I am happy to take this very good advice. Somebody, probably the author, made fun of me for it by saying I should stick to Poppy Z. The last story in this collection, while plenty violent, reminded me more of Ligotti than anything else.Ī few years back, I wrote a fairly critical review of a book of Vampiric black magic. Brite associated with Splatterpunk but I don’t know why. Howard & Others (2019) and Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos (2014). Bobby Derie is the author of Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Brite’s most-anthologized stories good places to read it include Cthulhu 2000 (1999) and Brite’s anthology Wormwood: A Collection of Stories (1995). I realised about halfway through ‘Xenophobia’ that I had read it before in the second Splatterpunks anthology. His Mouth Will Taste Of Wormwood is one of Poppy Z.

I know that Brite’s 2nd novel also features characters from that Lost Souls, and I intend to read that one soon too. ‘His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood’ might be my favourite story of the bunch, but I also really enjoyed reading about Steve and Ghost from Lost Souls in ‘How to Get ahead in New York’ and ‘Angels’. They encounter geeks, zombies, corpse thieves and other freaks. These are mostly stories about skinny, sensitive, gay goth boys who drink too much. This reminds me so much of people I used to hang out with when I was younger that it made me quite nostalgic. I’m a straight guy in my mid 30s, and I enjoyed the Hell out of this book, but if, by chance, you’re a queer goth teenager, throw whatever the fuck you’re reading in the garbage and read this instead. In this intoxicating collection, Poppy Z revels in her favorite. Brite: Amazon. Buy a used copy of Wormwood : A Collection of Short Stories book by Poppy Z. Brite’s novel, Lost Souls, a few years ago, and this, his first collection of short stories, is more of the same. Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Book.Penguin Books – 1995 (Originally published 1993) Klein Lord of the Land by Gene Wolfe The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell On the Slab by Harlan Ellison and 24 Views of Mr Fuji by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny. Friesner I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket but by God Eliot It Was a Photograph from Life by Joanna Russ Black Man with a Horn by T. Paul Wilson Love's Eldritch Ichor by Esther M. by Gahan Wilson The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti Shaft Number 247 by Basil Copper The Unthinkable by Bruce Sterling The Adder by Fred Chappell Fat Face by Michael Shea Pickman's Modem by Lawrence Watt-Evans The Barrens by F. Brite The Big Fish by Kim Newman The Shadow on the Doorstep by James P.

This anthology contains: His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine no interior markings.

Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite