Wrath James White is a badass motherfucker who writes badass things for other badass motherfuckers. Wrath is a J.F. Gonzales Splatterpunk Lifetime Achievement Award winner and a Bram Stoker Award nominated poet.

He is the author of such extreme horror classics as The Resurrectionist (now a major motion picture titled, Come Back to Me), Succulent Prey, If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse, and most recently The Bug Collector, Rabbit Hunt (a racial role reversal of the “redneck psychopaths in the woods” trope), its prequel Emily, as well as more than two dozen other works. He has co-written books with Edward Lee, J.F. Gonzalez, Matt Shaw, and Kristopher Rufty.

We talked about the meaning of splatterpunk and how it differs from extreme horror, how Wrath imbues his characters with humanity despite the tortures they inflict and endure, his move to Thailand, his experience as a competitive fighter, how political correctness impacts the genre, and much, much more. We touch on the relationship between SM and horror and how to write about SM ethically (while not advancing harmful stereotypes, for example).

Find Wrath’s books on Amazon and on his website. Follow him on Substack Wrath James White.

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