Drawing Blood in Queereaders

Dec 13, 2008 Paul Jr. rated it it was amazing

Back when Anne Rice was all the rage, dozens of authors jumped on the brooding, melodramatic historical vampire quickly turning what Rice wrote into a literary cliché. The shelves were littered with Rice wanna-be’s. Then along came Poppy Z. Brite, a short story writer who was making the horror world sit up and take notice by blending very realistic, human characters with an almost splatter-punk kind of sensibility. To boot, Brite was doing what many authors had never even contemplated. She was m ...more

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Aug 18, 2009 Dylan rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror, love-story, gay

Good book, thought it was about vamps when my friend Marc recommended it to me, but it's not...which is fine. Awesomely bloody non-stereotypical gay love story between a skinny goth hacker from New Orleans on the run and a hippie-looking young graphic artist whose whole family was murdered by his father 20 years ago. Whew! They end up playing house in the actual house the murders happened in, and yes, it's haunted! Lots of hot gay sex, large ganja spliffs, southern gothic hanging moss, rock n' r ...more

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Feb 02, 2009 Jan rated it really liked it

A horrifically supernatural gay love story about two pretty boys, written by a female author who appears to be obsessed with blood and other bodily fluids. What's not to like? ...more

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