I highly recommend that you immediately purchase The Devil You Know by Poppy Z. Brite.

It's a really tight collection of short stories. Way way well written.

But best of all... she freaking thanked me on the acknowledgements page!!!!!!

One of my favorite authors thanked ME in one of her books. Wow wow wow.

Why did she thank me? Cuz a character in the story A Season in Heck relates a story about a past experience of his involving absinthe and emergency rooms... sound familiar? Heh.