Poppy Z. Brite

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

John Rickey and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs

Liquor (Mar-2004)
Prime (Jan-2005)

Multi-Author Series List

The Crow

2 - The Lazarus Heart (Apr-1998)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Xenophobia

    in Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge
    • / Science Fiction
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    cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...

  • Lost Souls

    SEX, BLOOD, AND ROCK 'N' ROLL At a club in children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to a...

  • Drawing Blood

    BLOODLINES In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both-his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after...

  • Wormwood

    IN THE HEART OF YOUR DESIRE.... In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can’t hear the music... Behind a dusty Georgia carny show... In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge; or in an alley in Calcutta... Here wander...

  • Exquisite Corpse

    From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell.”To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. Af...

  • Love in Vein II

  • Are You Loathsome Tonight?

    Poppy Z. Brite, author of four novels, LOST SOULS, DRAWING BLOOD, EXQUISITE CORPSE, and THE LAZARUS HEART, plus several collections of short stories, has gone to the edge and back with ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT (titled SELF-MADE MAN in Europe). Join ...

  • The Lazarus Heart

    The Crow - 2

    Sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit, S&M photographer Jared Poe must enter into the world of the dead to discover who murdered his lover, and as he ravages the dark streets of New Orleans to clear his name, he must come to terms with the p...

  • Plastic Jesus

    The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized aboutperfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospe...



  • The Ocean

    in The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

    An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • The Value of X

  • Liquor

    John Rickey and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs

    Two line cooks decide to open their own restaurant in New Orleans in the second book in the Rickey and G-Man series by novelist Poppy Z. Brite. New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make ...

  • Prime

    John Rickey and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs

    Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a local paper not-so-subtl...

  • Fear of the Unknown

    A chill wind blows through the thirteen stories in this new collection.

    It rustles dead cornfields and diseased grapevines, travels through dark train tunnels and small railside towns, brushes across the killing floor of an abandoned LA shop and ...

  • The Devil You Know

    Poppy Z. Brite is a master of the short form. In her newest gathering (and first collection since 1998) you'll find everything from stories with an alternate world Poppy as the coroner of New Orleans (“Oh Death, Where is Thy Spatula?” “Marisol...

  • Soul Kitchen

    A sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-l...

  • D*U*C*K

  • Second Line

    hese two short novels bookend Poppy Z. Brite’s cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans. The Value of X introduces G-man and Rickey, who grew up in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and who are slowly realizing there are only two i...

  • Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz & Are You Loathsome Tonight?

    Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories were specifically chosen by the author Poppy Z. Brite and her fans as favorite examples of her work. Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz is a thrilling mix off historical fact a...



  • Antediluvian Tales

    The work of almost every New Orleans writer has been irrevocably split into two periods: pre-Katrina and post-Katrina. As Poppy Z. Brite writes in the foreword to this new mini-collection, “After the events of 2005, I couldn’t see pairing stories...

  • Triads

    In 1997, Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust’s novella “Triads” was published in the groundbreaking anthology Revelations. Here, they pick up where the novella left off and follow their characters through further adventure, love, and heartbreak.In...

  • Poppy Z. Brite - Selected Stories

  • The Crystal Empire

  • Used Stories

  • A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories

    The sixth volume in the popular Series II of Little Books is a collection of stories set in the weird and often surreal settings of the author's town of New Orleans.Brite achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre during 1990s. Poppy's later work ...

  • Wrong Things

    • / Horror
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    This short collaborative collection contains an original novella by Caitlin R. Kiernan, an original novella by Poppy Z. Brite, and a brand-new collaborative story by Caitlin and Poppy set in Poppy's fictional stomping grounds of Missing Mile, North C...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Poppy Z. Brite has published 26 books.

Poppy Z. Brite does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Poppy Z. Brite, Xenophobia, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Poppy Z. Brite has 1 series.
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