Hardcore Corner

This page features authors and filmmakers who are doing hardcore/extreme/splatterpunk horror work, of which I have become quite fond.

The photos link to interviews and information I’ve gotten directly from the artists. The names beneath the photos link to pages with more information about the artists, usually personal websites, author pages, or pages with more relevant links.

The “extreme features” are either works generally known to be among the artist’s most extreme or works I know and recommend personally as extreme standouts. When I have reviews of my own (which is rare), I link to the pages with those reviews (scroll to the end), but otherwise the extreme features link to the works’ Amazon pages.

Do you belong in the Hardcore Corner? You’ve been naughty, haven’t you? Please let me know! Contact me with the name you use for publishing (etc.), the two extreme works you want featured, instructions on how to get an author photo from you, and engaging answers to these questions:

“Hardcore,” “Extreme,” “Splatterpunk,” etc. What do such words mean to you, and which terms best describe your work? Do you think of your work as part of a larger artistic phenomenon or movement? Why or why not? What’s your motivation, your philosophy, for creating transgressive, violent art?
Without spoiling the story, what’s the sickest, most disturbing thing you’ve put into one of your extreme features? What does it add to the work? How do you feel about being the person who created that bit of disturbing sickness?
Describe your ideal audience and the audience you think you actually have (or will have when the word gets out more). What sorts of people are they? Are the ideal and the actual audiences one and the same? If not, how do they differ? To be a blunt devil’s advocate–what kind of sick fucks want to read the sick shit you create?

I hope to hear from you!