The Show That Smells - Softcover

McCormack, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550228552 ISBN 13: 9781550228557

Publisher: ECW Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen! It’s also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a devil who designs haute couture clothing! Elsa is a powerful Parisian dress designer, and a vampire. She wants to make Carrie look beautiful, smell beautiful and then she wants to eat her! Will Carrie survive as her slave? Will Jimmie be cured? Starring a host of Hollywood’s brightest stars, including Coco Chanel, Lon Chaney and the Carter Family, The Show That Smells is a thrilling tale of hillbillies, high fashion, and horror!

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About the Author

Derek McCormack is the author of The Haunted Hillbilly, a novel about Hank Williams, which was published by ECW Press in 2003. It was named a best book of the year” by both the Village Voice and the Globe and Mail, and was nominated for a Lambda Award in the Best Gay Fiction category. McCormack is also the author of the short-story collections Dark Rides and Wish Book, and of the non-fiction book Christmas Days, a history of Christmas in Canada. He regularly writes fashion articles for the National Post. He is currently creating a series of installations and mail-art projects for the Art Gallery of York University. He lives in Toronto.

From Publishers Weekly

Famed Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) stirs up sanguinary trouble as the Dracula of Dressmaking in McCormack's phantasmagorical novella, the latest entry in Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series. The action takes place inside a mirror maze at a carnival, where vampiric Elsa crows about her new perfume, Shocking! (the base note is blood), goads a desperate woman into selling her soul and commits dreadful wordplays ( 'Haute couture?' Schiaparelli says. 'Haute horreur!' ). Thank goodness for Coco Chanel, godmother of the little black dress and the cardigan jacket, not to mention part-time vampire-hunter, whose eponymous perfume works better than garlic on nasty old Elsa. But can the Vogue vampire really be vanquished? Throw the Carter family into the mix (Schiaparelli accuses them of carter-wauling), an undead Lon Chaney (The Man of a Thousand Faces) and preparations for two Satanic gay marriages, and you've got a recipe for a book that'll have you shaking your head in an odd but energizing combination of admiration and annoyance. This is a one-of-a-kind glimpse into a clever and devious mind. (July)
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Edition details

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1550228552
• ISBN 13: 9781550228557
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 108