Splatterpunk

Splatterpunk—a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island—refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." It is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story". ...more

Maeve Fly
No One Rides For Free
Playground
Rotten Tommy
Rest Stop
Are Your Parents Home?
Puzzle House
Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)
You've Lost a Lot of Blood
Moonflow
Blender Babies
Grandpappy
Brainwyrms
Fluids
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
Playground
Woom
The Slob
Dead Inside
Gone to See the River Man
Exquisite Corpse
100% Match
Cows
Off Season (Dead River, #1)
No One Rides For Free
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)
Full Brutal
The Black Farm (The Black Farm, #1)
The Groomer
Maeve Fly
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Malachai Blackthorn
The silence at its core is not absence but appetite, and once it finds you, it does not let go.
Malachai Blackthorn, The Quiet Cold

Malachai Blackthorn
You’ll wake with a mouthful of cobweb and thread. Your voice now a puppet he dangles from bed.
Malachai Blackthorn, The Ossuary Psalms

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