This is it, probably the last hurrah for 'splatterpunk' as a commercial quantity.
Which isn't to say that there aren't plenty of 'extreme horror' anthologies still kicking around out there, but I don't think I've encountered a single one that isn't rubbish.
17 • Introduction (Splatterpunks II) • essay by Paul M. Sammon
21 • Accident d'Amour • (1992) • short story by Wildy Petoud (trans. of Accident d'amour)
28 • Impermanent Mercies • (1991) • short story by Kathe Koja
38 • One Flesh: A Cautionary Tale • (1991) • short story by Robert Devereaux (variant of One Flesh)
50 • Rant • (1990) • short story by Nancy A. Collins
62 • Lacunae • [Kane] • (1986) • short story by Karl Edward Wagner
74 • Heels • (1992) • short story by Lucy Taylor
86 • Brian De Palma: The Movie Brute • (1984) • essay by Martin Amis
98 • I Walk Alone • (1992) • short story by Roberta Lannes
116 • Scape-Goats • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
143 • Cannibal Cats Come Out Tonight • (1988) • short story by Nancy Holder
157 • All Flesh is Clay • (1993) • short story by John J. Ordover
163 • Imprint • (1990) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
168 • Twenty-two and Absolutely Free • novelette by John Piwarski
190 • Hooked on Buzzer • (1988) • short story by Elizabeth Massie
198 • Pig • novelette by Gorman Bechard
223 • Rockin' the Midnight Hour • essay by Anya Martin (variant of "Rockin' The Midnight Hour": Exploring the Rock 'n' Roll/Horror Connection with David Schow, John Skipp and Craig Spector 1991)
238 • Embers • novelette by Brian Hodge
265 • Headturner • short story by Kevin Andrew Murphy and Thomas S. Roche
276 • Nothing But Enemies • (1994) • novella by Debbie Goad
280 • Boxer • (1988) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
285 • Xenophobia • (1990) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
296 • Dripping Crackers • short story by Michael R. Zimmerman [as by Michael Ryan Zimmerman]
315 • Intimates • short story by Melanie Tem
324 • For You, the Living • (1992) • novelette by Wayne Allen Sallee
352 • Calling Dr. Satan: An Interview with Anton Szandor Lavey • (1992) • interview of Anton Szandor LaVey • interview by Jim Goad
375 • Red Shift • short story by Shira Daemon
385 • Within You, Without You • novelette by Paul M. Sammon
407 • Epiphany • short story by Christa Faust
414 • Note on the Splat II Soundtrack • essay by Paul M. Sammon
This is a weird scrapbook of stuff, although it also shows how some of the splatterpunk/new horror stuff had merged into the overall '90s culture of transgression and shock--Jim Goad interviewing Anton LaVey isn't splatterpunk, but something else entirely, more in keeping with the Feral House 'Apocalypse Culture' stuff, I think. One imagines that by Volume III, Sammon would be trying to claim Peter Sotos was splatterpunk!
I checked this out of the library at one point and browsed some of the stories, although not many held my interest that much. I think the Brian Hodge story was good.
Otherwise--the Amis/de Palma interview is tiresome (surprise!), the Wayne Allen Sallee bit is good I think, the Barker story is one of his weaker ones and anyone who was still calling themselves a splatterpunk in 1995 surely had
The Books of Blood already. Notably there are a lot of women represented here (including Roberta "I'm NOT a splatterpunk but I'll let you print a story of mine in both of your anthologies, Paul" Lannes).
