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Extremely Weird Splatter
SPLATTER THE NORMAL
For this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.
Join three Lifetime Achievement Award winners from the top of the horror game along with other decorated veteran authors, rising stars, and emerging talents in deep depravity as skin peels, eyeballs pop, innards become outards, and sex involves… twists… you’ll have to see for yourself.
The authors plotting against your wellness are a coalition from different parts of the US and UK as well as from Canada, Costa Rica, India, Ireland, Italy, and Nick Badot, L. Andrew Cooper, JB Corso, Suvajeet Duttagupta, JG Faherty, Angelique Fawns, Tom Johnstone, Leonardo J. Lamanna, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Christine Morgan, Jason Nickey, Monica J. O’Rourke, J. Rohr, C.M. Saunders, Dan Scamell, Steve Rasnic Tem, Vox Villalobos, Maxim Volk, and Etta Wynn.
Get a little turned on as a man mutilates himself in search of ultimate pleasure in Faherty’s “The Fishhook Prophecy.” Learn all about the historical process called “Scaphism,” perhaps the worst thing you can do to a person, in O’Rourke’s “Symmetry.” Take a frightening look at human skin with Steve Rasnic Tem in “Dermis.” Explore whether dismemberment and mutilation can help you get closer to God in Lamanna’s “How to Build a Meat Radio.” Explore liminal space that makes nasty connections between past and present through Nickey’s “Portal.”
Dive in and get Extremely Weird Splatter all over you. Why be normal?
For this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.
Join three Lifetime Achievement Award winners from the top of the horror game along with other decorated veteran authors, rising stars, and emerging talents in deep depravity as skin peels, eyeballs pop, innards become outards, and sex involves… twists… you’ll have to see for yourself.
The authors plotting against your wellness are a coalition from different parts of the US and UK as well as from Canada, Costa Rica, India, Ireland, Italy, and Nick Badot, L. Andrew Cooper, JB Corso, Suvajeet Duttagupta, JG Faherty, Angelique Fawns, Tom Johnstone, Leonardo J. Lamanna, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Christine Morgan, Jason Nickey, Monica J. O’Rourke, J. Rohr, C.M. Saunders, Dan Scamell, Steve Rasnic Tem, Vox Villalobos, Maxim Volk, and Etta Wynn.
Get a little turned on as a man mutilates himself in search of ultimate pleasure in Faherty’s “The Fishhook Prophecy.” Learn all about the historical process called “Scaphism,” perhaps the worst thing you can do to a person, in O’Rourke’s “Symmetry.” Take a frightening look at human skin with Steve Rasnic Tem in “Dermis.” Explore whether dismemberment and mutilation can help you get closer to God in Lamanna’s “How to Build a Meat Radio.” Explore liminal space that makes nasty connections between past and present through Nickey’s “Portal.”
Dive in and get Extremely Weird Splatter all over you. Why be normal?
265 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2026
About the author
L. Andrew Cooper
34 books39 followersL. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. His current project, The Middle Reaches, is a serialized epic of weird horror and dark fantasy on Amazon Kindle Vella. His latest release, Records of the Hightower Massacre, an LGBTQ+ horror novella co-authored with Maeva Wunn, imagines a near-future dystopia where anti-queer hate runs a program to "correct" deviants. Stains of Atrocity, his newest collection of stories, goes to uncomfortable psychological and visceral extremes. His latest novel, Crazy Time, combines literary horror and dark fantasy in a contemporary quest to undo what may be a divine curse. Other published works include novels Burning the Middle Ground and Descending Lines; short story collections Leaping at Thorns and Peritoneum; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Gothic Realities and Dario Argento; co-edited fiction anthologies Imagination Reimagined and Reel Dark; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written more than 30 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Harvard and Princeton, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses on writing and lives with his husband in North Hollywood, California. Find him at www.landrewcooper.com.
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August 17, 2026
ARC REVIEW
This short story horror collection is basically the Prego sauce of horror, “it’s in there”! From supernatural scares to splatterpunk mayhem, there’s a little something for every kind of horror fan. Ghosts? Check. Gore? Absolutely. Weird, disturbing situations that make you question why you’re still reading at 2 a.m.? Yep, those too.
I genuinely enjoyed all 19 stories. Each one brought something different to the table, and the collection did a great job of keeping things unpredictable. Some were creepy, some were gross, some were downright sad, and a few were violent enough to make me reconsider eating while reading.
Overall, it’s a fun, nasty little collection with plenty of variety. If you like your horror with a side of blood, nightmares, and questionable life choices, this one has you covered. Basically; open the jar, grab a spoon, and enjoy the horror!
Thanks to Book Sirens for sending me an advanced copy to read and review
This short story horror collection is basically the Prego sauce of horror, “it’s in there”! From supernatural scares to splatterpunk mayhem, there’s a little something for every kind of horror fan. Ghosts? Check. Gore? Absolutely. Weird, disturbing situations that make you question why you’re still reading at 2 a.m.? Yep, those too.
I genuinely enjoyed all 19 stories. Each one brought something different to the table, and the collection did a great job of keeping things unpredictable. Some were creepy, some were gross, some were downright sad, and a few were violent enough to make me reconsider eating while reading.
Overall, it’s a fun, nasty little collection with plenty of variety. If you like your horror with a side of blood, nightmares, and questionable life choices, this one has you covered. Basically; open the jar, grab a spoon, and enjoy the horror!
Thanks to Book Sirens for sending me an advanced copy to read and review
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
You know, I've never thought of combining weird/bizarro with splatter before, and Andrew is a certified genius for doing it! These two sub-genres work together so well and reading the stories was an adventure of 'Wtf did I just read' and staring in horrified awe at the stories.
Let's talk some favourites by category, though there's certainly not one single bad story in the lot!
First section is Extremely Weird Sex and boy howdy was it a doozy! The obvious choice here for favourite is The Fishhook Prophecy by JG Faherty (who doesn't love Hellraiser vibes), but the dark horse sneaking in for the win is My Love, Like Moss, Envelops You by Maxim Volk. Volk's use of botanical analogy was gorgeously done and Johnny's final act was so poetic
Next is Extremely Weird Splatter Magic, where the unexplainable is so in! What They Deseve by Christine Morgan started us off and it's so relatable and wild. After all, who doesn't have an ex they'd love to see fed to an animal? Shoutout to Symmetry by Monica J. O'Rourke for making me physically turn green....I'll be seeing those scenes in my nightmares, thank you.
Third is Extremely Weird Self-Splatter and every story here made me more nauseous than any story has a right to 😂 The Weight of the Dark by Suvajeet Duttagupta was particularly poignant and concerning considering we all have a shadow we can't get away from.....
Fourth is Weird Splatter Production and Scenarios by JB Corso knocked it out of the park. We've seen alien abduction, but not like this. Not ehen every day feels like a lifetime as you watch your loved ones die over and over and over
And finally, Extremely Weird Trips! Portal by Jason Nickey is a gem, plain and simple. Andrew picked the absolute vest story he could have to be the anchor and I loved the final gut punch to close out the book
I may or may not be mildly obsessed with this combination of horror and will forever be chasing my next read to try and knock Extremely Weird Splatter off it's throne!
Let's talk some favourites by category, though there's certainly not one single bad story in the lot!
First section is Extremely Weird Sex and boy howdy was it a doozy! The obvious choice here for favourite is The Fishhook Prophecy by JG Faherty (who doesn't love Hellraiser vibes), but the dark horse sneaking in for the win is My Love, Like Moss, Envelops You by Maxim Volk. Volk's use of botanical analogy was gorgeously done and Johnny's final act was so poetic
Next is Extremely Weird Splatter Magic, where the unexplainable is so in! What They Deseve by Christine Morgan started us off and it's so relatable and wild. After all, who doesn't have an ex they'd love to see fed to an animal? Shoutout to Symmetry by Monica J. O'Rourke for making me physically turn green....I'll be seeing those scenes in my nightmares, thank you.
Third is Extremely Weird Self-Splatter and every story here made me more nauseous than any story has a right to 😂 The Weight of the Dark by Suvajeet Duttagupta was particularly poignant and concerning considering we all have a shadow we can't get away from.....
Fourth is Weird Splatter Production and Scenarios by JB Corso knocked it out of the park. We've seen alien abduction, but not like this. Not ehen every day feels like a lifetime as you watch your loved ones die over and over and over
And finally, Extremely Weird Trips! Portal by Jason Nickey is a gem, plain and simple. Andrew picked the absolute vest story he could have to be the anchor and I loved the final gut punch to close out the book
I may or may not be mildly obsessed with this combination of horror and will forever be chasing my next read to try and knock Extremely Weird Splatter off it's throne!
October 13, 2026
Extremely Weird Splatter is a phenomenal anthology with 19 stories of … well … extremely weird splatter penned by talented authors from all around the globe. This well-put-together anthology is intriguingly divided into five titillating sections: Extremely Weird Sex (4 stories), Weird Splatter Magic (5 stories), Extremely Weird Self-Splatter (3 stories), Weird Splatter Production (4 stories), and Extremely Weird Trips (3 stories). And nothing can prepare you for the dark and brilliant ways these authors interpret and present these themes.
The first story of Extremely Weird Sex, “Debbie Does Delos…?” by Tom Johnstone, was not what I expected based on the title, not at all, which is a good thing. However, I was unprepared for the slow, relentless darkening and twisting and ultimate chest-tightening horror of this incredibly well-crafted tale. Truly, though, all the stories in the Extremely Weird Sex section are heavily impactful and impactfully disturbing.
Weird Splatter Magic starts off with “What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan, and the story starts off ominous and brutal, and that is only the intense prelude that serves as foreshadowing for this riveting and hard-hitting tale. The other four stories in this section are completely different from this and one another, but all are immersive, suspenseful, and chilling.
The Extremely Weird Self-Splatter section is not what you might think. There’s a tale of obsession, one of consequences, and the third story, “A Parent Sacrifices” by J. Rohr, about sacrifice. This story has a very unsettling depth and evocative gruesomeness that are uncomfortably thought-provoking.
The stories in Weird Splatter Production are a whole other level of subgenre-defying, gut-clenching horrors. Among these is the weird splatterpunk tale “Soup” by Vox Villalobos, a ruthless, vicious, riveting statement about issues of the workplace.
The Extremely Weird Trips stories are a testament to the thesaurus entry for “trip.” They are all very different types of hellish trips of terrors and horrors, all leading to places that will make you cringe.
Extremely Weird Splatter is an absolute must-read for all fans of extreme horror, splatterpunk, and weird horror.
A Bibliophilia Templum review
https://bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/extremely-weird-splatter/
The first story of Extremely Weird Sex, “Debbie Does Delos…?” by Tom Johnstone, was not what I expected based on the title, not at all, which is a good thing. However, I was unprepared for the slow, relentless darkening and twisting and ultimate chest-tightening horror of this incredibly well-crafted tale. Truly, though, all the stories in the Extremely Weird Sex section are heavily impactful and impactfully disturbing.
Weird Splatter Magic starts off with “What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan, and the story starts off ominous and brutal, and that is only the intense prelude that serves as foreshadowing for this riveting and hard-hitting tale. The other four stories in this section are completely different from this and one another, but all are immersive, suspenseful, and chilling.
The Extremely Weird Self-Splatter section is not what you might think. There’s a tale of obsession, one of consequences, and the third story, “A Parent Sacrifices” by J. Rohr, about sacrifice. This story has a very unsettling depth and evocative gruesomeness that are uncomfortably thought-provoking.
The stories in Weird Splatter Production are a whole other level of subgenre-defying, gut-clenching horrors. Among these is the weird splatterpunk tale “Soup” by Vox Villalobos, a ruthless, vicious, riveting statement about issues of the workplace.
The Extremely Weird Trips stories are a testament to the thesaurus entry for “trip.” They are all very different types of hellish trips of terrors and horrors, all leading to places that will make you cringe.
Extremely Weird Splatter is an absolute must-read for all fans of extreme horror, splatterpunk, and weird horror.
A Bibliophilia Templum review
https://bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/extremely-weird-splatter/
Review of advance copy received from Author
This anthology is full of stories that are strange and macabre. Some of these stories will make you go… hmmm. Several authors in this anthology are new to me and I really enjoyed reading through them. It was a wonderful blend of suspense, humor, grossness, and WTF! These are my favs from the bunch.
“The Fishhook Prophesy” by JG Fajerty is a story about two police detectives investigating a scene where the decedent turned himself into a pin cushion. Was it weird sex, erotica, or was the guy just loony? They say “don’t knock it til you try it.”
“What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan is a story about friends discussing their relationships at a bar. As their conversations progress, they discover a special that they cannot pass up.
“Sam the Cat” by L. Andrew Cooper is a story that made me gasp but also cracked me up. Joel’s wife has passed away. Her funeral has just occurred yet Joel is figuring out what he can do to bring her back. How far will he go? Would you do the same?
“The Copper Merchant” by Nick Badot is a fun fantasy that has its quirks. It takes us back to ancient times and reveals a story of love, deception and revenge.
“The Weight of the Dark” by Suvajeet Duttagupta is a creative tale about the things that lurk in the dark. Pravi is doing what she can to get by. She is only concerned with benefiting herself. The dark knows what she has done.
I really enjoyed how imaginative the stories were. I’m looking forward to reading more from the new to me authors. Grab this book! It’s worth it!
“The Fishhook Prophesy” by JG Fajerty is a story about two police detectives investigating a scene where the decedent turned himself into a pin cushion. Was it weird sex, erotica, or was the guy just loony? They say “don’t knock it til you try it.”
“What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan is a story about friends discussing their relationships at a bar. As their conversations progress, they discover a special that they cannot pass up.
“Sam the Cat” by L. Andrew Cooper is a story that made me gasp but also cracked me up. Joel’s wife has passed away. Her funeral has just occurred yet Joel is figuring out what he can do to bring her back. How far will he go? Would you do the same?
“The Copper Merchant” by Nick Badot is a fun fantasy that has its quirks. It takes us back to ancient times and reveals a story of love, deception and revenge.
“The Weight of the Dark” by Suvajeet Duttagupta is a creative tale about the things that lurk in the dark. Pravi is doing what she can to get by. She is only concerned with benefiting herself. The dark knows what she has done.
I really enjoyed how imaginative the stories were. I’m looking forward to reading more from the new to me authors. Grab this book! It’s worth it!
August 9, 2026
Such a dark, fun, but disturbing journey this collection was. From weird mc’s to straight up wild body horror and even some life lessons. This is a must read for lovers of all this grimy , dark, grotesque, unique and straight up gory.
August 27, 2026
Some of these were just brilliant i think if you want short shocking splatter fun definitely pick this up!
Loved it! There were a few were a misfires though so it’s why i went with 4 and not 5 stars. I did find some new authors too. Also I’ll read anything by L. Andrew Cooper.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Loved it! There were a few were a misfires though so it’s why i went with 4 and not 5 stars. I did find some new authors too. Also I’ll read anything by L. Andrew Cooper.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Review of advance copy
Extremely Weird Splatter is a great collection of short stories that do the title justice! This anthology contains nineteen stories, all from different authors, divided into five categories- Extremely Weird Sex, Weird Splatter Magic, Extremely Weird Self-Splatter, Weird Splatter Production, and Extremely Weird Trips. This isn’t for the faint-hearted; expect lots of weirdness, gore, body horror, and just straight up bizarre content!
What I appreciated most about this collection was how balanced and cohesive it felt. Many times I find anthologies to have some really excellent stories and others that are just a slog to get through, but in the case of Extremely Weird Splatter, everything works well together. None of the stories feel out of place or overstay their welcome, and they all are executed well. Of course, there are always going to be stronger and weaker entries in the list, but for the most part the ideas, skill levels, and overall execution felt quite even. I thought the way the stories were organized was a nice touch as well. Many of the stories have a bit of humor thrown in, and I enjoyed how they were inter-cut with the more serious entries for balance. It is very obvious that a lot of passion and attention to detail went into this book.
Some standouts, for me personally, include:
The Fishhook Prophecy- While this story did feel Hellraiser-inspired, as I’m sure others will point out, it never feels like a copycat and holds its own very well. This was easily one of my favorites of the bunch. The concept is grotesque and the writing immediately sucks you in. It’ll have you wincing, but just like the detective in the story, there might be a small part of you that’s thinking… What if?
Symmetry- I enjoyed how inventive the author gets with this one. I’d say it has the darkest tone/ atmosphere out of the collection.
Scenarios- I love some good sci-fi horror! This one has a neat premise and the idea of such long-lasting torment is so chilling.
On the Fringes- A drug trip quickly descends into chaos. It’s a good reminder to stay away from unknown substances!
Portal- This was an excellent story to end the book. It’s not a new idea, but it takes some familiar tropes and tightens them up into a strong page-turner.
Overall, I found this to be an entertaining, well-done collection of stories from a great selection of authors. It's a fun time and definitely worth a read if you are a fan of the genre.
What I appreciated most about this collection was how balanced and cohesive it felt. Many times I find anthologies to have some really excellent stories and others that are just a slog to get through, but in the case of Extremely Weird Splatter, everything works well together. None of the stories feel out of place or overstay their welcome, and they all are executed well. Of course, there are always going to be stronger and weaker entries in the list, but for the most part the ideas, skill levels, and overall execution felt quite even. I thought the way the stories were organized was a nice touch as well. Many of the stories have a bit of humor thrown in, and I enjoyed how they were inter-cut with the more serious entries for balance. It is very obvious that a lot of passion and attention to detail went into this book.
Some standouts, for me personally, include:
The Fishhook Prophecy- While this story did feel Hellraiser-inspired, as I’m sure others will point out, it never feels like a copycat and holds its own very well. This was easily one of my favorites of the bunch. The concept is grotesque and the writing immediately sucks you in. It’ll have you wincing, but just like the detective in the story, there might be a small part of you that’s thinking… What if?
Symmetry- I enjoyed how inventive the author gets with this one. I’d say it has the darkest tone/ atmosphere out of the collection.
Scenarios- I love some good sci-fi horror! This one has a neat premise and the idea of such long-lasting torment is so chilling.
On the Fringes- A drug trip quickly descends into chaos. It’s a good reminder to stay away from unknown substances!
Portal- This was an excellent story to end the book. It’s not a new idea, but it takes some familiar tropes and tightens them up into a strong page-turner.
Overall, I found this to be an entertaining, well-done collection of stories from a great selection of authors. It's a fun time and definitely worth a read if you are a fan of the genre.
Review of advance copy
Extremely Weird Splatter is an extreme horror anthology with 19 stories. Some stories were fantastical, absurd, and just straight up weird. A good amount of gore and body horror. The stories are split up into 5 parts:
Part 1: Extremely Weird Sex
My favorite story in part 1 was “The Fishhook Prophecy” by JG Faherty, where a detective engages in self-mutilation in search of the ultimate pleasure. Such a good story that kept me squirming. I will never look at fishhooks the same way again.
Part 2: Weird Splatter Magic
My favorite story in part 2 was “What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan, where a group of girlfriends (and their gay bestie) chip in for a Valentine’s Day special. I hope the girls enjoyed their meat!
Part 3: Extremely Weird Self-Splatter
My favorite story in part 3 was “A Parent Sacrifices” by J. Rohr, where two parents must give a bonsai tree a bodily sacrifice to remove their newborn’s deformities. I felt so bad for the mom! She sacrificed more than the father.
Part 4: Weird Splatter Production
My favorite story in part 4 was “Soup” by Vox Villalobos, where an evil supervisor at a factory keeps his workers in check through fear and violence. Yikes! This one made me cringe. Lots of gore.
Part 5: Extremely Weird Trips
My favorite story in part 5 was “Portal” by Jason Nickey, where a man wakes up in his childhood home and uncovers a suppressed memory. At first I felt bad for Roger but then it's revealed what he has done. Great story with a twist.
Such a fun EH anthology mixed with some weird themes!
Thank you, BookSirens and Horrific Scribblings, for the ARC.
Part 1: Extremely Weird Sex
My favorite story in part 1 was “The Fishhook Prophecy” by JG Faherty, where a detective engages in self-mutilation in search of the ultimate pleasure. Such a good story that kept me squirming. I will never look at fishhooks the same way again.
Part 2: Weird Splatter Magic
My favorite story in part 2 was “What They Deserve” by Christine Morgan, where a group of girlfriends (and their gay bestie) chip in for a Valentine’s Day special. I hope the girls enjoyed their meat!
Part 3: Extremely Weird Self-Splatter
My favorite story in part 3 was “A Parent Sacrifices” by J. Rohr, where two parents must give a bonsai tree a bodily sacrifice to remove their newborn’s deformities. I felt so bad for the mom! She sacrificed more than the father.
Part 4: Weird Splatter Production
My favorite story in part 4 was “Soup” by Vox Villalobos, where an evil supervisor at a factory keeps his workers in check through fear and violence. Yikes! This one made me cringe. Lots of gore.
Part 5: Extremely Weird Trips
My favorite story in part 5 was “Portal” by Jason Nickey, where a man wakes up in his childhood home and uncovers a suppressed memory. At first I felt bad for Roger but then it's revealed what he has done. Great story with a twist.
Such a fun EH anthology mixed with some weird themes!
Thank you, BookSirens and Horrific Scribblings, for the ARC.
October 16, 2026
Extremely Weird Splatter is exactly the kind of feral, off kilter horror I reach for when I want something that feels like it crawled out of a ruptured dimension. Cooper doesn’t just write splatterpunk he mutates it. These stories drip with grotesque invention, the kind of body horror that feels loud and gleefully wrong in all the ways extreme horror should be.
The collection thrives on its weirdness. Cooper’s imagery hits with fever dream clarity, every texture amplified, every transformation pushed past the point of comfort. There’s a manic creativity running through these stories that makes even the most deranged moments feel intentional. When a piece lands, it lands unapologetically nasty.
As with any short story collection, some entries hit harder than others, and each reader will have their own favourites. Even the lighter pieces still carry Cooper’s signature “let’s push this further” energy, keeping the whole collection humming with chaotic momentum.
If you like your horror bizarre, bloody, and proudly unhinged, this collection scratches that itch with claws. It’s weird in the best way the kind that lingers.
ARC provided by Booksiren; thoughts are my own.
The collection thrives on its weirdness. Cooper’s imagery hits with fever dream clarity, every texture amplified, every transformation pushed past the point of comfort. There’s a manic creativity running through these stories that makes even the most deranged moments feel intentional. When a piece lands, it lands unapologetically nasty.
As with any short story collection, some entries hit harder than others, and each reader will have their own favourites. Even the lighter pieces still carry Cooper’s signature “let’s push this further” energy, keeping the whole collection humming with chaotic momentum.
If you like your horror bizarre, bloody, and proudly unhinged, this collection scratches that itch with claws. It’s weird in the best way the kind that lingers.
ARC provided by Booksiren; thoughts are my own.
October 15, 2026
The anthology's premise is genius, and I wonder how come noone thought of this before! Perhaps the combination of weird and splatter sounds too contradictory or paradoxical or too hard to visualize, but several scenes in the 19 stories of this book achieve stardom status for me, and will stay in my mind for a long while. Mixing weird fiction-slash-bizarro with huge doses of splatter ultimately made a lot of sense in an (admittedly horrifying) adventurous spirit, though it's certainly the skill of the authors that made it all look easy and straightforward. My favorites were: "The Fishhook Prophecy" by JG Faherty, "Shoutout to Symmetry" by Monica J. O'Rourke, "Dermis" by Steve Rasnic Tem, "On the Fringes" by C. M. Saunders, and the brilliant "Portal" by Jason Nickey. I'd recommend the book on the strength of these tales alone!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Review of advance copy
A collection of 19 Eccentric, Viscerally Disturbing, Unhinged Splatter tales arranged into five distinct parts; Extremely Weird Sex, Weird Splatter Magic, Extremely Weird Self-Splatter, Weird Splatter Production, and Extremely Weird Trips. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection. The stories are intense, engaging, gory and really well written.
*Absolute faves for me were:
*My Love, Like Moss, Envelops You by Maxim Volk
*Sam the Cat by L. Andrew Cooper
*What They Deserve by Christine Morgan
*Adoration of Evil by Thomas C. Mavroudis
*Dermis by Steve Rasnic Tem
*The Weight of the Dark by Suvajeet Duttagupta
A Parent Sacrifices by J. Rohr
*On the Fringes by C. M. Saunders
*Portal by Jason Nickey
Freakishly Fun, Foul stories! Recommended for all all Splatterpunk fans!
*Absolute faves for me were:
*My Love, Like Moss, Envelops You by Maxim Volk
*Sam the Cat by L. Andrew Cooper
*What They Deserve by Christine Morgan
*Adoration of Evil by Thomas C. Mavroudis
*Dermis by Steve Rasnic Tem
*The Weight of the Dark by Suvajeet Duttagupta
A Parent Sacrifices by J. Rohr
*On the Fringes by C. M. Saunders
*Portal by Jason Nickey
Freakishly Fun, Foul stories! Recommended for all all Splatterpunk fans!
Review of advance copy
The premise of Extremely Weird Splatter does not lie: it is extreme splatterpunk. Every story in this anthology will give you a visceral reaction. If you have a weak stomach - don't read these. "The Fishhook Prophecy" by JG Faherty and "MySkin Everflesh" by Dan Scamell almost made me crawl out of my skin. "Highway to Hell Fan" by Angelique Fawns was probably my favorite, because it was so absurd and original. If you're into extreme gore and body horror, this is definitely a must read. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Review of advance copy
decided to use this book to ease back into reading after a chaotic month and i must say, it has enough to sustain me.
however, as with books that ''have it all', i was not a fan of Part Two as i am a person that loves constant body horror (so Part One was an absolute treat for me, very well written!)
i would say that there is something for everyone in this book, and this is a great one to start with or ease yourself back into reading just like i did :)
however, as with books that ''have it all', i was not a fan of Part Two as i am a person that loves constant body horror (so Part One was an absolute treat for me, very well written!)
i would say that there is something for everyone in this book, and this is a great one to start with or ease yourself back into reading just like i did :)
Review of advance copy
Thanks to BookSirens for the ARC copy of Extremely Weird Splatter. The collection spanned a wide range of splatter themes such as magic, hallucinations, and body horror. The last two stories "On The Fringes" and "Portal" were the two best works in the whole book.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
October 14, 2026
Read for Steve Rasnic Tem’s new story “Dermis” which I am giving 4 stars to. The other stories were passable at best.
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