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Title: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0-440-21798-9 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (35 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Collection--A Definate Must For Brite Fans
Comment: If you are already a Poppy Z. Brite fan, this colletion is a must read, and far better than her more recent collection: Are You Loathesome Tonight. If you have not yet read Brite, however, I recommend that you start with one of her novels, as her stories are a bit weaker and better appriciated once you are already familiar with her style. This collection contains some wonderful little gems--in fact, it's filled with them. Probably the best work in the collection--which also happens to be her most reprinted story--is "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood." "Georgia Story," is also a nice little piece and will be particularly loved by Brite Fans because it features Ghost and Steve from Lost Souls. The story which I feel has the best title, and is a great story on top of that, is "Footprints in the Water." Another great story which gets second place as far as best title is "Optional Music for Voice and Piano." I could go on and on like this, because I loved every story. This is a collection well worth owning. Previously titled Swamp Foetus.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quiet and tight.
Comment: Poppy Z. Brite, Wormwood (Dell, 1994)
This relatively early collection of stories (her first collection, and third published work, previously known as Swamp Foetus), collects stories written between 1986 and 1992. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the book is watching the progression between the earlier and the later stories; you can tell before getting to the end (each is dated) which are which, after an example or two of each.
This isn't to say the earlier stories are bad, they're just raw. And raw is not a bad thing. In fact, it can be quite charming, especially when one encounters another two Steve and Ghost stories ("Angels" and "How to Get Ahead in New York"), which also happen to be two of the longest in the book. It's rather odd to have watched an author create her own shared world and remain its sole inhabitant.
Steve and Ghost aside, there's a lot of fun stuff here for the discriminating fan of viscerally atmospheric (if that makes sense) horror. Brite's tales are not for the squeamish, but she never treads into the realms of Robert Deveraux (or, for that matter, her own novel Exquisite Corpse). Even the zombie story, which is a genre that basically invites excess gore (especially since Peter Jackson's wonderful film Dead Alive), has more of a quiet, dignified air about it (albeit one with some language that may make some neophytes squirm a bit in a different way).
Very good stuff. It's easy to say in hindsight this is the beginning work of a very gifted author, so imagine I'm saying it in 1994 and have amazing powers of presentiment. *** ½
Rating: 2
Summary: Some good...others not
Comment: On the whole I enjoyed most stories, but after Drawing Blood and Lost Souls, which I loved, there's no comparison...
Also, the abortion story in this book, the pregnant girl in another had me wondering...Does Poppy hate women? If you've read all her works you'll know what I mean...
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Title: Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0440214920 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: EXQUISITE CORPSE by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0684836270 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0440212812 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Straub ISBN: 1887368256 Publisher: Gauntlet Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Crow: The Lazarus Heart (Crow) by Poppy Z. Brite ISBN: 0061020095 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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