Monica J. O’Rourke

Monica J. O’Rourke is a freelance editor/writer who spends her days ignoring her own writing and correcting other people’s grammar. She’s had short fiction published in anthologies and magazines such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1; Past Indiscretions: The Very Best of Splatterpunk Zine; Fangoria; and Horror for Housewives (edited by Edward Lee). She is the author of the novels Poisoning Eros I and II (with Wrath James White), Suffer the Flesh, What Happens in the Darkness, and the collection, In the End, Only Darkness. Her books and stories have been published in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Poland, and Russia. One of these decades, she might actually finish that WIP: the novel.

Monica J. O’Rourke contributed the story “Symmetry” to Extremely Weird Splatter.

O’Rourke’s answers to the “Extremely Weird Splatter Written in Authors’ Guts” interview questions are in the coda.

“To be honest, the only technique I use is to keep writing… and see if it gets under my skin.”

Read L. Andrew Cooper’s interview with Monica J. O’Rourke.

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