Splatterpunks II

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series. He was also the executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters. Barker's paintings and illustrations have been f...

Kathe Koja was born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, and still lives in the metro Detroit area. She began publishing adult science fiction, horror, and avant-garde short fiction in the mid-1980s. Her 1991 debut novel The Cipher, the first entry in Dell's Abyss horror line, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and remains a touchstone of body-horror fiction. She has since written young adult novels, the historical Under the Pop...

Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 20...

Nancy A. Collins writes dark and imaginative fiction, from the Clockwork Fairy Tales to horror collections like Shock Rock and the Blood Sisters series. She also contributed to Women Writing the Weird II: Dreadful Daughters.

Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections. His later work moved into the genre of dark comedy, with many stories set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Martin's novels are typically standalone books but may feature recurring characters from previous novels and short stories. Muc...