A Journey into the Mind of Mr P
I have a confession to make before we begin; I have never read a Poppy Z. Brite book. I just never really came across his work in my browsing of bookstores or local libraries and so all my information is culled from reviews and synopses, if I have made any notable errors please feel free to correct me.Mr P is a self proclaimed writer and publisher of anthologies, in his latest submission call for one of those anthologies he writes:
"What will get you maimed by the editor (rejected, Any kind of vampire story where the vampire is of a Poppy Z. Brite type."
This is not the first time Mr P has made clear his disdain regarding the vampires that have appeared in her fiction, but just what is a Poppy Z. Brite vampire and why is Mr P so disgusted by them? That is what we shall attempt to answer here as we use his own words to take a brief voyage into the shallows of Mr P's mind. (I'm afraid we'll find no depths there so floatation devices are unnecessary.)
Let us start with the first question since it is the easiest to answer. From looking at synopses and reviews it is plain to see that Doc Brite writes about vampires whose thirst for life is as great as it is for blood. They accentuate their blood drinking with Babylonian feats of debauchery and indulge in liberal use of both alcohol and less legal stimulants, and it is from the former rather than the latter that Mr P's distaste is born I believe, though I suspect it is also tinged with professional jealousy.
Mr P regularly claims to be a Christian Conservative, though he apparently adopts only the most hateful of beliefs that hide behind that label, beliefs such as hatred of "the unnatural" homosexuals and transsexuals, and a disapproval of sex in general. You see in Doc Brite's works his vampires don't just hold to simple, monogamous, heterosexual couplings; they engage in as wide a range of sexual escapades as takes their fancy, something which apparently disgusts Mr P. Though the real question is whether that disgust is generated by the acts described, or by his reaction to them.
- All curse and hate words were censored at my decision, otherwise Mr P's words were not edited.
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08/16/2009
(Poppy Z Brite is a female)
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12/05/2008
Well, Doc, you did edit LOVE IN VEIN and LOVE IN VEIN II. Which is why some people think you're the Authority on All Things Vampire.
It seems because I set it to display only I will be able to edit it. I want to get another article or two up before I do it though so any potential downtime for this one after the edit should be reduced but I'll correct it as soon as I'm able.
Thank you for the correction, unfortunately AC doesn't really have a way to edit the article once it's up that I can see, but I'll take a closer look when I get up in the morning and hopefully be able to make that clearer. It does sound like quite an interesting concept for the vampires though I have to say, so I'll check the local library next time I'm in and see if I can get a copy to read.
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12/03/2008
Er, in case you didn't figure it out, the above comment was from me.
-- Poppy Z. Brite
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12/03/2008
Hi! I'm flattered and all, but despite Nikki's obsession with the vampire buttsex in my novel LOST SOULS, I'm not actually a "vampire writer" or even much of a vampire fan. LOST SOULS was published in 1992, and it's the only piece of fiction I have written about them. In case you or your readers are mildly curious, the vamps in LOST SOULS are not undead, but rather a separate race that can mate with humans, an idea that owes a debt to George R.R. Martin's fine vampire novel FEVRE DREAM.
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