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Poppy Z. Brite

Martin, William Joseph

May 25, 1967 (age 58)

Birth place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

106 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1986 3 Short Fiction Optional Music for Voice and Piano The Horror Show, Winter 1986
September 1986 49 Short Fiction Missing The Horror Show, Fall 1986
January 1987 45 Short Fiction The Elder The Horror Show, January 1987
September 1987 11 Short Fiction Angels (Goldengrove Unleaving) The Horror Show, Fall 1987
September 1987 5 Short Fiction Love (Ash 1) The Horror Show, Fall 1987
September 1987 8 Interview Poppy Z. Brite The Horror Show, Fall 1987
February 1988 21 Short Fiction A Taste of Blood and Altars The Horror Show, Summer 1988
March 1990 80 Short Fiction Xenophobia The Horror Show, Spring 1990
1992 152 Short Fiction How to Get Ahead in New York Gauntlet 4
1992 178 Review Lost Souls Gauntlet 4
May 1992 32 Interview Poppy, Brite and Dark: An Interview with Poppy Z. Brite Forbidden Lines, May/June 1992
September 1992 66 Review Lost Souls Locus, #380 September 1992
September 1992 49 Review Lost Souls Fangoria, September 1992
October 1992 107 Review Lost Souls Cemetery Dance, Fall 1992
October 1992 109 Review Lost Souls Cemetery Dance, Fall 1992
November 1992 8 Review Lost Souls The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1992
November 1992 21 Review Lost Souls Locus, #382 November 1992
December 1992 101 Review Lost Souls Science Fiction Eye, #11, December 1992
1993 45 Interview A Conversation with Poppy Z. Brite Cemetery Dance, Fall 1993
1993 98 Review Lost Souls Foundation, #59 Autumn 1993
January 1993 97 Review Swamp Foetus Cemetery Dance, Winter 1993
March 1993 59 Review Swamp Foetus Locus, #386 March 1993
May 1993 4 Interview Poppy Z. Brite: Taking the Plunge Locus, #388 May 1993
June 1993 57 Review Lost Souls Figment: Tales from the Imagination, Summer 1993
October 1993 45 Essay Letter (Locus #393) Locus, #393 October 1993
November 1993 69 Review Drawing Blood Fangoria, November 1993
December 1993 42 Review Drawing Blood Deathrealm, Winter 1993
December 1993 9 Essay Read This (NYRSF, December 1993) The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1993
1994 Short Fiction The Sixth Sentinel Heliophobe #1, Winter 94/95
January 1994 19 Review Drawing Blood Locus, #396 January 1994
January 1994 12 Review Drawing Blood Horror, January 1994
January 1994 33|33.8 Review Drawing Blood Science Fiction Chronicle, #169 January 1994
January 1994 5 Interview Horror Talks with Author Poppy Z. Brite Horror, January 1994
June 1994 23 Interview Brite Now! Interzone, June 1994
June 1994 37 Review Drawing Blood Vector 179
June 1994 36 Review Lost Souls Vector 179
June 1994 37 Review Swamp Foetus Vector 179
July 1994 55 Essay Letter (Cemetery Dance, Summer 1994) Cemetery Dance, Summer 1994
October 1994 47|47.01 Review Love in Vein Science Fiction Chronicle, #177 October 1994
November 1994 8 Review Drawing Blood Vector 181
November 1994 29 Review Love in Vein Locus, #406 November 1994
December 1994 15 Interview The Brite Stuff Bloodsongs, Summer 1994
1995 3 Short Fiction His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood The Urbanite, #6
January 1995 57|57.6 Review Drawing Blood Interzone, January 1995
April 1995 30 Interview Drawing Blood from Poppy Dark Asylum #2, April 1995
1996 55 Short Fiction An Excerpt from Exquisite Corpse Bones of the Children, Fall 1996
1996 8 Review Drawing Blood Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Winter 1996-7
1996 7 Review Lost Souls Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Winter 1996-7
1996 7 Review Swamp Foetus Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Winter 1996-7
1996 48 Interview The Unclaimed Zones: An Interview with Poppy Z. Brite Bones of the Children, Fall 1996
June 1996 44 Interview Silhouettes: Interview with Poppy Z. Brite Deathrealm, Summer 1996
August 1996 27 Review Exquisite Corpse Locus, #427 August 1996
September 1996 68 Review Exquisite Corpse Fangoria, September 1996
November 1996 55 Review Exquisite Corpse Interzone, November 1996
1997 42 Interview An Interview with Rodger Gerberding The Silver Web, #14
1997 Review Exquisite Corpse Nova Express, Summer 1997
1997 20 Essay This Is Stranger Than I Thought It Was Going to Be Squane's Journal, #4
January 1997 43 Interview Poppy Z. Brite The Universal Mind, #1 1997
March 1997 Review Exquisite Corpse Vector 192
April 1997 13 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, Spring 1997) Cemetery Dance, Spring 1997
April 1997 22 Review Love in Vein II Locus, #435 April 1997
May 1997 25 Review Love in Vein II Locus, #436 May 1997
July 1997 28 Review Exquisite Corpse The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1997
October 1997 21 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, Fall 1997) Cemetery Dance, Fall 1997
May 1998 13 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #28) Cemetery Dance, #28
May 1998 28 Review The Lazarus Heart Locus, #448 May 1998
September 1998 72 Interview Interview with Poppy Z. Brite: New Orleans Hothouse Flower Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Fall 1998
September 1998 73 Review The Crow: The Lazarus Heart Fangoria, September 1998
November 1998 35 Review The Lazarus Heart Vector 202
December 1998 13 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #30) Cemetery Dance, #30
December 1998 37 Short Fiction Vine of the Soul Cemetery Dance, #30
1999 66 Review Are You Loathsome Tonight Dark Regions/Horror Magazine, Summer 1999
March 1999 37 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #31) Cemetery Dance, #31
April 1999 20 Interview Poppy Z. Brite Interview Flesh & Blood, #4
May 1999 76 Review Are You Loathsome Tonight? Fangoria, May 1999
July 1999 23 Review Are You Loathsome Tonight? Locus, #462 July 1999
October 1999 73 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #32) Cemetery Dance, #32
April 2000 43 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #33) Cemetery Dance, #33
October 2000 55 Review Plastic Jesus Locus, #477 October 2000
May 2001 13 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #34) Cemetery Dance, #34
November 2001 40 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #36) Cemetery Dance, #36
December 2001 61 Review Wrong Things Locus, #491 December 2001
April 2002 25 Review Pansu Locus, #495 April 2002
October 2002 4 Interview A Conversation with Poppy Z. Brite Cemetery Dance, #40
October 2002 10 Essay Guilty But Insane (Cemetery Dance, #40) Cemetery Dance, #40
October 2002 7 Short Fiction The Heart of New Orleans City Slab, Halloween 2002
March 2003 23 Review The Devil You Know Locus, #506 March 2003
June 2003 110 Review The Value of X Cemetery Dance, #44
August 2004 27 Interview An Interview with Poppy Z. Brite Black October Magazine, #5
October 2004 11 Interview From New Orleans with Love Lighthouse Magazine #3, October 2004
November 2004 33 Review Triads Locus, #526 November 2004
January 2005 94 Interview Author Interview: Poppy Z. Brite Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation, January 2005
January 2005 54 Essay untitled (Simulacrum, January 2005) Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation, January 2005
March 2005 108 Review Liquor Cemetery Dance, #51, 2005
2006 10 Short Fiction Crown of Thorns Subterranean, Issue #3
February 2006 80 Review The Devil You Know Interzone, February 2006
April 2006 |2 Short Fiction D* U* C* K (excerpt) Subterranean Press Magazine, April 2006
June 2006 95 Interview Interview with Poppy Z. Brite Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #6, Summer 2006
March 2007 7 Short Fiction Wandering the Borderlands Subterranean Online, Winter 2007
November 2008 8 Short Fiction The Seed of Lost Souls Subterranean Online, Fall 2008
November 2008 8a Essay The Seed of Lost Souls: Introduction Subterranean Online, Fall 2008
June 2010 155 Review Exquisite Corpse Aurealis, #43
November 2012 |11 Interview Author Spotlight: Poppy Z. Brite Nightmare Magazine, November 2012
November 2012 |4 Short Fiction The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire Nightmare Magazine, November 2012
October 2015 67 Short Fiction Bayou de la Mère Nightmare Magazine, October 2015
May 2024 |8 Essay Redefining the Borders: My Experience of Queerness in Horror Fiction Gamut Magazine, May 2024

31 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1992 Novel Lost Souls Poppy Z. Brite
1993 Novel Drawing Blood Poppy Z. Brite
1993 Collection Swamp Foetus Poppy Z. Brite
1994 Anthology Love in Vein Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg
1995 Collection His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood Poppy Z. Brite
1996 Novel Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite
1996 Collection Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories Poppy Z. Brite
1997 Nonfiction Courtney Love: The Real Story Poppy Z. Brite
1997 Anthology Love in Vein II Poppy Z. Brite
1998 Omnibus A Murder of Crows David Bischoff & Poppy Z. Brite & Chet Williamson
1998 Collection Are You Loathsome Tonight? Poppy Z. Brite
1998 Novel The Lazarus Heart Poppy Z. Brite
1999 Collection Self-Made Man Poppy Z. Brite
1999 Chapbook The Seed of Lost Souls Poppy Z. Brite
2000 Chapbook Plastic Jesus Poppy Z. Brite
2000 Chapbook Stay Awake Poppy Z. Brite
2000 Nonfiction Would You? Poppy Z. Brite
2001 Nonfiction Guilty But Insane Poppy Z. Brite
2001 Chapbook Pansu Poppy Z. Brite
2001 Collection Wrong Things Poppy Z. Brite & Caitlín R. Kiernan
2003 Collection The Devil You Know Poppy Z. Brite
2003 Novel The Value of X Poppy Z. Brite
2004 Novel Liquor Poppy Z. Brite
2004 Novel Triads Poppy Z. Brite & Christa Faust
2005 Novel Prime Poppy Z. Brite
2006 Novel Soul Kitchen Poppy Z. Brite
2007 Collection Antediluvian Tales Poppy Z. Brite
2007 Novel D*U*C*K Poppy Z. Brite
2009 Omnibus Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans Poppy Z. Brite
2014 Collection Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz & Are You Loathsome Tonight? Poppy Z. Brite
2016 Collection Doctor Brite Poppy Z. Brite

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1991 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire Nominee
1992 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel Lost Souls Nominee
1992 Lambda Literary Awards Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy Lost Souls Nominee
1993 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Drawing Blood Nominee
1993 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Drawing Blood Nominee
1993 Lambda Literary Awards LGBT Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror Drawing Blood Nominee
1993 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Lost Souls Finalist
1993 Locus Poll Award Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel Lost Souls Nominee
1993 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Calcutta, Lord of Nerves Nominee
1994 International Horror Guild Award Best Anthology Love in Vein Winner
1994 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Swamp Foetus Nominee
1994 Locus Poll Award Best Horror Novel Drawing Blood Nominee
1994 World Fantasy Award Best Novel Drawing Blood Nominee
1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Traduction Âmes perdues Winner
1995 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Love in Vein Finalist
1995 World Fantasy Award Best Anthology Love in Vein Nominee
1996 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Exquisite Corpse Nominee
1996 International Horror Guild Award Best Collection Love in Vein Nominee
1996 International Horror Guild Award Best Novel Exquisite Corpse Nominee
1996 International Horror Guild Award Best Novel Drawing Blood Nominee
1996 International Horror Guild Award Best Short Story Wormwood Nominee
1997 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Triads Nominee
1998 British Fantasy Award Best Anthology/Collection Love in Vein II Nominee
1998 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Calcutta, seigneur des nerfs Winner
1998 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Love in Vein II Nominee
1999 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Are You Loathsome Tonight? Nominee
2000 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Plastic Jesus Nominee
2000 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Are You Loathsome Tonight? Nominee
2001 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction The Rest of the Wrong Thing Nominee
2001 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Guilty But Insane Nominee

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Year Publication Title
Cover 2000 Stay Awake Stay Awake
Cover October 2000 Would You? Would You?

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October 2000 Plastic Jesus Plastic Jesus