Utsökta lik handlar om Andrew Compton - en homosexuell massmördare och nekrofil. Berättelsen tar sin utgångspunkt i den sanna historien om Jeffrey Dahmers makabra levnadsöde, men sedan tar fantasin över. Compton flyr från fängelset, åker till New Orleans och slår sig i lag med Jay Byrne, e[...]

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The classic horror tale is about fear. But now there is a controversial new literature of the macabre that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share.[...]

Sex, blood and a haunted house - presented here from the master of gothic horror. At a house in Missing Mile, just outside New Orleans, little Trevor McGee found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both - his father. Twenty years later, the house lies abandoned. Trevor[...]

Hooked on painkillers after being injured on the job and owing money to his source, the crooked Dr. Lamotte, Rickey agrees to open a restaurant on a lakefront casino boat in which Lamotte and a silent partner have invested a fortune, only to discover that the line cook, an old friend with a past, is[...]

Robert McGee is a man living under a dark cloud. Acclaimed cartoonist of the underground comic book Birdland, he has moved his family from Texas to New Orleans and finally to Missing Mile, North Carolina. But Robert is unable to escape the drinking and the violence that have become as natural to him[...]

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[...]

A manic, spicy romp through the kitchens, dive bars, and drug deals of New Orleans, "Liquor" is equal parts ambition, scandal, Cajun hot sauce, cocaine, crayfish, and murder, served straight up.[...]

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 important things in life: cooking and each other. Ric[...]

A second helping of blood and passion ...Acclaimed dark fantasist Poppy Z. Brite's previous excursion into the nightmare realm of terrifying sensuality offered readers a sumptuous blood feast of unspeakable pleasures. Now she has done it again, serving up more provocative tales from some of the most[...]