So many of these Extreme Horror writers fall into the Goregrind mentality. But if being Brutal and Repulsive is your flagship character trait artistically speaking then you at least have to be fucking creative about it. Or be a 100% absolutely undyingly committed to the bit. Or something! You really think you're the first chump to think about a story where everyone is awful and they all commit rape and murder and incest and everything is gorey and rotten and gangrenous? That's the depth of your depravity? And you don't even have anything interesting to say about any of it? Come on now.
Clive Barker has a philosophical obsession with the line between agony and ecstasy that permeates all his books. All of Max Booth's characters are deeply unpleasant in extremely grounded and horrifically entertaining ways. Hell, Matthew Stokoe clearly has mastered the prose of any and all disgusting shit. So clearly this isn't a problem of subject but rather execution, or lack thereof. If Triana really thinks that competent craft and garden variety terrible things happening in quick succession is gonna make him stand out then he's dead wrong. Those kinds of books are dime a dozen in the genre.
These sorta guys, they think they're Cattle Decapitation- when they're not even Cliteater
Gone Too See The River Man really has me whelmed.
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The night guard quit. He seemed shaken, and he said that he'd been out doing his rounds, shining that light around, and he'd gotten the impression that something was silently swinging between the metal supports above him, in the dark...
Base photo by @senselessfool.bsky.social on bluesky, thank you!
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The Hounds of Tindalos
(an illustration for Stranger Sights)
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Wouldn’t you be much warmer inside?
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The empty room looms no body, but eyes and teeth and the veins that connect them.
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Those leaked Apollo mission photos are a little strange
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