Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume One [L0139]

2020 PB Movie Tie-In reprint of the 1984 original, in nice clean condition. The inspiration for the 2020 Hulu original film. Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series. Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. Here then are the stories written on the Book of Blood. Read, if it pleases you, and learn.... This Volume includes: The Book of Blood • The Midnight Meat Train • The Yattering and Jack • Pig Blood Blues • Sex, Death and Starshine • In the Hills, the Cities

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Any fan of horror, short stories, splatterpunk, weird tales, or dark disturbing fiction must read these stories. You'll find plenty of twisted brilliance, horrifying incidents, hilarious predicaments, and just in general, great writing. Clive Barker was at the top of his game here, reaching into the deepest depths of his depraved imagination and delivering some truly original stories."; "These are retellings told in a horrific way, but that's okay when they're as rich, fresh and sinister as this and I like them all. Clive Barker has a way of expressing ideas in a vividly harrowing manner that compensates for his far out imagination."; "The best aspect of Books of Blood is the writing. The eloquence. The verve. His rendering of sentences, the deft touch, the lyrical flourishes that somehow manage to remain self-possessed, his wink of insight, his understanding of the human condition. The humanness of these stories. You can tell: he had fun writing these."