The Books Of Blood: All Three Volumes Complete & Unabridged
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Author: Clive Barker
Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
1st Dorset Edition (1991)
Dorset Press
©1988 Clive Barker
CAB Comment––This is the bloody book that started it all, launching the cult of author, illustrator, and filmmaker Clive Barker. I’ve been a huge fan of Clive Barker since I read the “Midnight Meat Train” (in Volume I of the “Books Of Blood”) very late one night during the time I was working on the first draft of my own horror novel “Puzzleman”. I was blown away by Barker’s poetry in carnage, which was exactly the kind of thing I was trying to do with “Puzzleman”. Also, I wanted the grim and gore to have genuine motivation, not pure gratuitous splatter for the sake of splatter. Barker’s stories demonstrated that this could be done very effectively. With an introduction by horror master Ramsey Campbell, this collection of all first three volumes of Barker’s “Books Of Blood” is a must-have for any horror fan who craves intelligence and art in their horror.
“The Books Of Blood: All Three Volumes Complete & Unabridged”––Amazon Synopsis:
“The most provocative tales of terror ever published.”—The Washington Post
“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red...
“With the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. He was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror,” and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. It is his powerful writing style and arresting imagery that have made Books of Blood a classic—and Clive Barker a cult phenomenon.”
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