Wormwood : a collection of short stories / Poppy Z. Brite.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Dell, [1996], c1994.Description: xxvii, 225 p. ; 18 cmISBN: - 0440217989 (pbk.)
- 9780440217985 (pbk.)
- Swamp foetus
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Brite Poppy | Available | 33111007615806 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison
In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge, or in an alley in Calcutta. . . Here wanderers come to rest, the lost and lonely press their bodies up against each other, the heat rises, flesh yields, bones are bared, blood spills. This is the landscape of today's most brilliant young horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite.
Now, in a collection that sings like cutting edge rock 'n' roll and shows the deft touch of a master storyteller, Poppy Z. Brite weaves her unique spell of the sensual, the frightening, and the forbidden. . .
"Every page of Brite's work stresses the beautiful and heartbreaking strangeness of the world."-- Fangoria
"Formerly titled Swamp foetus."
Angels -- A Georgia story -- His mouth will taste of wormwood -- Optional music for voice and piano -- Xenophobia -- The sixth sentinel -- Missing -- Footprints in the water -- How to get ahead in New York -- Calcutta, lord of nerves -- The elder -- The ash of memory, the dust of desire.