![]() ![]() It’s important to me to get the discussion of splatterpunk out of the way up front. While some might argue the splatterpunk style never died, my personal take is that the movement itself died an uncharacteristically quiet death around 1995. The term caught on, for better or for worse for these authors, since they would forever be regarded as a part of this movement, which ended fairly definitively in the mid-1990s - along with everything else horror-related that were direct offspring of the tumultuous, fear-mongering, devil-worshipping, video store-scented, Headbanger’s Ball-watching, PMRC-stamped 1980s. A handful of other authors were considered a part of the movement. Skipp and Spector ended up as central figures in what came to be known as the “splatterpunk” movement, a term coined in jest by author David J. The publication by Bantam of their first novel, The Light at the End, in 1986, ushered in a new wave of horror fiction with sharp edges and deep hurts. John Skipp and Craig Spector are American horror authors who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s after breaking into Twilight Zone magazine. ![]()
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