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
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- ISBN13: 9780440217985
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
Book Review: Vivid stories, but weak endings
Summary: 2 Stars
Poppy is a talented writer - she paints vivid pictures in your mind and makes you feel like you're part of the story. However, I often felt let down with the endings of the stories in this collection. I enjoy a build up to a shocking ending in my horror, but in this collection you often see the ending coming from a mile away. Other times the stories just end, and you wonder why there wasn't a little more meat to the conclusion. I know this may just be a pet peeve of mine, and I don't expect a "Sixth Sense" shock or twist at the end of every story, but I do at least like to read more than just a fade-away tale in the horror genre.
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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