Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink – and beyond.

"What Barker does makes the rest of us look like we've been asleep for the last ten years." – Stephen King

"He takes the horror story into places it has never gone before. He is one of the major horror writers of his generation." – Ramsey Campbell

"This one will have your fingers twitching if you don't watch out." – Time Out

"From the start it's clear that Barker is in a class by himself." – Locus

Contents:

  • Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Book of Blood
  • The Midnight Meat Train
  • The Yattering and Jack
  • Pig Blood Blues
  • Sex, Death and Starshine
  • In the Hills, the Cities
  • Dread
  • Hell's Event
  • Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament
  • The Skins of the Fathers
  • New Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • Son of Celluloid
  • Rawhead Rex
  • Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud
  • Scape-Goats
  • Human Remains
Published
1988
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