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Il Cimitero dei Vivi

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Dalla Regina dello Splatterpunk, una selezione dei suoi racconti piu celebri, molti dei quali tradotti in Italiano per la prima volta: La Palude delle Lanterne (Lantern Marsh, 2000); La Sesta Sentinella (The Sixth Sentinel, 1992); Calcutta, Signora delle Impudenze (Calcutta Lord of Nerves, 1992); Mussolini e il Jazz dell'Uomo con l'Ascia (Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz, 1995); La sua bocca sapra di assenzio (His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, 1990); Il Cuore di New Orleans (The Heart of New Orleans, 2002); Risvegli (Self-Made Man, 1996). Tra spettri, fantasmi, voodoo, cannibali, creature, cimiteri e cadaveri, amanti e musei di morte che animano la sua dark New Orleans spesso protagonista, scenario e madre delle storie, l'autrice, vero e proprio cult del genere, canta il suo innovativo, malinconico, brutale e poetico horror dal sapore di assenzio, dipingendolo con decadente e magnetico splendore. Traduzioni di Francesca Noto e Alessandro Manzetti. Illustrazione di copertina di Giampaolo Frizzi"

218 pages, Paperback

Published October 9, 2016

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Poppy Z. Brite

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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite, now going by Billy Martin) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about his gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. He self-identifies almost completely as a homosexual male rather than female, and as of 2011 has started taking testosterone injections. His male name is Billy Martin.

He lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia prior to returning to New Orleans in 1993. He loves UNC basketball and is a sometime season ticket holder for the NBA, but he saves his greatest affection for his hometown football team, the New Orleans Saints.

Brite and husband Chris DeBarr, a chef, run a de facto cat rescue and have, at any given time, between fifteen and twenty cats. Photos of the various felines are available on the "Cats" page of Brite's website. They have been known to have a few dogs and perhaps a snake as well in the menagerie. They are no longer together.

During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Brite at first opted to stay at home, but he eventually abandoned New Orleans and his cats and relocated 80 miles away to his mother's home in Mississippi. He used his blog to update his fans regarding the situation, including the unknown status of his house and many of his pets, and in October 2005 became one of the first 70,000 New Orleanians to begin repopulating the city.

In the following months, Brite has been an outspoken and sometimes harsh critic of those who are leaving New Orleans for good. He was quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere as saying, in reference to those considering leaving, "If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life."

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November 9, 2016
Che goduria la scrittura di questa autrice fenomenale!!! Quando l'horror diventa poesia!!!
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August 20, 2025
Una manciata di racconti horror di buona fattura, scritti con mano esperta, che nei momenti migliori mi hanno ricordato l'approccio surreale del primo Barker, in cui vivi e morti si trovano spesso ad agire senza che la differenza tra loro sia molto più di una semplice questione di prospettiva. Racconti resi peculiari però dall'humus culturale di New Orleans (città in cui l'autrice, ora autore, ambienta molte delle sue storie, oltre a quelle comprese in questa raccolta) e della Louisiana, tra riti voodoo, bayou inconquistati e melanconia blues.
Leggerò sicuramente altro.
61 reviews2 followers
January 9, 2017
Quello che scrive Poppy Z Brite è definibile solo con un termine: umido.
La sensazione di umido, sporco, nero che è propria delle paludi, entra nelle ossa e non ti molla.
Legions continua a confermarsi il top di gamma come editore di genere horror.
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