 Photo of Poppy Z. Brite by J.K. Potter. Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967) is an American author born in New Orleans. Early in her 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. Some of her better known novels are Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and Exquisite Corpse (1996); she has also released short fiction collections: Swamp Foetus (also published as Wormwood, 1993), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published as Self-Made Man, 1998), Wrong Things (with Caitlin R. Kiernan, 2001), and The Devil You Know (2003). She has also written a biography about singer Courtney Love (1996), which was officially "unauthorized" but is widely known to have been done at Love's suggestion and with her cooperation. Image File history File links PoppyZBrite_Potter2. ...
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May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ...
Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ...
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Lost Souls is a 1992 horror novel, the first written by Poppy Z. Brite. ...
Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel, the second novel from horror author Poppy Z. Brite. ...
Exquisite Corpse is the third horror novel by Poppy Z. Brite. ...
CaitlÃn Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland) is the author of numerous science fiction and dark fantasy works, including many comics, more than seventy published short stories, and numerous scientific papers. ...
Courtney Love Courtney Michelle Love[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole, and as the widow of Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), lead singer of the band Nirvana. ...
In the late 1990s and early 2000s she has largely moved away from horror fiction while still writing about gay (but more realistic) characters. Her critically acclaimed novels Liquor (2004), Prime (2005), and Soul Kitchen (2006) are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world. (Brite has been in a committed relationship for 17 years with Chris DeBarr, chef of The Delachaise in New Orleans.) Her short novel The Value of X (2002) and several stories in her most recent collection The Devil You Know revisit the characters from Liquor and chronicle the lives of the Stubbs family, a Catholic clan whose roots are sunk deep in the traditional culture of New Orleans. Brite plans to write at least three more novels in the Liquor series, tentatively titled Dead Shrimp Blues, Hurricane Stew, and Double Shot. Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...
In 2002-2003, a screenplay adaptation of Exquisite Corpse was co-written by Max Krueger and Robert St. Mary. The script was registered with the Writers' Guild of America. Krueger, St. Mary and Flo Speakman sought to produce Exquisite Corpse as an independent film to be shot on location in New Orleans, but the funding failed to materialize[1]. Brite has often stated that, while she will allow her work to be optioned for film under the right circumstances, she has little interest in movies and is not overly eager to see her work filmed. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ...
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Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about her gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. She identifies more as male than female but makes no attempt to dress or appear male and also does not expect to be referred to as "he"[2]. Brite is comfortable with the term "non-operative transsexual". Gender identity disorder as identified by psychologists and medical doctors is a condition where a person who has been assigned one gender (usually at birth on the basis of their sex, but compare intersexual) but identifies as belonging to another gender, or does not conform with the gender role their...
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During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Brite at first opted to stay at home, but she eventually relocated 80 miles away to her mother's home in Mississippi. She continued to update her fans regarding the situation, including the unknown status of her house and pets, on her blog[3], and has since become one of the first 100,000 New Orleanians to begin repopulating the city. Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...
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A critical essay on Brite's fiction appears in The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004) by S. T. Joshi. Sunanda Tryambak Joshi (b. ...
Bibliography Novels and Novellas Short Story Collections Lost Souls is a 1992 horror novel, the first written by Poppy Z. Brite. ...
Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel, the second novel from horror author Poppy Z. Brite. ...
Exquisite Corpse is the third horror novel by Poppy Z. Brite. ...
The Lazarus Heart is an original novel by Poppy Z. Brite based on the world and thematic concerns of The Crow and published in 1998 by Harper Prism. ...
Plastic Jesus is a novella by Poppy Z. Brite, published by Subterranean Press in 2000. ...
- Wormwood (also published in limited edition and in the UK as "Swamp Foetus" - 1993)
- Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published in the UK as "Self-Made Man" - 1998)
- Wrong Things (with Caitlin R. Kiernan - 2001)
- The Devil You Know (2003)
Chapbooks Cover art by Richard A. Kirk Wrong Things is a collaborative short-fiction collection by Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlin R. Kiernan, released by Subterranean Press in 2001. ...
CaitlÃn Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland) is the author of numerous science fiction and dark fantasy works, including many comics, more than seventy published short stories, and numerous scientific papers. ...
- R.I.P (1998)
- The Seed of Lost Souls (1999)
- Stay Awake (2000)
- Would You? (2000)
- Pansu (2001)
- Con Party at Hotel California (2002)
- The Feast of St. Rosalie (2003)
- Used Stories (2004)
- Crown of Thorns (2005)
Nonfiction The abbreviation or acronym RIP has several different meanings: It can stand for Rest In Peace, a phrase which often appears on tombstones. ...
Stay Awake is a song from Walt Disneys film Mary Poppins, and it is composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. ...
Crown of Thorns is a short story by Poppy Z. Brite, published in Subterranean magazine and as a chapbook by Subterranean Press in 2005. ...
- Courtney Love: The Real Story (biography, 1997)
- Guilty But Insane (essays, 2001)
Uncollected Short Fiction - The Freaks (juvenilia) (The Spook #12, 2002; also appears on Brite's website along with other early/unpublished fiction)
- Fuck It, We're Going To Jamaica! (webzine Necromantic; also appears on Brite's website)
- The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone (1894) (co-written with David Ferguson; Shadows over Baker Street, 2003; Ballantine Books)
- The Devil of Delery Street (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, 2004; Vintage)
- The Working Slob's Prayer (Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, 2005; ROC)
- Wound Man and Horned Melon Go To Hell (Damned Nation, 2006; Hellbound Books)
- Wandering the Borderlands (Masques V, 2006; Gauntlet Press)
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