![]() “The Book of Blood” starts the series off and acts somewhat as a frame story, with a pyschic researcher employing a medium to study a haunted house. ![]() It’s surprising that such brutal things can be packed into such small packages. I’m not kidding when I say they’re short each one contains four to six stories and is some 200 pages long. ![]() The Books of Blood were his first mainstream success, short-fiction collections that caused Barker to skyrocket in popularity originally three short anthologies were planned, though by the end the series consisted of six volumes. Their freight, the wandering dead, can be glimpsed when the heart is close to bursting, and sights that should be hidden come plainly into view.Ĭlive Barker exploded onto the 1980s horror scene with force and vigor he quickly earned a reputation in the field and was heavily endorsed by popular authors, including Stephen King, who famously blurbed, “I have seen the future of horror, and it is named Clive Barker.” Things didn’t quite work out that way-most of Barker’s work in the last fifteen years has been fantasy, in particular his Abarat series for young adults-though he does return to horror and dark fantasy on occasion. Their thrum and throb can be heard in the broken places of the world, through cracks made by acts of cruelty, violence and depravity. ![]() They run, unerring lines of ghost-trains, of dream-carriages, across the wasteland behind our lives, bearing an endless traffic of departed souls. ![]()
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