First published back in August of 2021, issue eleven of ‘Splatterpunk Zine’ was compiled and edited by Jack Bantry offering up another blood bucket full of A5 black & white pages, packed with more stories, articles, reviews and interviews of uncompromisingly violent horror and gore. The zine was made available for purchase via Bantry’s ‘Splatterpunk Zine’ website.

Editorial – 1 Page
Editor and Splatterpunk aficionado, Jack Bantry, opens the zine with a plea for others to start their own chapbook. In his call to arms, Bantry sets out how easy it is to do, as well as the benefits and joy publishing a DIY zine brings.

Interview – Chandler Morrison – 3 Pages
Jack Bantry interviews US author Chandler Morrison, asking about what inspires him to write extreme stuff, the positive reaction ‘Dead Inside’ (2020) received, and how he as a person might be perceived by others after they’ve read his disturbing work. Bantry goes on to ask Morrison about Daniella Batsheva’s cover art, what Chandler thinks the zine’s readers will make of his short story ‘She Dotted Her i’s With Little Hearts’, his current work in progress, why he chose to write a social drama for his forthcoming offering, and the potential reception he is expecting. Bantry ends the interview asking if Morrison feels he has any boundaries he wouldn’t cross, what he thinks extreme horror can offer its audience, when he knew he’d become a writer, the types of books he reads, and finally about his love for ‘Sex And The City’.

Interview – Janine Pipe – 3 Pages
Bantry sets about his second interview in the zine, asking UK horror author Janine Pipe about what got her into horror, and more specifically, horror fiction. Bantry then moves onto asking about what inspired her to write extreme horror fiction, what she loves about Glenn Rolfe’s work, her life outside of horror, and a little about her recent collection ‘Twisted: Tainted Tales’ (2021). To finish the interview off, Bantry asks about Pipe’s love of the 1980’s, her involvement with Kandisha Press, her plans for the rest of the year, and finally about the ‘Slash-Her’ (2022) anthology she was editing with Jill Girardi.

A Subservient Breed – Tom Over – 6 Pages
It all happened so fast. The baboon population had been a feature of this mountainous region of Cape Town for as long as the locals could remember, although they’d never experienced a problem with them. Then all of a sudden, the baboon’s turned on the people of Tokai. A savage onslaught unleashed upon everyone in the vicinity. As the security guard for the Flora-Nova Foundation, Jared reacted fast to the explosive situation, dragging everyone into the foyer of the nearby laboratories. There the seven survivors from the nearby vicinity cowered from the ferocious baboons. But what had turned the primates upon them? After all these years, why would they suddenly attack the people of Tokai?...

Every good horror reader loves a ‘Creatures vs Mankind’ story. Here we have a brutal sci-fi horror, somewhere between Iain Rob Wright’s ‘Animal Kingdom’ (2011) and Pierre Boulle’s ‘Planet Of The Apes’ (1963). There’s a lot that happens within the short story, in a fast and furious motion of frenzied action. A ‘Jurassic Park’ (1990) style setting, replacing velociraptors with baboons, stalking the hapless survivors. The ending is about as far removed from what I was expecting as they come. A wildly over-the-top sci-fi finale, that brings it all to a head-scratchingly sudden conclusion. A damn entertaining story though!

The story includes a full-page illustration by Dan Henk.



She Dotted Her i’s With Little Hearts – Chandler Morrison – 5 Pages
About a year ago the planet had devolved into a hellscape of zombie-apocalypse proportions. Ever since the dead became undead, the lives of the man and his small family unit had been pretty uneventful. When things started to go bad, they’d relocated to his summer house in Northern California. Just him, his wife and their daughter, living in relative seclusion and thankful safety. Mere survival had kept his mind occupied the majority of the time. But when his daughter got her stupid millennial-ass killed, he saw an opportunity he just couldn’t pass up on. Seeing her reanminated corpse in just her bra and panties got him thinking. Oh yes, he was finally gonna do what he’d been wanting to do for so, so long…

Hoooolllly shit!!! This one’s an insane read alright. Absolutely time to separate the weak from the chaff, I guess. You’ve probably read that synopsis and gone “is he talking about…you know…?”. Well, yes, my deviant little friends, that’s exactly what the plot of this delightful little romantic romp is all about. And just to put to bed any further thoughts of surely not?!...I give you the opening line to the short story: “I’ve always wanted to fuck my daughter.” Happy?! So, what of the story though?! Well, it’s quite simply an incredibly compelling short. The first-person narration from the father is hilarious. The self-admissions. The brutal redneck honesty. Man, it’s insane!

Unsurprisingly, the whole thing has a Richard Laymon vibe to the unpretentious, unpadded, tell-it-as-it-is delivery. The language is colourful but hilariously rich with banter throughout. Honestly, despite the draw-dropping plot (yep, that one about banging yer undead daughter), and despite the outrageously grisly scenes (if oculophilia’s your thing, then strap yourself in because this one’s about to get your rocks off), the rest of the short might otherwise have been classed as a black comedy. Although it would be the blackest of black. Even though the short had me instantly squirming in my seat, and constantly looking over my shoulder, damn is it an engaging and hilarious read. In fact, probably one of the best shorts I’ve read all year!

The story includes a full-page illustration by Jim Agpalza.



One In The Hand – Janine Pipe – 4 Pages
From early on he discovered his sexual attraction to blood and gore. A happy accident in the shower eventually led him to embracing his full-blown fetish. He couldn’t help it. But now, as a young adult, only the sight, smell and taste of blood could finish him off. Often this ended up being with the carcass of some dead animal. Or roadkill. That was until the day of his big discovery. The day all his wildest fantasies came true…

Jeez are these stories getting warped as fuck! Coming off the back of Chandler Morrison’s redneck-apocalypse, we have this charming ode to haematophilia. Well, I say that, but UK author Janine Pipe has gone a tad further than a quick stiffy at the drop of the red stuff. If you’re imaging a reworking of Romero’s ‘Martin’ (1977), then you’re about a thousand miles away from destination fucked-up-ville where this story resides. This after all, is a submission to ‘Splatterpunk Zine’. So, expect the absolute worst (obviously in a good way). Damn, does this short deliver the goods.

As a final point, considering the author is of the opposite sex to the anti-hero of the piece, damn has she written the lad’s wild passage to becoming sexually active well! She nails the vibe, the thoughts, the exploration, and the general coming-of-age to an absolute tee. Even with his pathway veering insanely off the normal route, it’s still spoken with an entirely believable voice. Hats off to you on that one.

The story includes a full-page illustration by Robert Elrod.



The Hunger – Aron Beauregard – 9 Pages
Buster Rye was a hermit. Born with a physical strangeness about him, along with an infantile mentality, his peculiar features repulsed anyone who looked his way, especially the opposite sex. He wasn’t equipped with the capacity to understand why they hated him; he just knew they did. Buster lived in an old shack out in the middle of nowhere. No one visited. No one knew he was there. Ostracised for being a thief and pickpocket. But with a storm on its way, Buster needed food to see him through the worst of it. He needed ammunition for his rifle to go hunting with. Something he could pinch from old Flint Oakly’s farm. Although, as it turns out, this simple theft will lead to all sorts of problems. Starting with the cruel murder of old man Oakly’s fifteen-year-old niece…

The last story in the zine is another dark, twisted and decidedly gory offering. US author Aron Beauregard delivers a rural tale of a hermit who’s incapable of really understanding the evil of his actions. Which makes him that much more terrifying. The plot starts off with a full-blown Guy N Smith vibe, which soon slips into this particular issue of Splatterpunk Zine’s running theme – a spot of necrophilia. After this, Beauregard takes the story down another path, with a finale somewhere between a fucked-up reimagining of ‘The Revenant’ (2015) and the main premise from ‘127 Hours’ (2010). Expect gratuitous gore served up on a hefty slab of comeuppance. Yeah, it’s all fun and games in the world of extreme horror. And Beauregard can lay down the visceral nastiness like the best of ‘em.

The story includes a full-page illustration by Denis Privezentsev.



Book Reviews – 2 Pages
Slaughter Box – Carver Pike
You Will Be Consumed – Nikolas P Robinson
The Night Stockers – Kristopher Triana and Ryan Harding
Yellow – Aron Beauregard
The End Of The World – Dan Henk