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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  ### [Copyright](contents.html#copy)
  
  
  Published by HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins _Publishers_ 2018
  
  
  Copyright © Annie Darling 2018
  
  
  Cover design © HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 2018
  
  
  Cover illustration © Carrie May
  
  
  Annie Darling asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  
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