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Poppy Z. Brite

Author of Lost Souls

69+ Works 12,457 Members 207 Reviews 123 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the names: Brite P, Poppy Brite, Brite Poppy, Poppy Bright, Poppy Z. Brite, Poppy Z. Brite, poppy brite ed., Poppy Z. Brite Ed., ed. poppy z. brite, Editor-Poppy Z. Brite, Брайт Поппи, Поппи Брайт, Poppy Z. - Editor Brite, edited by Poppy Z. Brite, Edited by Poppy Z. Brite

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Series

Works by Poppy Z. Brite

Lost Souls (1992) 2,377 copies
Exquisite Corpse (1996) 1,774 copies
Drawing Blood (1993) 1,615 copies
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories (1993) 1,048 copies
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica (1994) — Editor — 774 copies
Liquor (2004) 681 copies
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) 594 copies
Love in Vein II : Eighteen More Tales of Vampiric Erotica (1997) — Editor — 490 copies
Prime (2005) 451 copies
The Crow: The Lazarus Heart (1998) 387 copies
Soul Kitchen (2006) 383 copies
Courtney Love (1997) 311 copies
The Devil You Know (2003) 229 copies
The Value of X (2002) 225 copies
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (1995) 200 copies
Plastic Jesus (2000) 136 copies
Antediluvian Tales (2007) 110 copies
D*U*C*K (2006) 109 copies
Wrong Things (1800) 93 copies
Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans (2009) 91 copies
Triads (2004) 64 copies
Seed of Lost Souls (1999) 57 copies
Guilty but Insane (2001) 55 copies
The Feast of St. Rosalie (2003) 31 copies
The Crow: A Murder of Crows (1998) — Author — 17 copies
Con Party at Hotel California (2002) 14 copies
The H.O.G. Syndrome (2007) 12 copies
A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (2015) 11 copies
Stay Awake 10 copies
Used Stories (2004) — Author — 9 copies
Pansu (2001) 7 copies
Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz {and} Are You Loathsome Tonight? (2011) 6 copies
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood [short story] 6 copies
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves [short story] 6 copies
Coupable (2002) 5 copies
Crown of Thorns 4 copies
The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire [novelette] 4 copies
A Taste of Blood and Altars 4 copies
System Freeze 4 copies
Last Wish & The Gulf (2016) 3 copies
Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (2016) 3 copies
R.I.P Everything is Permitted 3 copies
The Devil of Delery Street 3 copies
Would You? (2000) 3 copies
How To Get Ahead in New York [short fiction] 3 copies
The Sixth Sentinel [short fiction] 3 copies
Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz (2014) 3 copies
The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone 2 copies
Eros Vampire 2 (1999) 2 copies
Monday's Special (1998) 2 copies
Entertaining Mr. Orton 2 copies
O' Death Where is Thy Spatula? 2 copies
The Amulet 2 copies
Poppy Z. Brite - Selected Stories (2016) 2 copies
Doctor Brite: All stories starring the character Dr. Brite, coroner in New Orleans. 1 copy
COLPEVOLE, MA PAZZA: Diario Minimo di una Scrittrice Dark 1 copy
Il Cimitero dei Vivi (Italian Edition) (2016) 1 copy
Cemetery Dance Select: Poppy Z. Brite 1 copy
Poppy Z. Brite 1 copy
Pin Money 1 copy
Wandering the Borderlands 1 copy
Burn Baby Burn 1 copy
The Ocean 1 copy
America 1 copy
Self-made Man [short story] 1 copy
Are You Loathsome Tonight? [short story] 1 copy
Homewrecker 1 copy
Vine of the Soul 1 copy
Arise 1 copy
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Associated Works

The Living Dead (2008) — Contributor — 900 copies
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 796 copies
Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror! (2003) — Contributor — 703 copies
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004) — Contributor — 663 copies
Cthulhu 2000 (1995) — Contributor — 456 copies
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (2001) — Contributor — 282 copies
Hellboy: Odd Jobs (2003) — Contributor — 261 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 260 copies
The Children of Cthulhu (2002) — Contributor — 257 copies
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (2000) — Contributor — 257 copies
Borderlands 1 (1990) — Contributor — 229 copies
Revelations (1997) — Contributor — 209 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contributor — 209 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (1992) — Contributor — 202 copies
Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath (2000) — Contributor — 175 copies
Borderlands 3 (1992) — Contributor — 150 copies
My Favorite Horror Story (2007) — Introduction — 136 copies
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge (2005) — Contributor — 134 copies
Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (1954) — Contributor — 131 copies
Nerve: Literate Smut (1998) — Contributor — 126 copies
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) — Contributor — 126 copies
Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge (1993) — Contributor — 118 copies
Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? (1997) — Contributor — 103 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002) — Contributor — 102 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (2005) — Contributor — 99 copies
The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 2 (2001) — Contributor — 98 copies
Disco 2000 (1998) — Contributor — 97 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contributor — 91 copies
Best New Horror 2 (1991) — Contributor — 77 copies
The Mammoth Book of New Erotica (1998) — Contributor — 76 copies
Louisiana Breakdown (2003) — Foreword, some editions — 74 copies
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (2002) — Contributor — 72 copies
Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality (1996) — Contributor — 59 copies
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (2008) — Author — 57 copies
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contributor — 53 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 08 (1997) — Contributor — 52 copies
Queer Fear 2: Gay Horror Fiction (2002) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2 (2011) — Contributor — 46 copies
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contributor — 45 copies
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Contributor — 40 copies
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (2012) — Contributor — 40 copies
New Orleans Noir 2: The Classics (2016) — Contributor — 37 copies
Dark Terrors 3 (1997) — Contributor — 34 copies
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies
Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales For Men (1996) — Contributor — 32 copies
Dark Terrors 4 (1998) — Contributor — 31 copies
Smoke and Mirrors: Screenplays, Teleplays, Stage Plays, Comic Scripts & Treatments (2014) — Contributor — 24 copies
Desire Burn: Women's Stories from the Dark Side of Passion (1995) — Contributor — 24 copies
Women of Darkness II: More Original Horror and Dark Fantasy by Contemporary Women Writers (Tor Horror) (1990) — Contributor — 23 copies
Louisiana Vampires (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies
Grave Passions (1997) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contributor — 20 copies
Crossing the Border (1998) — Contributor — 20 copies
Masques V (2006) — Contributor — 19 copies
Gauntlet: Media Manipulation, No 4 (1993) — Contributor — 15 copies
Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) — Contributor — 14 copies
Detours (2015) — Author — 14 copies
Noirotica: An Anthology of Erotic Crime Stories (1996) — Contributor — 14 copies
South From Midnight (1994) — Contributor — 13 copies
Dead End: City Limits : An Anthology of Urban Fear (1991) — Contributor — 12 copies
Damned Nation (2006) — Contributor — 11 copies
Embraces: Dark Erotica (2000) — Contributor — 11 copies
Backstage Passes: An Anthology of Rock & Roll Erotica from the Pages of Blue Blood Magazine (1996) — Contributor — 11 copies
Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J. K. Potter (2002) — Contributor — 10 copies
Imagination Fully Dilated (Anthology) (1998) — Contributor — 9 copies
Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language (1996) — Contributor — 9 copies
Sex Macabre (1996) — Contributor — 5 copies
Imagination Fully Dilated - Volume II (2000) — Contributor — 4 copies
Keep Out the Night (2002) — Contributor — 4 copies
Fear of the Unknown (2005) — Contributor — 3 copies
Scaremongers (1997) — Contributor — 2 copies
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #3 (Winter 2006) (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies
Cemetery Dance Issue 13 (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy
Ten Tales (1994) — Introduction — 1 copy

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Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. CRINGE.
 
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CozmicDotCom | 42 other reviews | Nov 22, 2023 |
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
This book is so ridiculous. Bland characters, bad dialogue, the plot doesn’t even get good until the halfway point. Brite was clearly inspired by Dahmer. Yes, parts of the book were gross but I felt Brite strove so hard to be edgy and ended up overshooting and became silly. Also, how many times did we need to be reminded of Tran’s “oriental eyes” or Asian androgyny?
 
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Lairien | 42 other reviews | Jul 26, 2023 |
Exquisite Corpse: A Novel by Poppy Z. Brite
Listened to the audiobook 7 years later -

I loved this book when I was younger but as I grow older and less desensitized to violence it feels like... a lot. Mr. Brite is my transsexual Dennis Cooper, William S. Burroughs and Irvine Welsh all wrapped in one and I love him for it.
 
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fleshed | 42 other reviews | Jul 16, 2023 |
Drawing Blood: A Novel by Poppy Z. Brite
I wish this book was called BIRDLAND and not "drawing blood". I avoided this book for over two years because I thought it was a vampire novel.

It isn't.

Is IS a really satisfying gay horror with lots of gore and sex and all the things I want in a trash novel.
 
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fleshed | 26 other reviews | Jul 16, 2023 |
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The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Lambda Literary Award
World Fantasy Award
Bram Stoker Award
Gaylactic Spectrum Award
International Horror Guild Award
IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award
Otherwise Award
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List
ISFDB Top 100 Novels - Critical List
Unbound Worlds 100 Best Horror Books of All-Time
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
100 Best Horror Books of All Time
NPR 100 Best Horror Novels and Stories
ISFDB Top 100 Novels - Balanced List
Barnes and Noble 25 Most Terrifying Horror Books Ever
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
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Statistics

Works
69
Also by
74
Members
12,457
Popularity
#1,881
Rating
3.8
Reviews
207
ISBNs
136
Languages
8
Favorited
123
Touchstones
167

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