The theme of this paper is the analysis and understanding of the body in Clive Barker’s splatterpunk fiction and in which way the body and its transformations influence the perception of “the self” and the surrounding world. Since ancient times, people have created tales of horror and terror in order to explore the darker side of nature and to make sense of unknown forces in the world. Tales of darkness have gained significance within the eighteenth and nineteenth century Gothic period of terror with writers such as Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelly or Poe and with time and science development that greatly changed human worldviews, the tales of terror shifted towards those of horror in works of writers such as King, Rice and Barker among others. What is common to these writers is that their works reflect the fears and anxieties of their time periods, which is why modern horror should not be viewed as separate from terror literature, but rather an extension of it. In the works analysed in this paper, it is shown how Barker uses the image of the body, its various transformations and mutilation in order not only to convey the fears and anxieties connected to the condition of being flesh and blood and how individuals change through their encounter with the transformed body but also to celebrate the body and its desires. Moreover, it is important to mention that Barker borrows from the Gothic mode of writing in order to revive past tropes and reinvent them within the context of the body and horror.