I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy [Paperback]

Carlton Mellick III (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 6, 2011

She came for his soul, but left with his heart...

Jonathan Vandervoo lives a carefree life in a house made of legos, spending his days building lego sculptures and his nights getting drunk with his only friend--an alcoholic sumo wrestler named Shoji. It's a pleasant life with no responsibility, until the day he meets Lici. She's a soul-sucking demon from hell with red skin, glowing eyes, a forked tongue, and pointy red devil horns... and she claims to be nine months pregnant with Jonathan's baby.

Now Jonathan must do the right thing and marry the succubus or else her demonic family is going to rip his heart out through his ribcage and force him to endure the worst torture hell has to offer for the rest of eternity. But can Jonathan really love a fire-breathing, frog-eating, cold-blooded demoness? Or would eternal damnation be preferable? Either way, the big day is approaching. And once Jonathan's conservative Christian family learns their son is about to marry a spawn of Satan, it's going to be all-out war between demons and humans, with Jonathan and his hell-born bride caught in the middle.

I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter is an adorable, violent, fantastical love story. A romantic comedy for the bizarro fiction reader.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Praise for Carlton Mellick III

"Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene writer in America."
- GOTHIC MAGAZINE

"Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!"
- CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel

"If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century."
- JACK KETCHUM, author of The Woman and The Girl Next Door

"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale."
- CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother

"Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender."
- BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea

"Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are an art in themselves, Mellick is a true artist."
- THE GUARDIAN

"Just as Pop had Andy Warhol and Dada Tristan Tzara, the Bizarro movement has its very own P. T. Barnum-type practitioner. He's the mutton-chopped author of such books as Electric Jesus Corpse and The Menstruating Mall, the illustrator, editor, and instructor of all things Bizarro, and his name is Carlton Mellick III."
- DETAILS MAGAZINE

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press (September 6, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936383829
• ISBN-13: 978-1936383825
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Like a real world Kilgore Trout, cult author CARLTON MELLICK III has been pumping out some of the weirdest, trashiest, most imaginative books that you'll never want to admit you secretly love.

His books are released on a quarterly basis (every January, April, July, and October).

Best known as one of the leading authors of the bizarro fiction movement in literature, he is also one of the most prolific authors of his generation with over 40 books in print since 2001. He won the Wonderland Book Award for his novel "Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland" and has had short stories make it into The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade.

Although many of his earliest works are on the surreal and experimental side, his current style is to take the most ridiculous concepts imaginable and approach them with complete sincerity, as if they are not intended to be ridiculous at all. Always full of tongue-in-cheek humor, social satire, and told in a simplistic straightforward prose style similar to that of children's literature or early pulp fiction, Carlton Mellick III's work is one of a kind, to say the least.

He lives in Portland, OR, the bizarro mecca.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A sweet love story, actually October 24, 2011

By Dustin Reade

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Even though he says he doesn't want to be remembered for this book in his introduction, I think this may be Carlton Mellick's finest hour.
So far.
Of course.
I mean: "his finest hour so far."

This book is exactly like a romantic comedy. Because it is one. And secretly, everybody likes romantic comedies. Those who speak out against them love them the most. (see how I did that? Now, anyone who comments on this review and says "I don't like romantic comedies!" will look like a fool who REALLY likes romantic comedies.)

It is the typical boy-meets-girl-but-girl-is-a-succubus-from-hell-and-she-is-carrying-the-boy's-child-and-wants-to-marry-him-but-first-she-takes-him-to-hell-to-meet-her-family-who-are-actually-nicer-than-the-boy's-family-story that we have all read and watched so many times before.

Mellick spares us none of the traditional romantic comedy trappings: The Sumo Wrestling Best Friend. The Christian Business Man and Kung-Fu Expert Brother-in-Law. The Man Who Lives In A Lego House.
Sure. We've seen it a hundred times.
But, somehow, Mellick manages to keep it all fresh. The plot never lags or suffers and the dialogue is witty and realistic.

Also, Mellick re-thinks the afterlife in a pretty interesting way, which I feel could be its own book. Even though it is only mentioned in, like, one or two chapters in this one. But still...

I mean...

Seriously you need to read this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever! December 24, 2011

By Vince Kramer

Format:Paperback

Just about everything in this book is ingenious, which means it's completely full of genius inside. Mellick has really outdone himself this time. Everything from a master lego builder who lives in a house full of legos he built himself to the cute-as-hell (and from hell) succubus demon he falls in love with after he gets her preggars. This is the first Bizarro romantic comedy, and like any good chick flick, I found myself tearing up by the end of it. But that doesn't mean it's without horrific blood and violence, complete with brutal demons, gigantic rampaging lego dinosaurs, and a group of killer kung-fu devout christians of christ. Oh, and a sumo wrestler. A drunken one. Gotta love that. This is one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read, it's laugh-out-loud hilarious, and it's better than any movie playing in the theaters right now. (And with ticket prices these days buying a book is actually cheaper than going to the movies.) It's definitely going to find a spot in my top ten favorite Carlton Mellick books of all time. And this is... (wait, I have to recount) Mellick's 32ND book. Woly crap! And I've read 29 of those and there has never been one that disappoints. If you've never read any of the author's books before, I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter would be a great starting point and you could just work your way back from there. You can't go wrong.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars this is total CMIII, but unlike any other CMIII November 8, 2011

By J. L. Devendorf

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I'd argue the structure and theme are very different from CMIII's other works, but all throughout are telltale signs of my favorite author. Ideas and descriptions that make it easy to picture a world you've never thought of before (an entire house built of legos), and every character with a full personality [the sumo friend/the pastor brother-in-law (by the way, I know this guy!!! what a kook)]. ...and, NOT ME!!!, but "a guy I know" even shed a tear while reading this. Don't know how this would come across to a first time reader of Mellick, but if you are an open-minded reader, I don't see how you could be disappointed with this purchase.