He is also the author of short story collections including Wormwood.Dead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear His novels include Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Blood, and Lost Souls. Brite is the author of numerous titles and short stories, specializing in horror, dark comedy, and all things thrilling. She is the only writer I know who could write a guidebook to Hell that would make me want to go there. Brites distinction to have understood immediately that real horror (unlike the make-believe variety which lumbers brainlessly through so many books) has an intimate connection to the most profound emotions, those evoked by an experience of the sacred. Peter Straub Author of The Hellfire Club As perfectly named as its author, Exquisite Corpse treats the dead human body like a communion wafer. Brites Exquisite Corpse has an intelligence, sweep, nerve, knowledge, and deeply unsettling erotic power that make most other so-called transgressive novels du jour seem like romance novels in a grouchy mood. Review Quotes Dennis Cooper Author of Frisk, Wrong, and Try Poppy Z. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane be one. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization.
Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of Londons Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadnt previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his art to new heights. To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. Book Synopsis From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a guidebook to hell. Brite recreates the voices and visions of the souls darkest corners, and draws readers into a labyrinth of forbidden emotions and irresistible passions. About the Book In this tale of two killers on the loose in the demimonde of New Orleans French Quarter, daring young writer Poppy Z.
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