Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
by Poppy Z. Brite
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Author: Poppy Z. BriteEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-12-01
ISBN: 0440217989
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
Book Review: Stays behind your eyes
Summary: 4 Stars
The stories in this book still haunt me and I've read them so many times. Ms Brite's style of writing is the kind that crawls under your skin and stays there.
My favorite was "Optional Music for Voice and Piano" but it's hard to name just one because they're all so moving. The best part about this collection is that the scares aren't as elementary as other traditionally frightening literature. Most scary stories are a sword; they'll hack you up but you'll see them coming.
This group is more of a razor blade; You don't know how deep you've been cut until the blood starts to fall.
Summary of Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
A collection of erotic horror stories follows the adventures of solace-seeking lonelyhearts on a North Carolina highway, behind a dusty Georgia carny show, in a Baton Rouge mausoleum, and an alley in Calcutta. Reprint.The name of Poppy Z. Brite is well known to most horror fans. What some do not know, though, is that Brite hit the ground running as a fiction writer, and some of her best work so far is right here in this collection of a dozen tales (originally published as Swamp Foetus) she wrote between ages 18 and 24. The exigencies of long plot development and evolving characters that sometimes bog her down in the novels are absent from the short story form, where Brite's extraordinary talent for compressed, redolent imagery combines with her keen sense of narrative structure to create perfect little objets d'art. Stories like "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood," "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves," and my favorite, "The Sixth Sentinel," are too exquisite to be missed.
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