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The Cannibals of Candyland

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Carlton Mellick III says that the Candyland in his book, THE CANNIBALS OF CANDYLAND, isn't really the Candyland of the board game. He says there's "...no Molasses Swamp or Gumdrop Pass, nor any character from Candyland." He readily admits, however, that the game is indeed the inspiration for the story. He says so right at the beginning of the book. This scares the sweets out of the tiny child inside you the whole time that you read it.

Don't worry--the adult in you will have bouts of sweaty fright, too. The images of candy people biting into people-parts will flash across my mind's eye every time I see hard candy from now on, I'm sure.

This is a pure delight of a horror story. Boogeyman freakout to the extreme. The story follows a man named Franklin on his quest to prove that the candy people are real and responsible for killing his siblings when they were all children. And that the monsters continue to abduct and kill kids. It's what drives him in life.

Franklin ends up in the very secret Candyland. He even finds the horrible, sexy, insane, dominatrix peppermint strawberry woman that killed his brother and sisters. And she finds him. Franklin learns what it means to be a candy person.

This is one excellent book. Scary, riveting, interesting, funny, weird, and tasty. There are marshmallow animals, sinister little gumdrop critters, a ridiculously manly candy man named Licorice, and other horrible cannibalistic monsters. It's like a big bite of bloody cotton candy, or like licking a strawberry lollipop to get to the sexy center.

I've been reading quite a bit of Carlton Mellick's books lately. This is definitely one of my favorites. It's like a really twisted Hansel and Gretel meets Cannibal Holocaust with spicy-sweet sex the way only Mr. Mellick can imagine it. In Candyland.

Franklin Pierce has been obssesed with the candy people, ever since he witnessed one kill his brother and sisters. One night, he follows a candy person into candyland, and that is when things get really weird.
Don't be afraid try "bizarro" stories. Carlton Mellick III has a crisp, clean writing style; it's just his ideas that are weird, in the best way. The Cannibals Of Candyland is a strange ride through a world of candy coated flesh eaters. Franklin Pierce's trials and tribulations, as he tries to avenge his murdered siblings..., well, if you like something different, and definitely fun, read The Cannibals Of Candyland. You will never look at candy the same way, again.

When Franklin was a kid, he witnessed the brutal murder of his siblings at the hands (and teeth) of a woman who looked like she was made of candy. He has spent much of his time since trying to find this woman, and has even spotted what he calls "candy people" in various parks and wooded areas (and naturally his friends mock him).

But now Franklin has discovered the subterranean lair where they dwell, and is bent on bringing a candy person back as proof to the world of their existence.

Before long, the candy woman ("Jujy") from his childhood makes Franklin her love slave, and to complicate matters, they begin to fall for each other. A monkey wrench is thrown into the cotton candy when Jujy becomes pregnant with the first human/candy person hybrid. When Franklin tries to escape, he reluctantly saves a bully from his neighborhood

TCOC is another fine bizarro outing from Mellick III, with plenty of twisted imagery, sex scenes, and outlandish violence. While I think it ends kind-of abruptly (and I wanted to see or learn more about the hybrid baby), CANNIBALS is a satisying read for fans of the demented.

this is the first book I read from this mellick dude, who was recommended to me by a friend. i was surprised at how well-written it was. simple prose with the sledge-hammer delicacy that reminded me of the late richard brautigan...sort of 'in-your-face-but-not-really'. seriously, his style is casual and laid back, but it gets harsh when it needs to be. he can get vivid when describing a cannibal eating a person alive, but he knows when to put down the dagger and pick up the quill. gruesome or intense when describing cannibalism or other 'enticing' human pursuits that require more than one participant, but he knows how to tell a story and tell it in a way that keeps you turning pages. speaking as someone who rarely eats human flesh, i found it a book that was real easy to 'wolf down'. this is an author i want to read more from. he has a good imagination and a talent for spinning a fine, if not sick and twisted yarn...i can recommend this book...it's a nourishing tale...for the cannibal in all of us.

Franklin Pierce's siblings were killed by the candy people and since that day he has hunted them hoping to exact his revenge.
When he finally gets the chance he is taken hostage by Jujy, a female candy person who wants to make him her mate.
Without giving any more away this is a great read. CMIII, as usual packs so much into a book that is around 170 pages.
You find yourself feeling for the characters regardless of the fact that some of them are just plain nasty.
Whether you have read other books by CMIII or are new to the Bizarro genre, give this one a read!

Mellick is one wild cat. After first reading his "Wow, just Wow!" novella "The Baby Jesus Butt Plug" in one of the "Bizarro Starter Kit" volumes, I was anxious to read more. This one seemed to be something I would enjoy, and enjoy I did. "Cannibals" concerns the wild mis-adventures of a man, trying to follow his quest to expose a race of subterranean child-eating candy people to a zany uncaring world. It's crazy, bizarro and gory...and not without liberal doses or oddball humor. I hope and plan to read alot more Mellick!

CM3 is known for wild, fun, and bizarre novels and Cannibals is just that. This book has everything you would expect from a CM3 novel. Characters that are developed quickly, yet somehow manage to make you feel for them. Violent, sexy, and poignant, makes this novel a wonderful read for CM3 fans and fans of very good books.

If you like good, gory fun that is strange, this book delivers. The evolving relationship between Franklin and Juji--the character depicted on the cover--is the most interesting. Juji is a vile, but well-rounded, three-dimensional character. I also like how the build-up to the climax and the climax and resolution are fast paced, but don't feel rushed. Some authors stretch these parts out, thinking it adds suspense or are trying to make the book longer. Mellick just tells it. His stories don't drag, which is another reason I like them so much.

This is my first journey into the Bizarro world and it won't be my last. The awesome artwork on the cover of this book is what drew me to it.
This story is about Franklin. A quite "odd" man who life was changed when he saw his siblings eaten by the candy people. Little did we know that during the day the candy people come out to lure children with their sweet smell and then they eat them. Franklin has spent his life looking for these candy people so he can once and for all prove that they exist and destroy them.
This was a pretty intense book for me to read. I felt almost sick and dirty when I read it but still wanted more when I was done. It is definitely not for the faint hearted. You have to understand that Bizarro was meant to be sick and twisted. If you can open your mind to that I think you could really enjoy this book.

Almost all you need to know about Cannibals of Candyland is in its title. Carlton Mellick III took a weird and interesting title and absolutely ran with it here. It seems like a simple concept at first, but Mellick pushes it into brave new territory. It's fun because it lets us see what a Candyland world and its people would be like. Then there's the "Cannibal" part of the concept, and Mellick doesn't hold back on that, either.

Franklin Pierce (named after one of our worst presidents), is another Mellick-style protagonist. No one respects him (least of all his wife and mother-in-law). He's been traumatized by the candy people, which no one else believes exist. He's cybernetically upgraded his brain so he can be super-smart. And he's got a kitten. Franklin's on a mission to exterminate the candy people because when he was a child, he saw one kill and eat his three siblings.

That's part of what makes Cannibals of Candyland so cool. Mellick shows us the colorful candy world and its people, but he also shows the gut-wrenching horror of what those candy people do. They murder small children, graphically, and they are unrepentant. The roles of human and food are reversed here. For the candy people its normal to eat humans. That's how they've evolved. Franklin learns about all this as he's held prisoner by Jujube, the very candy woman who killed his siblings all those years ago.

Franklin's quest for revenge takes a twisted path. He desperately wants to kill all the candy people, but first he has to escape Jujube. His relationship with Jujube is utterly twisted and leads to many barriers being broken for both of them. They are simultaneously enemies and lovers. Their relationship is forbidden, and they are destined to destroy one another with it. The differences between the two (like their definition of what food is supposed to be) lead to some really extreme scenes. Like I said, Carlton Mellick isn't holding back here. He's written an extreme erotic cannibal horror story that happens to be about Candyland. The horror is appropriately repulsive, and the descriptions of the candy textures, tastes, and smells really pull you into this strange sugary world, which only makes it all the more terrifying.