ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family, by Carlton Mellick III
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“Carlton Mellick III goes past silly, through weird, detours around dumb, blasts through bizarre, and gets to a place where the normal physics of narrative no longer apply. You will never be the same.”—Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and HomelandIn a topsy-turvy world where clowns are killers and crooks, Little Bigtop is a three-ring circus of crime, and no syndicate is more dangerous than the Bozo family. From the wildly original mind of Carlton Mellick III comes the short-story collection ClownFellas—an epic mob saga where life is cheap and the gags will slay you.For years, the hard-boiled capos of the Bozo family have run all of the funny business in Little Bigtop, from the clown brothels to the illegal comedy trade. But hard times have befallen the Bozos now that Le Mystère, the French clown Mafia, has started moving in and trying to take over the city. If that weren’t enough, they’ve got to deal with the cops, the Feds, the snitches, the carnies, the mysterious hit man Mr. Pogo, and the mutant clowns over in the Sideshow district. With the odds stacked against them, the Bozos must fight to survive . . . or die laughing.Praise for ClownFellas“Mario Puzo meets Barnum & Bailey . . . You just can’t look away as the ridiculousness escalates.”—Publishers Weekly“The most original novelist working today? The most outrageous? The most unpredictable? These aren’t easy superlatives to make; however, Carlton Mellick may well be all of those things, behind a canon of books that all irreverently depart from the form and concepts of traditional novels, and adventure the reader into a howling, dark fantasyland of the most bizarre, over-the-top, and mind-warping inventiveness. In my opinion, ClownFellas is his best work to date.”—Edward Lee, author of City Infernal and Header“I rarely enjoy clowns—which is ironic since I’ve been one for over four decades—but ClownFellas is great on so many levels, irony being one of them. What can I say besides I love it! Great read, and funny as hell . . . I have been accused of being unfunny before, and after the trial I had to enter the Witless Protection Program. This is funny!”—Barry Lubin, aka Grandma, longtime Big Apple Circus clown“If Martin Scorsese and Ronald McDonald had a baby, this would be it. . . . Each story is clever, multi-layered, and filled with witty dialogue. . . . A must-read.”—This Is Horror “Mellick’s writing is wonderfully descriptive and wildly imaginative. . . . I was utterly delighted, amused, and engrossed. . . . ClownFellas is a gem!”—The Qwillery “A rollercoaster ride through a strange world that borders on our own reality . . . a story that is just as difficult to define as it is to put down.”—Examiner.com “Mellick has created another amazing read. . . . Highly recommended.”—Kitty Horror
ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family, by Carlton Mellick III - Amazon Sales Rank: #412598 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-14
- Released on: 2015-07-14
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“Carlton Mellick III goes past silly, through weird, detours around dumb, blasts through bizarre, and gets to a place where the normal physics of narrative no longer apply. You will never be the same.”—Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Homeland“Mario Puzo meets Barnum & Bailey . . . You just can’t look away as the ridiculousness escalates.”—Publishers Weekly“The most original novelist working today? The most outrageous? The most unpredictable? These aren’t easy superlatives to make; however, Carlton Mellick may well be all of those things, behind a canon of books that all irreverently depart from the form and concepts of traditional novels, and adventure the reader into a howling, dark fantasyland of the most bizarre, over-the-top, and mind-warping inventiveness. In my opinion, ClownFellas is his best work to date.”—Edward Lee, author of City Infernal and Header“I rarely enjoy clowns—which is ironic since I’ve been one for over four decades—but ClownFellas is great on so many levels, irony being one of them. What can I say besides I love it! Great read, and funny as hell . . . I have been accused of being unfunny before, and after the trial I had to enter the Witless Protection Program. This is funny!”—Barry Lubin, aka Grandma, longtime Big Apple Circus clown“If Martin Scorsese and Ronald McDonald had a baby, this would be it. . . . Each story is clever, multi-layered, and filled with witty dialogue. . . . A must-read.”—This Is Horror “Mellick’s writing is wonderfully descriptive and wildly imaginative. . . . I was utterly delighted, amused, and engrossed. . . . ClownFellas is a gem!”—The Qwillery “A rollercoaster ride through a strange world that borders on our own reality . . . a story that is just as difficult to define as it is to put down.”—Examiner.com “Mellick has created another amazing read. . . . Highly recommended.”—Kitty Horror
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. In My Top 5 of Mellick's Books By Christoph Paul “The Sopranos” meets “Killer Clowns From Outer Space”. Yup, that is the best way to describe this book. I have seen and read many of Mellick's books. I always think two similar things when a new Mellick book comes out: that is really stupid and ridiculous—I have to read this. That is brilliant and ridiculous—I have to read this. With ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family, I felt a little of both. Clown Fellas is composed of six novellas, all taking place within the same world.There are very few writers who can take a ridiculous idea (brilliant &/or stupid) and not only pull it off but make a memorable story with characters that entertain you and stay with you.Carlton Mellick is that writer, and he is the best at this trick.I've been a fan of Mellick's since I read his novella “The Haunted Vagina”. That book was my gateway drug to the genre of Bizarro Fiction. Mellick has a vast catalogue of at least 45 books (don't quote me, there are too many to count).“ClownFellas” is in my top 5 of Carlton Mellick books, which says a lot, considering how many I have read and enjoyed. I love the world and characters that Mellick brings to life in Clown Fellas. He used a similar structure of interconnected stories like he did in his book about magic and addiction called "Hungry Bug." That book is also in my top 5.I like this one a little more than “Hungry Bug” though, because I love mafia-anything more than magic. I'm not a fantasy guy at all, but Carlton’s strange worlds intrigue me. Mellick is Bizarro: a blend of different genres that he turns on their heads and into really fun and weird entertainment.In “ClownFellas”, he shows us a world where comedy is illegal and humans can become clowns (another species) and clown mafias rule Little Big Top. I will not spoil any of the cool clown weapons for you, but I can say they are pretty awesome.These 6 complimentary novellas show Carlton Mellick's greatest strength, which is: great storytelling through ridiculous weird-ass premises. All 6 stories show a mafia clown world, that you won’t want to leave. “ClownFellas” is a must read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Christine's horror fiction reviews By Christine I’m not particularly a fan of clowns. I’m not particularly phobic about them, either, but it sure is the creepier ones that have a way of lingering in the memory, and even the benign ones are … let’s face it … kind of creepy. They’re natural fodder for horror and bizarro, being halfway there already.Now, that said, you might expect the clown treatment in the hands of the likes of Carlton Mellick III to be totally over-the-big-top wild and crazy circus time. Instead, in Clown Fellas, what you get is more of a gritty mosaic, colorful in its intricate way as it picks out a complex panorama of dark, sordid, violent events.It’s an epic drama, the Godfather and Sopranos of a world in which, for whatever reason, they live among us. An inhuman race of clowns, with their own ways and customs, subject to a different set of physical laws. Other comparisons that sprang to mind included the Toons of Toontown, and Alien Nation.With clowns. But, even within their own close-knit community of Little Bigtop, there are divisions and conflicts between sub-groups, among families and Families. There’s crime, drugs, prostitution, murder, greed, envy, rivalries, revenge.If not for the fact that these were clowns, you could almost forget these were clowns. Only, they are clowns, with squirting flowers, balloons, mimes, jugglers, pie throwing, the works.Weirdest of all, it wasn’t as weird as I thought it would be. It was more restrained, less completely out there, than much of this author’s body of work. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. But I caught myself a few times thinking, “wait, right, this is a Carlton!” because sometimes it just didn’t have as much … Carlton-ness … as I’m used to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Laughing bullets, deadly jugglers, exploding pies - Awesome stories!!! By Mike Kazmierczak I've seen and been interested in several books by Carlton Mellick III. I even have two of his books on my To Get list: APESH*T and ZOMBIES AND SH*T. However, I hadn't previously read any of his books. So when I was given the chance to review an Advanced Reading Copy of one of his books, I jumped at it. And I am very glad that I did.CLOWNFELLAS is an excellent book! And even better, it was more like six books in one. The book is broken down into six different, standalone but also connected sections; each section focuses on a specific person or clown. Each person is connected to the Bozo family: a criminal family that is controlling part of New York City. However, rather than an Italian or Russian mafia where the common factor is nationality, in this case the family is made up of clowns. These clowns have more in common with the clown from IT than they do with the Ringling Bros. Circus. When injected into a person, a new drug called Happy Juice would transform the person into a full-fledged clown. Changing hair color, skin color and other aspects. But 10% of the time the person's mind and body would become malformed and distorted, making the person a Sideshow Freak.That is the setting for the six stories. Other than that, the stories are pretty normal stories involving a mafia family. After being blackmailed an outsider gets pulled into the family for his own protection. A Capo who creates more problems than he solves gets away with murder because he's the boss's son. Associates are framed. An assassin goes on a rampage. But the wonderful thing with all the stories is that we really care about what happens to each person. The bizarre aspect of clowns being a mafia family is just the setting. It is the characters in the story that makes the book great. We care about Pinky Smiles being framed and want him to discover who and why. We want Bingo Ballbreaker to get Melinda back. And even though Uncle Jojo gets what he deserves, we still feel sorry for him. It's kind of similar to a good science fiction story in that the rules of the story get defined as the book progresses but in reality it is the characters and their personal growth that drives our interest. I am very much looking forward to reading my next Carlton Mellick III book.
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