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Exquisite Corpse

By: Poppy Z. Brite
Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
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From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that best-selling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell”.

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. 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. 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. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.

Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.

©1996 Billy Martin (P)2020 David N. Wilson Crime Fiction Horror Serial Killers Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Crime Fiction Exciting Heartfelt Murder

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It's like if David Attenborough made an 8 hour documentary of "1 Man 1 Jar."

so basically

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This is a book with some bite. Literally! I was looking for disturbing literature when I stumbled on this. It did not disappoint. A very good piece of literary art. Every passage and chapter is a combination of amazing descriptions and gory horror. Not for the faint of heart, but if you can stomach it, it is a wild ride.

A Beautiful Disgusting Book

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Poppy Z Bright, you are a disgusting, foul minded, perverse human being. And I love it.

Dam, what a ride.

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my first poppy and it was exquisite. the narrator only enhance the lurid story with his growling dark voice.

first poppy

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Who knew that the grotesque could be so beautifully and eloquently written.
I am blown away by this book as well as the performance.
Definitely gruesome (I had to leave and come back several times) so be prepared but I def recommend!

Damn

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