![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two at first intend to victimize one another, but upon realizing their similar proclivities, instead begin a torrid affair based on sex and murder.Īfter learning that he is HIV-positive, writer Lucas Ransom reacts by rejecting all his former friends and breaking up with his teenage lover Tran. ![]() Seeking new victims, he instead meets Jay Byrne (based on Jeffrey Dahmer), a wealthy recluse who is also a serial killer, as well as a cannibal. Mistaken for dead by the authorities, he makes his way to New Orleans' French Quarter to start a new life. Andrew Compton, a convicted serial killer (based on serial killer Dennis Nilsen), escapes his UK prison cell in a self-induced cataleptic trance. The novel unfolds in alternating chapters from the points of view of the four main characters. Brite has described it as "a necrophilic, cannibalistic, serial killer love story that explores the seamy politics of victimhood and disease." Plot summary The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton, an English convicted homosexual serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac. Exquisite Corpse is a horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. ![]()
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