The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 by Stephen Jones

Author:Stephen Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780337135
Publisher: Constable & Robinson

POPPY Z. BRITE

The Devil of Delery Street

POPPY Z. BRITE’S FIRST NOVEL, Lost Souls, was a punk Goth vampire fable that introduced a number of recurring characters and themes in her fiction. Winner of the British Fantasy Society’s Best Newcomer Award in 1994, she followed her debut with the novels Drawing Blood, Exquisite Corpse and The Lazarus Heart.

Her short fiction has been collected in Wormwood (aka Swamp Foetus), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (a.k.a. Self-Made Man), The Devil You Know, Wrong Things (with Caitlín R. Kiernan) and Triads (with Christa Faust), while His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories was a compilation of four stories published as part of the “Penguin 60s” series. Guilty But Insane is a collection of non-fiction, and she also edited two volumes of the erotic vampire anthology Love in Vein.

In recent years she has moved away from horror, drawing on her extensive knowledge of the New Orleans restaurant scene (she has been married to a chef for fifteen years) for a series of novels and short stories about Rickey and G-man, two young New Orleans cooks who make a name for themselves by opening a restaurant whose menu is based entirely on liquor. Brite’s restaurant tales include the novels Liquor, Prime and The Value of X, and she is currently working on another book in the series.

“ ‘The Devil of Delery Street’ is a blend of my old and new subject matter,” the author explains, “since it is a ghost story but also a Stubbs family story (G-man, who appears as the baby Gary in this tale, is the youngest Stubbs child).

“It features my favourite New Orleans tradition, the St. Joseph’s altars that are set up every March 19th by the Sicilian Catholic community as a gesture of thanks to the saint for saving Sicily from famine.”

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