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Courtney Love: The Real Story


The Crow: The Lazarus Heart

The Eternal One.... At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond

The Lazarus Heart

Five, four, three, two...Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversial S&M photographer has been condemed to die for killing his lover. He dosen't know who did it. Only that he didn't.

Can he clear his name and find the real killer in time?

No. For this is no ordinary thriller. We are in the dark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel the cold shudder of Death; must hear the beating of black wings; must prowl the shadowy goth netherworld of New Orleans, to prove he was no killer when he died.

And find out what kind of killer he has become.


Exquisite Corpse

Blood-soaked sheets, cannibalism, rotting, half-dissected corpses: this gruesome psychological horror novel has all the grue a reader might -- or might not -- want. Brite (DRAWING BLOOD, 1993), the reigning queen of Generation-X splatterpunks, pulls out the stops in this ghastly tale of two serial killers who find true love over the body of a murdered and mutilated boy in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans. Londoner Andrew Compton, imprisoned for the necrophiliac slayings of 23 young men, escapes from prison by (rather unbelievably) faking his own death and killing the coroners gathered to autopsy his body. Fleeing to Louisiana, he hooks up with Jay Byrne, slacker scion of a wealthy old family, whose murders are even more fiendish than Compton's own. Brite is a highly competent stylist with a knack for depicting convincing, if monstrous, characters. Her plot development rests too heavily on coincidence, however, and on an excess of details drawn from the life of real-world serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Though Brite shifts points of view throughout, she always returns to Compton's first person. This technique gives the narrative rhythm and emotional force but also seems aimed toward intimating the reader in Compton's acts of dehumanization ("the aesthetics of dismemberment") and depravity. And so what Brite really presents here is, ultimately, yet another crimson leaf in the literature of the pornography of violence.

Exquisite Corpse Review


Drawing Blood

Bloodlines In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both-his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back.

In the company od a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned toface the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons taht drove his father to murder his family-and worse, to spare one of his sons...But as Trevor begins to draw his own catoon strip, as hw loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. Trevor and his lover plunge into a cyber-maze of cartoons, ghosts, and terror taht will lead either to understanding-true understanding-or to be a bloodraining repetition of the past...


Lost Souls

SEX,BLOOD,AND ROCK 'N' ROLL At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking fo acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not;Ann longing forlove, and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds-Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes- are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over the miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself....


Love In Vein

The classic horror tale is about fear. But now there is a con troversial new literature of the macabre that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share.

Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this new genre's most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone.

But neither is the night


Love In Vein II

Be warned. If you found Love in Vein too disturbingly dark, too exquisitely explicit, too deliciously erotic in the secrets it revealed-you're going to adore Love in Vein 2. It is not for everyone. It may not be what you want. But it may be what you need.


SwampFoetus


Wormwood


Are you Loathsome Tonight?


DARK DESTINY: PROPRIETORS OF FATE

edited by Edward E. Kramer (w/"The Comedy of St. Jehanne d'Arc" by Caitlin R. Kiernan and "Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz" by Poppy Z. Brite, plus Nancy A. Collins, Charles L. Grant, Marc Levinthal and John Mason Skipp, S.P. Somtow, and 14 others)


REVELATIONS

edited by Douglas E. Winter (w/"Triads" by Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust, plus Joe R. Lansdale, Clive Barker, David J. Schow, Ramsey Campbell, Whitley Strieber, and 5 others)


SPLATTERPUNKS II

edited by Paul M. Sammon (w/"Xenophobia" by Poppy Z. Brite and "Epiphany" by Christa Faust, plus Clive Barker, Kathe Koja, Brian Hodge, Karl Edward Wagner, and 22 others)


DARK TERRORS 3: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR

edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton (w/"Self-Made Man" by Poppy Z. Brite and "Estate" by Caitlin R. Kiernan, plus Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, and 14 others


THE EARTH STRIKES BACK

edited by Richard T. Chizmar (w/"Toxic Wastrels" by Poppy Z. Brite, plus Dan Simmons, Norman Partridge, Charles De Lint, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarboro, Hugh B. Cave, and 13 others)


WEIRD BUSINESS

edited by Joe R. Lansdale (w/"Becoming The Monster" by Poppy Z. Brite, plus Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Norman Partridge, Ambrose Bierce, Howard Waldrop, and 9 others)


YOUNG BLOOD

edited by Mike Baker (w/"Saved" by Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust, hard to find)

(North American pb, Zebra Books)


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