Carlton Mellick Iii The Bad Box

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For almost 20 years, CarltonMellickIII has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 byThe Guardianand “one of the most original novelists working today” by extreme horror legend Edward Lee,Mellickreturns with a short novella about the horrors of childhood. Little Benny isn’t very good at taking tests. It’s not that he’s a stupid kid or doesn’t pay attention in class. It’s just that he’s absolutely terrified of failure. It doesn’t matter how hard he studies. He gets so nervous that he freezes up and his mind goes blank, rarely even answering a single question before the time is up. This is especially difficult now that he’s in Mrs. Gustafson’s fifth grade class, where the punishment for failure is to draw a curse from the bad box—a magical device that permanently mutates children into horrific monsters. The Bad Boxis an absurd horror story for fans ofMellick’s creepy cute novellas such asMouse TrapandEvery Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes.

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