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