{"product_id":"the-big-meat-carlton-mellick-iii-9781621052487","title":"The Big Meat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick III, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eQuicksand House \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCuddly Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a \"kaiju\" tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe creature was finally dead. After months of fighting it, trying desperately to stop it as it rampaged across the American countryside, turning city after city into a landscape of rubble, we finally managed to beat the damned thing. We actually saved the human species. We survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the corpse still lingers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the center of the city once known as Portland, Oregon, there lies a mountain of flesh. Hundreds of thousands of tons of rotting flesh. It has filled the city with disease and dead-lizard stench, contaminated the water supply with its greasy putrid fluids, clogged the air with toxic gasses so thick that you can't leave your house without the aid of a gas mask. And no one really knows quite what to do about it. A thousand-man demolition crew has been trying to clear it out one piece at a time, but after three months of work they've barely made a dent. And then there's the junkies who have started burrowing into the monster's guts, searching for a drug produced by its fire glands, setting back the excavation even longer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems like the corpse will never go away. And with the quarantine still in place, we're not even allowed to leave. We're stuck in this disgusting rotten hell forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Big Meat\u003c\/em\u003e is a gut-wrenching, nerve-squirming survival story of loss, addiction, and claustrophobia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlton III Mellick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621052486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621052487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eraserhead Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Carlton III Mellick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987013927167,"sku":"9781621052487","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c389547-3a26-4e61-9f4e-d811a94008d9.jpg?v=1683286498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-big-meat-carlton-mellick-iii-9781621052487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}