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  Lost Souls

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires--Molochai, Twig, and Zillah--follow vampires Nothing and Ann on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Reprint. AB. PW.
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  Drawing Blood

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Trevor McGee returns to confront the past, and finds himself haunted by the same demons that drove his father to insanity. Reprint. K. AB.
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  Exquisite Corpse: A Novel

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  A gritty, dark thriller follows two killers on the loose among the demimonde of New Orleans, where the erotic thrill of murder lures them to the pleasures of the notorious French Quarter. Reprint. 15,000 first printing."
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  Liquor: A Novel

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make a quick buck. When Rickey concocts the idea of opening a restaurant in their alcohol-loving hometown where every dish packs a spirited punch, they know they’re on their way to the bank. With some wheeling and dealing, a slew of great recipes, and a few lucky breaks, Rickey and G-man are soon on their way to... (more)
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  Prime: A Novel

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a local paper not-so-subtly hints that their “silent” backer, celebrity chef Lenny Duveteaux, has ulterior motives. When Lenny is accused of serious criminal activity by eccentric D.A. Placide... (more)
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  Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  A collection of erotic horror stories follows the adventures of solace-seeking lonelyhearts on a North Carolina highway, behind a dusty Georgia carny show, in a Baton Rouge mausoleum, and an alley in Calcutta. Reprint.
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  The Lazarus Heart (Crow Novel Series)

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  The Eternal One At our human limits, when we've gone asfor as flesh and imagination can take us, wemeet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable,he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go alI theway--and beyond. The Lazarus Heart Five, four, three, two ... Jared Poe counts thedays on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversialS&M photographer has... (more)
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  Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  This collection by Poppy Z. Brite, author of "Exquisite Corpse" and "Love in Vein," among others, features anew story, "Monday's Special." Poppy contributed story notes as well as the Preface.
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  Love in Vein II : Eighteen More Tales of Vampiric Erotica

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  Be warned.If you found Love in Vein too disturbingly dark, too exquisitely explicit, too deliciously erotic in the secrets it revealed -- you're going to adore Love in Vein II . Poppy Z. Brite has done it again with a provocative new collection even more dangerously seductive, more boldly erotic than her first. It is not for everyone. But it may be what you need.
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  Wrong Things

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  This short collaborative collection contains an original novella by Caitlin R. Kiernan, an original novella by Poppy Z. Brite, and a brand-new collaborative story by Caitlin and Poppy set in Poppy's fictional stomping grounds of Missing Mile, North Carolina. Wrong Things also features an exclusive afterword by Caitlin, 10 full-page interior illustrations by Richard Kirk.
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  Guilty but Insane

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  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 but Insane. These brief pieces cover a variety of subjects, including decadence, the genre of horror writing, William S. Burroughs and her fantasy of an inspired love... (more)
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  The Value of X

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  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 streets of New Orleans' rundown Lower Ninth Ward. The son of hardworking blue-collar Catholic parents, 16-year-old Gary Stubbs is growing increasingly troubled... (more)
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  D*U*C*K

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  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 Stubbs, are still cooking up a storm at their restaurant, Liquor, and struggling to survive daily adventures in kitchen dysfunction reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain's ... (more)
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  Love in Vein

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  An original collection of twenty stories--by a wide range of powerful authors--celebrates the intimate and seductive fantasies of vampiric erotica.
• Plastic JesusPoppy Z. Brite

  

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  Plastic Jesus

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  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, Liverpool is Leyborough and Lennon and McCartney are, respectively, Seth Grealy and Peyton Masters, creative soulmates whose music takes the world by storm. The twist... (more)
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  Soul Kitchen: A Novel

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  If you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans! Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchen—he’s spent the last ten years in Angola Prison for murdering his boss, a wealthy New Orleans restaurateur, but has recently been... (more)
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  Con Party At Hotel California

  Limited Edition chapbook with a printing run of 802 copies, which was mailed as a premium to those who purchased the book Lost Souls directly from the publisher. It is short (16 pages) and includes two short tales. Cover illustration by Miran Kim.
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  Antediluvian Tales

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  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 chefs Rickey and G-Man, and in their descriptions of local landmarks and daily rituals of the natives, one catches the author's unabashed affection for the Big Easy. Two... (more)
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  Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica

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  Drawing Blood Uk

  by Poppy Z. Brite

  Zach is a computer hacker who looks like Edward Scissorhands, and Trevor, a comics artist, is traumatized by his father's murder of his mother and brother 20 years previously. Both on the run from their pasts, they end up as lovers in the town of Missing Mile. By the author of "Lost Skulls".