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A Sad Last Love at
the Diner of the Damned
Important splatterpunk works include the novels The
Kill Riff, by David Schow; Slob, by Rex
Miller; The Cipher, by Kathe
Koja; Off Season, by Jack
Ketchum; The Scream, by Skipp and
Spector; Cellars, by John
Shirley; Dr. Identity, by D. Harlan
Wilson; and the short story collections Splatterpunk:
Extreme Horror and Splatterpunks II: Over
the Edge, edited by Paul Sammon and published in 1990
and 1995, respectively.
Other authors sometimes
considered exponents of the splatterpunk genre include
Nancy Collins, Roberta Lannes, Richard Laymon, Edward
Lee, and Michael Boatman.
In short stories, Edward Bryant's "A Sad Last Love at
the Diner of the Damned", which takes place in the world
akin to George A. Romero's zombie universe, is often
cited as a classic of the genre in addition to the book
that first contained it, the zombie-themed Book of the
Dead anthology edited by splatterpunk legends Skipp and
Spector.
As a commercial force in horror fiction, splatterpunk
never achieved more than a cult following, particularly
in the work of Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
Splatterpunk - Index
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