubic Hair (2003)
• Teeth and Tongue Landscape (2003)
• The Steel Breakfast Era (2003)
• The Baby Jesus Butt Plug: A Fairytale (2004)
• Fishyfleshed (2004)
• The Menstruating Mall (2005)
• Ocean Of Lard (w/ Kevin L. Donihe 2005)
• Sex and Death in Television Town (2006)
• Sea of the Patchwork Cats (2006)
• The Haunted Vagina (2006)
• War Slut (2006)
• Sausagey Santa (2007)
• Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell (2007)
• Ultra Fuckers (2008)
• Adolf in Wonderland (2008)
• Cybernetrix (2008)
• The Egg Man (2008)
• Apeshit (2008)
• The Faggiest Vampire (2009)
• The Cannibals of Candyland (2009)
• The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightement +2 (2010)
• Crab Town (2011)
• The Morbidly Obese Ninja (2011)
• I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter (2011)
• Armadillo Fists (2011)
• The Handsome Squirm (2012)
• Kill Ball (2012)
• Cuddly Holocaust (2013)
• Village of the Mermaids (2013)
• Quicksand House (2013)
• Clusterfuck (2013)

Collections

• Sunset with a Beard (2000/2010)
• Barbarian Beast Bitches of the Badlands (2011)
• Fantastic Orgy (2011)
• Hammer Wives (2013)

Selected short fiction

• Hamburger Clock - The Dream Zone (magazine) (2001)
• Porno in August - Random Acts of Weirdness, reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (2002)
• God on Television - Falling From the Sky (2007)
• The Immortal - The Flash (2007)
• City Hobgoblins - Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall (2007)
• Candy Coated - Vice Magazine (December, 2008)
• Simple Machines - The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction #2 (2009)
• Lemon Knives n Cockroaches - Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead
• War Pig - Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within
• Stupid Fucking Reason to Sell Your Soul - Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed (2011)
• Red World - Chapbook, edited by Chatham University MFA candidate Matthew Humphrey (2012)

What's a Mellick story like? Here's a review of one from his website:

AS SHE STABBED ME GENTLY IN THE FACE

Oksana Maslovskiy is an award-winning artist, an internationally adored fashion model, and one of the most infamous serial killers this country has ever known. She enjoys murdering pretty young men with a nine-inch blade, cutting them open and admiring their delicate insides. It’s the only way she knows how to be intimate with another human being. But one day she meets a victim who cannot be killed. His name is Gabriel–a mysterious immortal being with a deep desire to save Oksana’s soul. He makes her a deal: if she promises to never kill another person again, he’ll become her eternal murder victim.

What at first seems like the perfect relationship for Oksana quickly devolves into a living nightmare when she discovers that Gabriel enjoys being killed by her just a little too much. He turns out to be obsessive, possessive, and paranoid that she might be murdering other men behind his back. And because he is unkillable, it’s not going to be easy for Oksana to get rid of him.

As She Stabbed Me Gently in the Face is a metaphor for a bad relationship, told in the form of a sociopathic killer’s affair with an even more sociopathic victim. From the mind of Wonderland Book Award winner Carlton Mellick III, author ofHungry Bug and Quicksand House, comes one of the strangest and most gruesome love stories ever put to print.