Editing Splatterpunk (section)

{{Short description|Movement within horror fiction}}

'''Splatterpunk''' is a movement within [[horror fiction]] originating in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, [[Counterculture|countercultural]] alignment<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/books/the-splatterpunk-trend-and-welcome-to-it.html|title=The Splatterpunk Trend, and Welcome to It |last=Tucker|first=Ken |date=1991-03-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-12-28 |language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and "hyperintensive horror with no limits."<ref>{{cite web |author=Carroll, David|title=Splatterpunk |date=1995 |work=Tabula Rasa #6 |url=http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Horror/Splatterpunk.html |access-date=2008-10-10 }}</ref><ref name="SP">{{cite web|url=http://www.readersadvice.com/readadv/000407.html|title=000407 - Splatterpunk|website=www.readersadvice.com|access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="gw">"Schow, David J." by [[Gary Westfahl]] in [[David Pringle]], ''St. James guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers''. London : St. James Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-1-55862-206-7}} (pp. 516–517. ).</ref> The term was coined in 1986 by [[David J. Schow]] at the Twelfth [[World Fantasy Convention]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story".<ref name="tuckernyt">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6D8143EF937A15750C0A967958260|title=The Splatterpunk Trend, And Welcome to It |last=Tucker|first=Ken|work=The New York Times|access-date=2008-09-02 | date=1991-03-24}}</ref> Splatterpunk has been defined as a "literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature."<ref>Warren Clements, "A quick course in Euro-surgery". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' September 28, 1996.</ref>