To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful. These are words we can use to describe Clive Barker only until we invent new, more fitting adjectives.
- Quentin Tarantino

Splatterpunk, yes ma'am!

What is Splatterpunk? 

Splatterpunk. A contemporary mixture of horror, gore, fantasy, grunge and sci-fi rolled up like a burrito.

Why is Clive Barker Splatterpunk?


If you've followed these blogs, you can see why the aforementioned and Clive Barker fit into a nice little niche together, and why it's people like Clive Barker surging the Splatterpunk movement.

It's bloody descriptions, it's detail galore, and it's enjoying pulling out the innards of juicy, wet, fantastic stories like...Clive Barker's "Pig Blood Blues", "The Yattering and Jack", "The Midnight Meat Train", it's stories that grip you, and make it a race against time to continue reading, and continue falling deeper under the spell.
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