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Poppy Z Brite

(Melissa Ann Brite)

(1967 - )

About Poppy Z Brite

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.

Novels

Lost Souls (1992)
Drawing Blood (1993)
Exquisite Corpse (1995)
Seed of Lost Souls: The Complete Story (1999)
Plastic Jesus (2000)
Guilty But Insane (2001)
The Value of X (2003)
Liquor (2004)
Triads (2004) (with Christa Faust)
Prime (2005)
Soul Kitchen (2006)
D*u*c*k (2007)

Collections

Swamp Foetus (1993)
aka Wormwood
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)

Series contributed to

Crow
2. The Lazarus Heart (1998)

Anthologies edited

Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica (1994) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Love in Vein II (1996) (with Martin H Greenberg)

Non fiction

Courtney Love: The Real Story (1997)

Anthologies containing stories by Poppy Z Brite

Best of the Horror Show: An Adventure in Terror (1987)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
Dead End - City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
Best New Horror 4 (1993)
Borderlands 3 (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
The Best New Horror 5 (1994)
Dark Destiny (1994)
The Earth Strikes Back (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
Desire Burn: Women's Stories From the Dark Side of Passion (1995)
Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Sex Macabre (1996)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight (1997)
Millennium (1997)
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
Disco 2000 (1998)
The Mammoth Book of New Erotica (1998)
Scaremongers (1998)

Short stories

	Missing (1986)
	Optional Music for Voice and Piano (1986)
	Angels (1987)
	The Elder (1987)
	A Georgia Story (1987)
	Footprints in the Water (1990)
	His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood (1990)
	Xenophobia (1990)
	The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire (1991)		Bram Stoker (nominee)
	Calcutta, Lord of Nerves (1992)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	How to Get Ahead In New York (1992)
	The Sixth Sentinel (1993)
	Saved (1994) (with Christa Faust)
	Toxic Wastrels (1994)
	Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz (1995)
	Entertaining Mr Orton (1997)
	Self-Made Man (1997)
	Triads (1997) (with Christa Faust)
	Enough Rope (1998)
	Vine of the Soul (1998)

Awards

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

Links to other websites

www.poppyzbrite.com

Poppy Z Brite recommends

Death's Door (1992) Ron Wolfe and John Wooley "...a vastly entertaining, intelligent book with a lot of heart."	Bloodlines (1994) J N Williamson "J. N. Williamson is a horror classic."	Polymorph (1997) Scott Westerfeld "Though provoking and a ripping good read ... I devoured Polymorph in one sitting."
Merlin's Gift (1997) Ian McDowell "Ian McDowell is one of the best authors working in dark fantasy."	Affinity (2001) J N Williamson "J. N. Williamson is a horror classic."	Caliban and Other Tales (2002) Robert Devereaux "I wish I could hope to ever attain one-thousandth the perversity of Robert Devereaux's least toenail clipping."
The Five of Cups (2003) Caitlín R Kiernan " If you have no appetite for bland, 'likable' characters -- if the suburban protagonists of countless paperback horror novels reflect none of your experiences or desires -- if you want to crawl inside the heads of predators and savor the dark excesses there -- in short, if you still long for the awe inspired by a tale larger and stranger than the sum of its parts on the page, then you will treasure the work of Caitlin R. Kiernan. She writes from a place you and I cannot imagine. The fact that she allows you to experience this place through fiction does not mean she will compromise to suit your tastes or coddle your fears."	Crawlers (2003) John Shirley "With his electric intensity... Shirley is one of the most original voices in fiction today."	The Losers' Club (2005) Richard Perez "I couldn't put it down. It's a brave book with a great deal of heart."
Bloodangel (2005) Justine Musk "Justine Musk is a talented, vivid writer and a voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."	November Mourns (2005) Tom Piccirilli "Brilliant and deeply unsettling."

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