This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.” ― Poppy Z.

In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Read 174 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Brite, Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories “The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. “With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.” Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.” “It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.” The following elements characterize his writing: 90s nihilistic angst, graphic sexuality and violence, quirky and damaged characters, and the haunting presence of his native New Orleans.

Brite (Now living as Billy Martin) was one of the authors in the much-touted Dell Abyss Line. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.You can use these or any other quote you want AS LONG AS IT IS HORROR Plague Review 29: Swamp Foetus by Poppy Z. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell.”

Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite