His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood

A small collection of dark, decadent horror stories from a writer celebrated for lush, transgressive prose and an unflinching gaze at desire and death. The title story follows two jaded young men in New Orleans, Louis and Howard, who chase ever more extreme sensations, looting absinthe and bones from old tombs in the belief that ultimate corruption might be a path to ultimate transcendence. Steeped in Southern Gothic atmosphere, the tales mingle eroticism, decay, occult ambition, and visceral horror, drawing on influences from Lovecraft to the aesthetics of decadence. Across its stories the collection explores forbidden hungers, the seductive pull of the macabre, and characters who pursue beauty and oblivion to ruinous ends. Richly sensory and morbidly elegant, it showcases the author's signature blend of glamour and grotesquerie, where pleasure and horror are inseparable.