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Poppy Z Brite


(Melissa Ann Brite)
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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author.

Early in Brite's career, she was best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories. Her trademarks have included using gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions in the works, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events.
 

Genres: Mystery, Horror
 
Series
John Rickey and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs
   Liquor (2004)
   The Value of X (2004)
   Prime (2005)
   Soul Kitchen (2006)
   D*u*c*k (2006)
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Novels
   Lost Souls (1992)
   Drawing Blood (1993)
   Exquisite Corpse (1996)
   Seed of Lost Souls (1999)
   Plastic Jesus (2000)
   Guilty But Insane (2001)
   Triads (2004) (with Christa Faust)
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Collections
   Wormwood (1993)
     aka Swamp Foetus
   His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and other stories (1995)
   Are You Loathsome Tonight? (1998)
     aka The Self-Made Man
   Wrong Things (2001) (with Caitlín R Kiernan)
   The Devil You Know (2003)
   Antediluvian Tales (2007)
   Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz / Are You Loathsome Tonight? (2011)
   Used Stories (2016)
   The Horror Show (2016)
   Doctor Brite (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Crystal Empire (2016)
   Last Wish & The Gulf (2016)
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Anthologies edited
   Love in Vein (1994) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Love in Vein II (1997) (with Martin H Greenberg)
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Series contributed to
Crow
   2. The Lazarus Heart (1998)
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Non fiction show
 
Poppy Z Brite recommends
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The Ecstacy of Agony (2023)
Wrath James White
"Wrath James White has more to say than many of his contemporaries, and says it more eloquently."
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves (2022)
Alex Jennings
"Scary, sweet, lyrical, and real."
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Severed Wings (2020)
Steven-Elliot Altman
"An erotic and lyrical fantasy thriller, aptly set in the city of lost angels."

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Anthologies containing stories by Poppy Z Brite
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The Best of Dark Terrors (2021)
(Dark Terrors)
edited by
Stephen Jones and David A Sutton
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The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 2 (2020)
(Best of Cemetery Dance, book 2)
edited by
Richard Chizmar

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Awards
Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (1992) : The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire
Bram Stoker Best First Novel nominee (1993) : Lost Souls
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1993) : Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1994) : Drawing Blood
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1997) : Exquisite Corpse


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