I won’t lie. The unparalleled brutality of Poppy Z. Brite’s Exquisite Corpse compelled me to fling it across my apartment at one point during my reading. I have unflinchingly sat through both Hostel movies and five Texas Chainsaw Massacres, but this grimoire of torture was oddly upsetting. The narrative weaves through the intersecting lives of four uniquely terrifying anti-heroes, culminating in a classic murder party, the grisly details of which Poppy Z. Brite manically splatters onto the page. Like any other story, this is ultimately a tale about the search for love, albeit the love of murder in some instances.
Join us deep in the bowels of BookPeople’s (allegedly) haunted third floor on Tuesday, February 21st at 7 p.m. to talk Exquisite Corpse and serial killers with the Nightmare Factory Book Club, which meets on the third Tuesday of every month. Arrive innocent and doe-eyed, leave emotionally scarred.
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