Richard T. Chizmar, Editor, Nancy A. Collins, Author, Poppy Z. Brite, Author White Wolf Games Studio $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56504-919-2
Worried that this collection of ""ecological horror stories"" might be didactic, politically correct and just plain boring? Fear not. After you read 10 pages, the anthology is hard to put down. Whether telling the story of a future plague, of a...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author . Subterranean $35 (200p) ISBN 978-1-931081-67-2
New Orleans native Brite has a number of horror novels to her credit and is a minor cult figure in goth kid circles (she is also the author of Courtney Love: The Real Story). Her latest novel is a rose-tinted gay coming-of-age story set on the mean...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author . Subterranean $40 (198p) ISBN 978-1-931081-72-6
Once both cult-worshipped and mainstream-reviled for her edgy investigations into supernatural and human horror, Brite (Lost Souls) is now more concerned with the more-or-less ordinary side of life and her home turf of New Orleans, as shown in her...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author . Three Rivers $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5007-9
As much a love letter to the Big Easy as it is to the demanding (and sometimes debauched) lifestyle of a chef, horror maven Brite's (Lost Souls
) first foray into the trendy genre of foodie lit is a winsome entrée. New Orleans natives and...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author . Three Rivers $13.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-307-23765-1
Chefs (and lovers) John Rickey and Gary "G-man" Stubbs (first appearing in Liquor
and Prime
) are once again involved in drama and suspense at their trendy eatery, Liquor. Chef Milford Goodman, an old friend of Rickey's, shows up after...
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The ghosts of pre-Katrina New Orleans haunt Brite's latest culinary caper (after Soul Kitchen
) in the form of great meals, good times and the carefree spirit that gave the Big Easy its nickname. Hardscrabble chef John Rickey and his lover, G-Man
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author . Subterranean $25 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59606-116-3
The seven stories in this slim collection from Brite (Soul Kitchen
) form a poignant requiem for pre-Katrina New Orleans, which serves as the setting for all of them. Most are brief sketches featuring characters on the periphery of her tales of...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-82254-9
Blood-soaked sheets, cannibalism, rotting, half-dissected corpses: this gruesome psychological horror novel has all the grue a reader might--or might not--want. Brite (Drawing Blood, 1993), the reigning queen of Generation-X splatterpunks, pulls out
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author Delacorte Press $18 (359p) ISBN 978-0-385-30875-5
Launching the Abyss imprint for Delacorte, this stylishly written, daringly provocative first novel plays on the appeal of vampires as romantic antiheroes. Three bloodsuckers who might pass for rock stars roll into New Orleans for Mardi Gras and...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-385-30895-3
Brite ( Lost Souls ) comes into her own in this second novel that should establish her as not only an adept in the horror genre, but also as a singularly talented chronicler of her generation. Five-year-old Trevor McGee wakes one morning to find...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author Subterranean Press $20 (105p) ISBN 978-1-892284-73-0
Brite trades the modern gothic gloom that has chilled most of her fiction to date (Lost Souls; Exquisite Corpse; etc.) for sunny '60s nostalgia in this warm but slight roman clef celebrating the Beatles. In her version, the fab four are the Kydds,
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author Subterranean Press $40 (185p) ISBN 978-1-892284-89-1
Poppy Z. Brite is nothing if not wacky and witty. Best known as the author of four novels (Lost Souls; Drawing Blood, etc.), she again proves her skill for provocative, meditative writing in her current collection of short nonfiction essays, Guilty...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author, Caitlin R Kiernan, Joint Author . Subterranean $35 (150p) ISBN 978-1-931081-25-2
The analysis of pain reverberates in this brief but powerful collaborative venture between popular horror writers Brite (Are You Loathsome Tonight?) and Kiernan (Silk). Their outstanding joint short story, "The Rest of the Wrong Thing,"...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author, Christa Faust, Author, Miran Kim, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (200p) ISBN 978-1-931081-40-5
Brite (Lost Souls
) and Faust (Control Freak
) combine tragedy, history, a touch of the supernatural, a bit of soap opera and, finally, hope in a surprisingly tender, if violent and sexually explicit trio of gracefully written, interwoven tales. In...
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Poppy Z. Brite, Author, J. K. Potter, Illustrator, Popy Z. Brite, Author Gauntlet Press $50 (193p) ISBN 978-1-887368-16-2
Like the aging Elvis who succumbs to self-destructive indulgences in the title tale, the 12 stories in this collection of transgressive fictions are adrift in a sea of excess. Cannibal zombies, sentient maggots and professional sexual submissives...
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