About one of my favorite horror novels- Exquisite Corpse by: Poppy Z. Brite
22:12 Aug 03 2005
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This is the inscription on one the pages right before the start of the novel Exquisite Corpse which reads:
Records of the 1994 autopsy of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer reveal that officials kept Dahmer's body shackled at the feet during the entire procedure, "such was the fear of this man,"according to pathologist Robert Huntington.
-Milwaukee Journal-AP, March 17, 1995
And if you are brave enough to take on reading Exsquisite Corpse, you will find some relevance to that inscription in the accual story line of novel itself. Really I have never honestly had a novel effect me in more ways than this one. Never has a writer written more boldy as this and covered topics such as Cannibalism, and Necrophilia which such scientific accuracy and yet made it read elequantly. Even more impressive is how she covers these topics so thoroughly and yet the story is laced with eroticism of the absolute most dark, morbid kind throughout. It is a book that may haunt you after you've read it but atleast for me, once I started reading it, I couldn't stop. I have to say now too, I am in the process of reading it a second time. She is truly one of a kind as a writer. I agree with the inscription on the back of the book jacket which is a review on her from a publication called -New York Native..."Rice, Stephen King and Dean Koontz are cringing wusses next to Poppy Z. Brite, whose perverse, scathingly intelligent, often terrifying homoerotic novels have made the young writer one of the rising stars of her literary generation".
And below that "Poppy Z. Brite is the mistress of the gruesome but unforgettable image." Susan Larson,The Times-Picayune(New Orleans)
More true words cannot be said about her. If you read the novel, you'll understand.
Also amazing if how she has you almost sympathizing with characters you'd never in your wildest dreams expect to feel sympathy towards.
With characters based on a real serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, who'd ever expect to feel any sympathy at all. But in the entire scheme of things, there is truly sympathy to be felt for each and every character in this most amazing, truly terrying tale.
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