Wormwood (book)

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Cover to "Wormwood"
Cover to "Wormwood"

Wormwood (also titled Swamp Foetus) is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z. Brite published in 1993 by Dell Publishing.

[edit] Stories

  • "A Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Poppy" (An Introduction by Dan Simmons)
  • Angels
  • A Georgia Story
  • His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
  • Optional Music for Voice and Piano
  • Xenophobia
  • The Sixth Sentinel
  • Missing
  • Footprints in the Water
  • How to Get Ahead in New York
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
  • The Elder
  • The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire

[edit] Reviews

  • "Every page of Brite's work stresses the beautiful and heartbreaking strangeness of the world." - Fangoria
Poppy Z. Brite
Bibliography
Novels and Novellas: Lost Souls | Drawing Blood | Exquisite Corpse | The Lazarus Heart | Plastic Jesus | The Value of X | Liquor | Triads | Prime | Soul Kitchen | D*U*C*K
Short Story Collections: Wormwood | Are You Loathsome Tonight? | Wrong Things | The Devil You Know
Chapbooks R.I.P. | The Seed of Lost Souls | Stay Awake | Would You? | Pansu | Con Party at Hotel California | The Feast of St. Rosalie | Used Stories | Crown of Thorns
Nonfiction Courtney Love: The Real Story | Guilty But Insane
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