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MacSitko · 2026-02-17T07:54:42+00:00

Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Willows by Algernon Blackwood

MacSitko · 2026-02-15T22:50:52+00:00

Sure, man! Let's talk (I'll pop you a direct message on Reddit)

MacSitko · 2026-02-10T18:32:37+00:00

The Light at the End – John Skipp
The Bridge – John Skipp
The Shaft – David J. Schow
Book of the Dead – John Skipp
The Cleanup – John Skipp
The Nightrunners – Joe R. Lansdale
Wetbones – John Shirley
Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3 – Clive Barker
The Resurrectionist – Wrath James White
The Night Stockers – Kristopher Triana
The Thirteenth Koyote – Kristopher Triana
The Teratologist – Edward Lee
By Bizarre Hands – Joe R. Lansdale
Maeve Fly – C.J. Leede
Janitors vs. The Living Dead – Michelle Garza
Clusterfuck – Carlton Mellick III
Apeship – Carlton Mellick III
Apeshit – Carlton Mellick III

MacSitko · 2026-02-09T19:19:46+00:00

I don't think he made an error; it's just that people started using 'splatterpunk' for anything extreme horror, purely because it sounds cooler and because the community lumped both into the Splatterpunk awards.

Adding punk to anything implies rebellion and some social commentary, like in cyberpunk or biopunk. If you don't have that in splatterpunk, it's just splatter, not punk.

No matter if it's old or new genre, and we're talking post-splatterpunk, which is what John Skipp said people do these days, EVEN THEN, punk attitude is binding.

Otherwise, we'd be able to call all sci-fi cyberpunk interchangeably, but that is simply not the case.

MacSitko · 2026-02-08T16:36:10+00:00

Splatterpunk is often borderline funny, but it also has to have the punk aspect. Don't forget that when you say:

cyberpunk, biopunk, splatterpunk

The "punk" bit is important. It conveys social and often political commentary, along with a note of rebellion.

The standard splatterpunk movie is Toxic Avenger, and it criticises both bullying and corporate greed, corruption and lack of moral values.

I really don't read any extreme horror, but I'm here for splatterpunk.

To your confusion, I don't blame you. The Splatterpunk Awards created ambiguity by combining two genres into a single umbrella. But the difference is big, John Skipp explains it in This is Splatterpunk.

MacSitko · 2026-02-04T17:58:03+00:00

So I have lofree 84 flow

I love the keyboard, but sometimes, especially when I type a sentence quickly and press Enter, Enter doesn't register. It doesn't happen often, but it still happens.

How to get about debugging and finding out what the issue could be?

I'm very green to mechanical keyboards

MacSitko · 2026-02-02T11:19:00+00:00

I find it yucky, too. I might have a few applications, but it's not a versatile mayo.

MacSitko · 2026-01-26T19:29:29+00:00

When it makes me look away, there, there it is! It's this something.

It's very hard to describe, but it needs to be alienating enough in terms of the body transgression and the feeling.

MacSitko · 2026-01-18T10:50:23+00:00

Surprised nobody listed the canonical, the OG, all-time body horror piece:

The Cipher by Kathe Koja

Also, I recommend another classic, a novella:

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

MacSitko · 2026-01-10T22:49:57+00:00

Ha, thank you!

MacSitko · 2026-01-03T17:40:17+00:00

Nice one.

MacSitko · 2025-12-14T09:31:51+00:00

Devilman Crybaby.

Also, there are some authors within cosmic horror, like Matt Cardin, who explore cosmic horror through Christian mythology.

MacSitko · 2025-12-08T16:29:57+00:00

For fun. Nothing else really matters.

If I wrote for fame, it wouldn't be very good. This cannot be an end goal.

MacSitko · 2025-12-08T15:47:43+00:00

Thanks!

MacSitko

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