![]() Martin hopes to eventually write three more novels in the Liquor series, tentatively titled Dead Shrimp Blues, Hurricane Stew, and Double Shot. The Value of X (2002) depicts the beginning of the careers of the protagonists of the Liquor series-Gary "G-Man" Stubbs and John "Rickey" Rickey other stories, including several in his most recent collection The Devil You Know (2003) and the novella D*U*C*K, chronicle events in the lives of the extended Stubbs family, a Catholic clan whose roots are sunk deep in the traditional culture of New Orleans. The critically acclaimed Liquor novels- Liquor (2004), Prime (2005), and Soul Kitchen (2006)-are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world. ![]() In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Martin moved away from horror fiction and gothic themes while still writing about gay characters. Martin wrote Courtney Love: The Real Story (1997), a biography of singer Courtney Love that was officially "unauthorized", but he acknowledged that the work was done at Love's suggestion and with her cooperation, including access to Love's personal journal and letters. I could rattle off ten or twenty more easily they're all in there somewhere." ![]() Burroughs, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, Kathe Koja, Dennis Cooper, Dorothy Parker, Dylan Thomas, Harlan Ellison, Peter Straub, Paul Theroux, Baudelaire, Poe, Lovecraft, John Lennon. Answering a follow-up question about his literary influences, he also included " Bradbury, Nabokov, W.S. In a 1998 interview, in response to a comment that "Growing up in the American South as a writer", Martin mentioned that Southern writers Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner also influenced his writing. His "Calcutta: Lord of Nerves" was selected to represent the year 1992 in the story anthology The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Kiernan 2001), and The Devil You Know (2003). Some of Martin's better known novels include Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993), and the controversial serial killer novel Exquisite Corpse (1996) he has also released the short fiction collections Wormwood (originally published as Swamp Foetus 1993), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published as Self-Made Man 1998), Wrong Things (with Caitlin R. His trademarks include featuring gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events. Martin is best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories.
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