Horror Aficionados discussion

It's her only good book.

I liked Brite's short stories better but 'Lost Souls' is probably worth checking out, I know some folks who really liked it.

i love how people can call a successful writer 'simple minded', when they have never met the person, nor do they know him/her, to me that's a simple minded statement, and great insight amanda....

She seems to be rated and she is that because of the short stories ? I dont mind i enjoy short stories more than novels often.

I can't discuss writers and their works without ever meeting them? Bryan, have you ever had an opinion about someone or something you've never known or done? Somehow, I don't think so.

spot on. writers and their works? sure. writer's minds and personalities? no, i think not. without ever meeting them, of course.

I really enjoyed EC, and I didn't think that I would, but in the end I really did.

Her early '90s stories "And His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" and "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves," are two of my favorite horror stories ever. They're in

Oh, well. Nice that you can take the higher ground. I have read some paper-thin plots that rehash some beaten-dead-horse stereotype and am pretty sure that's not off the mark for the writer's own simple-minded beliefs.

Mohammed wrote: "This is the only Poppy Z Brite topic i saw i wanted to ask if Lost Souls was a good vampire horror book to read if you wanted to try the author ?

I can get it from the library and im looking only ..."

You know actually I didn't like Lost Souls anywhere near as much as Drawing Blood, The Lazarus Heart or Exquisite Corpse.

draw.

Amanda wrote: "Mohammed wrote: "This is the only Poppy Z Brite topic i saw i wanted to ask if Lost Souls was a good vampire horror book to read if you wanted to try the author ?

I can get it from the library and..."

I actually saw the other book of her avalible in the original language is Drawing Blood. Does enough her fans see it better than Lost Souls ? If so i will easily choose Drawing Blood.

Mohammed wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Mohammed wrote: "This is the only Poppy Z Brite topic i saw i wanted to ask if Lost Souls was a good vampire horror book to read if you wanted to try the author ?

I can get it from ..."

Brite is one of those authors that it depends what the reader is looking for and whether they like her at all. I found Drawing Blood very imaginative and the story v ery interesting. Lost Souls for me was blander than Drawing Blood not as interesting and lush.

I have got to know my taste,interest i see in writers before i read them. I seldom go wrong. Writing gay men,sex doesnt matter if the horror is good,gothic.

I rather try her and than some gory,bland,generic horror.

I bought EC because it was advertised as a modern classic of the genre but could only read through a dozen of pages or so. I just felt I would throw up.

Yu82 wrote: "I bought EC because it was advertised as a modern classic of the genre but could only read through a dozen of pages or so. I just felt I would throw up."

Maybe having read two of the Splatterpunks anthos beforehand allowed me to stomach the gore :)

I only read the first Splatterpunks antho but I think Brite's book was better written than a lot of the stories in there. I think that's what made her book even more disturbing!

Will wrote: "I only read the first Splatterpunks antho but I think Brite's book was better written than a lot of the stories in there. I think that's what made her book even more disturbing!"

Exactly. I like her style very much and unlike with many of the splatterpunk stories I still remember much of the plot of EC.

This was one of my fav horror books to date. I have not read anything else by Poppy yet though. I was really shocked reading this and I don't shock often.