Exquisite Corpse
After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls "the art of killing boys." He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn't imagined. Together they set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American...
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After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls "the art of killing boys." He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn't imagined. Together they set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, whom they cast as the perfect victim.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781439136409 (1439136408)
Publish date: August 20th 1997
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Erotica,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
Glbt,
Queer,
M M Romance,
Gay,
Dark
This book is hardcore in terms of violence and lust. The only comparable books I have read, ones as graphic and disturbing with vivid descriptions of dismemberment, disembowelment and bodily waste would be Frisk, by Dennis Cooper and In the Miso Soup, by Ryu Murakami. Exquisite Corpse is told in ...
This is nightmarish horror, lurid and grisly. As the author says...who amongst us doesn’t crane to look at an accident on the side of the rode, to see how bad the damage is? And so it is possible to get sucked into the morass. In ‘Exquisite Corpse’ bodily fluids flow freely and the time setting, the...
Just not my cuppa. I quickly lost interest.
Review to come. Ahh, this is one of those times when I wish a companion short story would've been incorporated into a main novel because it clarified a few things, but not nearly enough. It manages to stand on its own to a degree. This short story/novella was penned from Alex Kennedy's perspective ...
This book was recommended to me by several online friends. They were surprised I hadn't read it nor heard of the author. I began this book with high hopes. I read 2 pages of a preview on Amazon, and decided this would be a book I'd need to own. When I finally had it in my hands I was excited. My hop...