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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)
   Poppy Z. Brite - Selected Stories (2016)
   Used Stories (2016)
   The Horror Show (2016)
   Doctor Brite (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Would You? (2000)
   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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Little Book Series II
   A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (2021)
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Poppy Z Brite
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The Junk Merchants 2 (2024)
A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs
(Junk Merchants, book 2)
edited by
Alex S Johnson
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Elemental Forces (2024)
(ABC of Horror, book 5)
edited by
Mark Morris

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Award nominations
2000 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Are You Loathsome Tonight?
1999 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Are You Loathsome Tonight?
1996 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Exquisite Corpse
1994 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Drawing Blood
1994 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Wormwood
1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
1993 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Lost Souls
1992 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : Lost Souls
1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire


Poppy Z Brite recommends
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The Drowning House (2024)
Cherie Priest
"Cherie Priest can be counted on to tell a bang-up tale with engaging characters and exciting twists. She is one of our most underrated horror authors."
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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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