Full Metal Octopus
Full Metal Octopus by Carlton Mellick, III is an erotic urban fantasy crime novel published by Eraserhead Press on July 20, 2021. This edition spans 218 pages and is presented in English. The story unfolds in Grub Town, a city rife with corruption, where fantastical elements intertwine with gritty realities, featuring characters such as gutter punk mermaids and fairy prostitutes.
Readers will encounter Eliot, the city’s most beautiful fairy, who struggles with the attention his emerald green wings attract, leading him to seek refuge in the company of friends and the enigmatic tattoo artist Oona. As their relationship deepens, Eliot’s life takes a dramatic turn when he accidentally kills the heir to a powerful crime family, forcing him and Oona to flee. The narrative explores themes of love, violence, and survival against the backdrop of a bizarre urban landscape, blending elements of fantasy, crime, and eroticism.
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For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and “one of the most original novelists working today” by extreme horror legend Edward Lee, Mellick returns with an erotic urban fantasy crime novel about love and violence, sex and sexuality, oppression and overcoming impossible odds.
Welcome to Grub Town, the most corrupt city in America. A place where gutter punk mermaids swim in sewage-filled canals, fairy prostitutes hang in birdcages on every street corner, and yakuza elves run everything behind the scenes.
Eliot is the most beautiful fairy in all of the city with his dazzling emerald green butterfly wings that make everyone who sees them fall instantly in lust with him. But it’s more of a curse than a blessing. Forced to hide his wings in public in order to avoid the constant sexual harassment, Eliot only finds solace when visiting his friends at the Snake Pit lamia strip club or getting tattooed by the dark and mysterious half-octopus woman named Oona.
Oona is the best tattooist in the city, but she is a frightening woman three times Eliot’s size with nine-foot tentacles that could choke a man to death in seconds. But despite this fact, Eliot is desperately in love with her. He’s so infatuated with the octomaid that he gets new tattoos from her each and every week just to be closer to her, addicted to having her artwork permanently embedded into his skin. But when Eliot accidentally murders the only heir to the elf yakuza crime family in Oona’s tattoo shop, they are forced to go on the run together, hoping to avoid the wrath of the most dangerous man in town. With everyone in the city out to get them, they can only rely on each other if they have any hope for survival.
Like if Quentin Tarantino played with Monster High dolls, Full Metal Octopus is a return to Mellick’s pulpy gritty bizarro style previously seen in The Cannibals of Candyland, Armadillo Fists, and Clownfellas.
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