PITCHFORK GOSPEL

 

🕷️ WELCOME TO THE PITCHFORK GOSPEL

Your Survival Guide to Jake Bannerman
By Ash | Horror Ink Blog

You don’t read a Jake Bannerman book.
You survive it.

You crawl through it like a grave you dug yourself. You come out bloodied, stunned, maybe hard, maybe sobbing—and never quite the same. And while that might sound like some dark literary flex, the truth is simpler:

Jake doesn’t write horror. He writes survival.

His books—The Pitchfork Diaries, Stillborn Divine, Sick Cities, Ash’s Sacred Vengeance—are not built to entertain. They’re built to confront. They’re sermons for the damned. Recovery manuals for the already bleeding. Or as he once put it himself: “confessions from the inside of a locked room with no ceiling.”

But if you’re new here—if you're just now peeking past the police tape—you might ask:

“What kind of messed-up literature is this? Who else writes like this?”

Let me show you.

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🩸 IF YOU LIKE THESE…

You just might survive Jake Bannerman:

📚 LITERATURE

• Poppy Z. Brite – “Exquisite Corpse”
  Erotic murder, queer cannibalism, prose that drips with sweat and perfume

• Dennis Cooper – “The Sluts”
  Sex work, snuff rumors, unreliable trauma

• J.G. Ballard – “Crash”
  Car wrecks as sexual ecstasy

• Lingua Ignota (lyrics & libretto)
  Abused Catholic girl rage channeling divine wrath

• Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson
  Junkies. Poets. Saints of self-destruction

• Have A Nice Life – “Deathconsciousness” (liner notes)
  A philosophy thesis buried in lo-fi depression

• Kathy Acker – “Blood and Guts in High School”
  Incest, dreams, and screaming girl guts

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🎧 IF YOUR EARS BLEED HERE… YOU’RE HOME

💿 MUSIC

• Pig Destroyer – “Prowler in the Yard”
  Especially the “Jennifer” intro: filthy, poetic, unforgettable

• Lingua Ignota – “CALIGULA” / “SINNER GET READY”
  Gospel for the abused and vengeful

• Swans – “To Be Kind”
  A slow-motion breakdown with a heartbeat

• Daughters – “You Won’t Get What You Want”
  Panic attacks in sound

• Today is the Day – “Temple of the Morning Star”
  Psychosis wrapped in a whisper

• Have A Nice Life – “Earthmover”
  Funeral-core for the emotionally exiled

• Chelsea Wolfe – “Abyss”
  Gothic decay turned sacred

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⚰️ IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT

It wasn’t meant for you.

But if something in your ribs shifted reading this—
If something in your throat tightened, or your groin stirred, or your scars itched—
You’re exactly who Jake writes for.

Welcome to the church of the unholy.
We don’t ask you to be healed.

We just ask you not to lie about your wounds.

—Ash
Altar girl. Archivist. Witness.