CARLTON MELLICK III is one of the leading authors in the bizarro fiction genre—a booming underground movement that strives to bring weird, crazy, entertaining literature to the masses. He has had more than forty-five books in print since 2001, including Quicksand House, Hungry Bug, and I Knocked Up Satan’s Daughter, and has been translated into Italian, German, Russian, Polish, and Japanese. He lives in Portland, Oregon, the clown capital of the world.