Writing
Boatman is also a screenwriter and novelist. He sometimes writes in the splatterpunk horror genre, which is characterized by an extreme gore and violence as well as a wicked sense of humor. In one of his stories, the protagonist rises from the dead to avenge his death and kills an assailant with an eyeball flying out of his socket. In another story, a character is described as "meaner than a Republican with a snake up his dickhole." That same story has the line "the mattress smelled like the septic tanks behind the Mexican abortion clinic at high tide" - a sentence that David J Schow cited as particularly disturbing and poetic. Splatterpunk is a divisive genre which offends as much as it entertains. Joe Lansdale praised his first collection with ""Michael Boatman writes like a visitor from hell. Someone out on short term leave for bad behavior. I love this stuff. He's one of the new, and more than promising, writers making his mark, and a dark and wonderful mark it is." However, one critic stated that his book was "a heinous little collection of short stories that manage to both confuse and disgust."
Many multi-author anthologies feature at least one of his short stories. They include Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror, Until Someone Loses an Eye, Sages and Swords, Badass Horror and Christmas in Hell. He has also been published in Weird Tales, Horror Garage and Red Scream. He introduced Cyber-Pulp Halloween 3.0 which was published by Cyber-pulp Books.
His first collection of short stories, God Laughs When You Die, was published by Dybbuk Press on October 23, 2007. His humorous horror novel, The Revenant Road, was published by Drollerie Press in 2009.
His influences include Joe Lansdale and Edward Lee.
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