This week on Curio, Tom and George are joined by extreme horror and splatterpunk author, Jonathan Butcher. Jonathan is best known for his books What Good Girls Do, Chocolateman, and Motel Styx. Jonathan also recently won the Gross Out contest at Killercon for his short story Last Night's Gig.
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Website: https://jonathanbutcherhorror.bigcartel.com
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00:00:00 Introduction to Jonathan and extreme horror
00:05:55 What is Splatterpunk?
00:10:37 What Good Girls Do
00:14:27 Why on earth have you written this?
00:20:09 The power of morbid curiosity
00:23:11 Does shock value trump good writing?
00:25:03 Extreme horror writer recommendations
00:29:34 The backstory of Chocolateman
00:38:40 What makes a Jonathan Butcher book?
00:42:22 What inspires extreme horror writers?
00:47:00 Research required for extreme horror
00:50:02 The difficulties of writing as a collaboration
00:58:58 The morality of pushing horror to its extreme
01:03:46 Jonathan's Killercon Gross Out winning short story