Books of Blood: Volumes 4-6

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From the brilliant Word Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones...

"I literally could not read him alone. His stories are compulsively readable and original. He is an important, exciting and enormously talented writer." – Stephen King

"Clive Barker writes about horrors most of us would scarcely dare imagine." – Ramsey Campbell

"Barker's visions are at one turn horrifyingly stomach-wrenching and at the next flickering with brilliant invention that leaves the reader shaking, not with fear but with wonder." – Sounds

"Gushing gore and flying flesh... read it with gloves on." – Time Out

"As provocative, powerful and well crafted as any fiction being written today." – Fantasy Review

"Clive Barker is a original and prodigiously talented writer... not to be missed." – Fangoria

Contents:

  • The Body Politic
  • The Inhuman Condition
  • Revelations
  • Down, Satan!
  • The Age Of Desire
  • The Forbidden
  • The Madonna
  • Babel's Children
  • In The Flesh
  • The Life of Death
  • How Spoilers Bleed
  • Twilight At The Towers
  • The Last Illusion
  • On Jerusalem Street (a postscript)
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Clive Barker is a name synonymous with boundary-pushing imagination and a mastery of blending horror with the fantastical. From his early days as a writer and artist in England, Barker's creative journey has been one marked by daring narratives that explore the darkest corners of the human psyche while celebrating the…

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