Poppy Z. Brite
Exquisite Corpse Swamp Foetus About the Author Bibliography
Poppy Z. Brite
Exquisite Corpse
Swamp Foetus
About the Author
Bibliography
Exquisite Corpse
Orion - Millennium (0752802062) £16.99
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Imagine meeting Nilsen and Dahmer in a bar, being invited home for coffee....
From horror's hottest name comes a novel more terrifying than Silence of the Lambs,
more erotic than Perfume...
Andrew Compton, convicted serial killer, leaves his prison cell a dead man and rises again
to build a new life. His journey takes him to New Orleans' French Quarter - to the
decadent bars and frivolous boys that haunt the luscious dark corners of a town brought up
on voodoo and the dark arts. Anticipating a willing victim, Andrew finds an equal,
something he never expected even in his wildest dreams.
Jay Byrne is the scion of an old, old family - bored by his heritage and dismissive of
responsibility he hunts the night alone for companiouns who won't be missed. He has
moments of pleasure, recaptured from time to time by lovingly attending to his macabre
souvenirs. But nothing lasts forever....
Together, Jay and Andrew find a new and tremulous joy, another way of being. Together they
share dangerous desires and an extraordianry love.
"Treats the human body like a Communion wafer.... a guidebook to Hell" Peter
Straub
Praise for Poppy Z. Brite
"One of the smoothest horror writers around" Sunday Times
"Undeinably and hugely talented" Locus
"A compulsive fusion of horror, sex and comic-book" Birmingham Post
"A high energy read ... unquestionably horrifying" Independent on Sunday
"Magnificent... Brite shows that she is one of the few writers eschewing
repetitive genre formulas by tapping into the troubled spirit of the age." The
List
Swamp Foetus
In the brightly decadent nightscape of New Orleans, strange figures stalk the
fringes of existence, demanding sacrifice and blood. In backwoods rural Georgia, flesh
stirs among the overgrown graveyards. And in the human swamp of Calcutta, the souls of the
undead walk among the living ... Poppy Z. Brite is back to haunt us with twelve new tales
of bizarre and seductive terror.
From America's fastest rising horror star- author of Drawing Blood and Lost
Souls - Swamp Foetus is a trip to the black heart of longing ... to
the darkest regions of desire ...
`Brite's vision is disturbingly dark deliciously erotic, sweetly savage uniquely her
own ... this young writer cakes us to places few will have the courage to visit and none
would tour alone' Dan Simmons
`One of today's best young horror writers' Observer
`Poppy Z. Brite writes ... as if an alternate-world Lovecraft were a practising
libertine ... living in New Orleans and writing lushly decadent Southern Gothics' Edward
Bryant
Poppy Z. Brite was
born in 1967 in New Orleans. She has since lived all over the American South, but in 1993
she returned to her hometown for good. She has worked as a gourmet candymaker, mouse
caretaker, artist's model and exotic dancer. Her first two novels, Lost Souls
and Drawing Blood, were both nominated for the Lambda Literary Award,
while her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. She has been accalimed by
fans of horror fiction and the mainstream alike, gaining accolades and awards for her
first two novels, including the Bram Stoker Award for Best First novel in
1992. She has also compiled an anthology of erotic horror stories, Love in Vein
and a collection of her own short fiction, Swamp Foetus. Poppy
Z. Brite lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans..
Among her interests are Asian culture, food and travel, the Church of the Subgenius, the
music of Tom Waits and numerous subcultures including Goth and cyber. She also appears in
the erotic art film John Five, directed by Jim Herbert, the video director for the band
REM.