"Are you loathsome tonight?" - Poppy Z. Brite (Gauntlet Publications)
Behold! Here is Poppy Z.
Brite's latest release, her 2nd short story collection after "Swamp fœtus". Apart from "Saved" and "Self-made
man", reminiscent of her own "Exquisite corpse" and Romero's "Night of the living dead", the stories
are fantastic, eerie and dream-like rather than downright gory. Most of them were already published in
various anthologies and sometimes cover unusual styles for Poppy Brite, like fairytale (King of cats)
and historical fiction ("Mussolini and the axeman's jazz", bringing together Il Duce, archduke Francis
Ferdinand, just after his untimely death in Sarajevo, and New Orleans serial killer "the axeman"). She
also summons up the ghosts of Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Orton) and Elvis (the title story). The visual
pleasures are not forgotten, for the book is illustrated by pictures of J.K. Potter, whose book "Neurotica"
(Overlook Press) also contains other interesting portraits of Ms. Brite and Lydia Lunch. This will help
you wait for Brite's new novel, which is in the making. Enjoy.
Marie Lecocq
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