The Haunted Vagina
by Carlton Mellick III
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Author: Carlton Mellick IIIEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-18
ISBN: 097624988X
Number of pages: 100
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
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Book Review: A scary, surreal, romance of ghosts and genitals.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Haunted Vagina is a pretty straightforward romance story. Steve and Stacy are together. Steve loves Stacy to death, but her vagina creeps him out. So she sends him inside her vagina to find out what's in there. Turns out there's a surreal little biosphere in there, with lots of inhabitants, one of which is a weird cartoony girl named Fig, who soon takes a liking to Steve and doesn't want him to leave Stacy's vagina...
Okay, so it's not very typical, but it's still straightforward. Carlton Mellick has taken a completely ridiculous idea here and given it a more serious approach, mixing in horror and surrealist images along the way. The result is a nice romantic story with genuine feelings, hard truths, and none of the typical stereotypes. Steve loves his girlfriend Stacy, even if she's a little abusive towards him. Several times in the story Steve mentions things that he hates about Stacy. She's even a foot taller than him. They're an odd couple to say the least. Their relationship isn't some perfect symbiosis between two spirits. It's rocky, it's flawed, and it's awkward. That's the message here: love isn't all sunshine and roses. Love can be gruesome and repulsive. But it's still love.
Inside Stacy's vagina, Steve meets Fig, who seems like a better, more innocent version of Stacy. He wants nothing more than to return to the outside world, but he becomes trapped in the vagina, with no hope of escape. I can tell you that Steve ends up with Fig at the end without spoiling too much. It's how he ends up with Fig that's important. And when they are together, Steve becomes a weird latex cartoon like Fig. He comes to love her, and they are their own two-person species, mating for life. I absolutely loved this idea. Steve fits perfectly with Fig, more than he did with Stacy. But just because they fit together perfectly doesn't mean their relationship is perfect. After all, this is love we're talking about. Repulsive, ugly, beautiful, nasty, sweet-smelling love.
Summary of The Haunted Vagina
It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead...Steve is madly in love with his eccentric girlfriend, Stacy. Unfortunately, their sex life has been suffering as of late, because Steve is worried about the odd noises that have been coming from Stacy's pubic region. She says that her vagina is haunted. She doesn't think it's that big of a deal. Steve, on the other hand, completely disagrees.
When a living corpse climbs out of her during an awkward night of sex, Stacy learns that her vagina is actually a doorway to another world. She persuades Steve to climb inside of her to explore this strange new place. But once inside, Steve finds it difficult to return... especially once he meets an oddly attractive woman named Fig, who lives within the lonely haunted world between Stacy's legs.
"A very strange and surprisingly touching love story, despite the deliberately asinine premise. With subtle humor, surreal erotica, and some genuinely creepy moments, The Haunted Vagina is a completely unique reading experience."
"Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene writer in America." - GOTHIC MAGAZINE
"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 has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!" - CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel
"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
"Carlton Melick 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
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