title: Exquisite Corpse: A Novel
author:  Poppy Z. Brite 
description: You've probably heard that this love story about two cannibalistic serial killers (loosely modeled after Dennis Nilsen and Jeffrey Dahmer) is over the top. You've been warned about the lovingly meticulous descriptions of murder and necrophilia. But the novel also features a keen look at the AIDS plague, in a setting almost worth dying for: Brite's doomed aesthetes dance in a sweet, heady New Orleans of milky coffee and beignets, alligators, Billy Holiday tunes, scented candles, pirate radio, swamp French, andouille sausage and one bar for every 175 people. And the structure is the tightest of Brite's books so far.
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, businesses, and
  incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a
  fictitious manner. Any similarity to events or locales or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  First US edition February 2020
  
  Copyright © 2020 by [Cheryl Bradshaw](http://www.cherylbradshaw.com/)
  
  Cover Design Copyright 2020 © [Indie Designz](http://www.indiedesignz.com/)
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 9798604171240
  
  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted, given
  away or re-sold in any form, or by any means whatsoever (electronic,
  mechanical, etc.) without the prior written permission and consent of the
  author. Thank you for being respectful of the hard work of the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_004.html#filepos4631)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_005.html#filepos13442)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](in