Lost Souls - Poppy Z. Brite Reviews

Someone I know has an obsession with this book so when I saw it in the library I decided to give it a go. This is not the kind of thing I would usually pick up, this is about vampires and bands and drugs, sex and alcohol. These vampires are not made, they are born. If they bite a human they can't change them into a vampire, it doesn't work like ...

While the vampire and gothic culture do often collide, they actually have little to do with one another in reality. The blend of traditional vampire tales (i.e. goth children, sensuality) and newfound elements (half-bloods, incest, filing of teeth father than actually having fangs) brings a new view to the vampire. All too ...

I'm a bit of a vampire fan, particularly vampire fiction, must be a touch of the goth still left in me!! I'm an avid reader anyway but have never gone out of my way to read Poppy Z Brites work until I found this book in a charity shop for a stunning fifty pence!! I avoided Brites work for a reason, perhaps I should ...

My first point has to be that I found this book surprisingly erotic. I have come to expect sex and sensuality in books and films, and particularly in horror to be rather insipid, or at the very least a bit insulting. Butin Poppy Z. Brite world it is affirming and luxurious, at the same time as being dark and bloody. But this is ...

As a fan of horror literature, I was overjoyed to find Poppy Z. Brite's first novel. Finally someone had come along and breathed in new life! I was rather bored with Anne Rice, and the more traditional vampire literature. It's a great twist on traditional vampirism. Poppy's characters are an odd grouping of punk/goth ...