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ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK by M. Lopes da Silva, Caias Ward, Eric Raglin, Cynthia Gomez, Gordon B. White, Kathe Koja, J.V. Gachs, Joe Koch, John Baltisberger, Patrick Barb, Max D. Stanton, Donyae Coles, Keith Rosson, Sam Richard, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Sarah Peploe, Ana E. Robic
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inquisitrix's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Splatterpunk isn't a genre that greatly appeals to me; I love horror fiction, but I'm rarely delighted by gore. Most rules result in exceptions, though, and ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK seems to be one of mine. It turns out there's something immensely satisfying about a big horrible messy gross splatter when it's made up of fascist garbage, and this collection leans into that satisfaction as far as it can go.
I'll admit that I'm the kind of coward who reads books like this with one hand in front of my face like I'm watching a movie I know is about to get gory and I'm scared I'll have to look away at any moment. Many of these stories contain scenes of carnage so vivid and visceral they feel burned into the backs of my eyelids. This is not a book for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach, but if you dream of rolling with punk necromancers and punching Nazi trash so hard they're propelled directly through the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead (see Caias Ward's wonderfully wild story "Snorting Ghosts in the Cause of Anti-Fascism", possibly my favourite story in the anthology) well, this is definitely a book for you.
Fans of contemporary indie horror may recognize many of the names in this book's TOC. A few of my recent favourite writers of weird and terrifying fiction make gruesomely effective appearances here (Gordon B. White, Donyae Coles, Joe Koch, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, and anthology editor Eric Raglin). Extreme horror still isn't really my cup of tea, on the whole, but this book does what it does so well that even a coward like me found a lot to enjoy.
I'll admit that I'm the kind of coward who reads books like this with one hand in front of my face like I'm watching a movie I know is about to get gory and I'm scared I'll have to look away at any moment. Many of these stories contain scenes of carnage so vivid and visceral they feel burned into the backs of my eyelids. This is not a book for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach, but if you dream of rolling with punk necromancers and punching Nazi trash so hard they're propelled directly through the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead (see Caias Ward's wonderfully wild story "Snorting Ghosts in the Cause of Anti-Fascism", possibly my favourite story in the anthology) well, this is definitely a book for you.
Fans of contemporary indie horror may recognize many of the names in this book's TOC. A few of my recent favourite writers of weird and terrifying fiction make gruesomely effective appearances here (Gordon B. White, Donyae Coles, Joe Koch, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, and anthology editor Eric Raglin). Extreme horror still isn't really my cup of tea, on the whole, but this book does what it does so well that even a coward like me found a lot to enjoy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Violence
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