However, there is no denying that there is something compelling and erotic about evil and perversion let loose. It clearly is not everyone’s cup of tea and, in fact, some readers may find it offensive. The novel is graphic and violent just like the characters that are showcased in it. It is a night that will change the lives of the survivors forever.ĮXQUISITE CORPSE is a dark, cult like novel that merges the darkest world of horror with the ritualistic aspects of murder. These four men’s lives converge on a dark and dangerous night that becomes an exploration into a world of perverted love, murder, and death. Luke knows he has a limited time left on this planet and plans to cause as much havoc as possible on a world that he feels has turned its back on the suffering of AIDs victims.

Tran loved Luke deeply, but left the man when he tried to deliberately infest him with his HIV positive blood.

Both men now fixate on Tran, an Asiatic-American man who left home after his father discovered the love letters addressed to him by Luke, his ex-lover. Jay takes Andrew’s delight in killing one step further by turning the ritualistic slayings of debauched boys into an “art” form by using techniques Andrew never even dreamed of employing. Once there, Andrew joins forces with the New Orleans dilettante Jay Byrne. He travels to America using his latest victim’s passport. Andrew quickly lures an American tourist he “picked up” in a bar into a public loo, kills the man, and steals his identity. After five years in near solitary confinement, Andrew understood that he needed to once again act out his own dark desires. Simon & Schuster, August 1996, $21.00, 240 pp.Īndrew Compton, England’s most notorious serial killer since Jack The Ripper, had killed, sodomized, and dismembered twenty-three young men by the time he was finally apprehended at the age of twenty-eight. Review by Harriet Klausner, submitted on

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