Truly, if I had any beef, it's perhaps that personal taste perhaps feels as though it got in the way of REALLY covering all the relevant titles and creators seemingly not too big of a fan of good old fashioned monsters, nor the aforementioned late 80's to early 90's cycle of horror beyond the "elevated" standards. I appreciated the shout-out to Silver Screen from yourself, however. A dismissive section on The Kill Riff hardly illuminates how, in short story form, Schow was probably the closest "Splat" ever got to having a Richard Matheson. One paragraph on Lansdale, hardly denoting what he really brought to the table seemed like a missed opportunity.
Perhaps an intro detailing the thought process behind the inclusions would've made it a bit clearer. Covering major titles from that era in a kind of passive aggressive manner seems a bit jarring to me.
I do feel like the "Splatterpunk" section was written in a kind of despairing tone that didn't really communicate why THIS is too much and why something like The Little People gets a pass as bizarre entertainment. Maybe Grady threw in one too many Whitney Houston jokes?
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