Instead she's drawn to the earnest and aesthetic side of serial murder - there may be human viscera on display everywhere, but the book itself is oddly heartless. But the unrelenting gore grows monotonous, and Brite seems deaf to the black-comic undertones of what she's doing. There is, to be fair, an unmistakable intelligence at work here, and a grisly sense of rightness when these two killing machines meet in a New Orleans gay bar and fall in love. He ripped at the edges of the wound, pulling off strips of skin and meat, swallowing them whole, smearing his face with his own saliva and what little juice remained in this chill tissue." Cannibalism, too, gets its due, particularly when Jay feels like snacking: "He sank his teeth into flesh that had gone the consistency of firm pudding. Not surprisingly, their activities make for plenty of throat-slitting, disembowelment and necrophilia. The protagonists of "Exquisite Corpse" are Andrew Compton, an English serial killer, and Jay Byrne, an American serial killer with an impressive collection of pickled and frozen corpses in his backyard. She is the only writer I know who could write a guidebook to Hell that would make me want to go there., Dennis Cooper Author of Frisk, Wrong, and Try Poppy Z. Has the author softened her approach in hopes of winning a wider audience? Not for a single blood-spattered page. However, "Exquisite Corpse" is the first of her books to be issued by a mainstream trade publisher. Brite is a rising star in the world of horror fiction. With a resume that includes such titles as "Drawing Blood" and "Swamp Foetus," the 29-year-old Poppy Z.
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