“EVERYBODY IS A BOOK OF BLOOD; WHEREVER WE’RE OPENED, WE’RE RED.” — Clive Barker
Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut – his coming out to the world – in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to … is proud to present Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood” in digital for the first time.
The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker’s signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty. The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come.
This first volume contains the short stories : “The Book of Blood,” “The Midnight Meat Train,” “The Yattering and Jack,” “Sex, Death, and Starshine,” and “In the Hills, the Cities,” as well as the original introduction to volumes one, two, and three by Ramsey Campbell, and a new introduction by author David Niall Wilson.
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This is Clive Barker at his best. Original, creative, and thought provoking stories that are in a class by themselves. I always say that Stephen King often accels at longer, drawn out stories, but that Clive Barker has much better ideas. At least, before he sank into the depths of heroin.
This, however, is a perfect example of him at his prime.
Wow so what can I say about this book ? I found it by chance when I was working at Astroworld in Houston Texas in the late 1980s someone had left it behind. I devoured this book and all of them afterwards. This is the book that launched my love of reading it is now 2016 and I still have that copy of this book 🙂 the stories are great, gruesome …