Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three by Clive Barker

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Author: Clive Barker
Release date: October, 1998
Media: Paperback
ISBN: 0425165582

A Bazaar of the Bizare

Barker is a very different horror-writer, than the more commercial succesful writers like King or Koontz. His writing is much more unnerving and surreal than his more popular colleagues.
His work is another world, a world of grotesque and twisted minds and bodies, a world of incredible depravity and senseles pleasure. It is certainly an aquired taste, and not for everyone. To some people it is simply too much.
The Books of Blood vol. 1-3 covers a wide range of depravity from ritual murder over cannibalism and to vengeful spirits.

But the grotesque imagery is also what is attractive about the book. Like a carwreck, you want to turn away, but you can't.

I think I can best describe barker as a mix between H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar A. Poe. A very, very unsettling combination to be sure. Books of Blood is definately not recomended for the faint of heart or as a bedtime story - an Amazon customer review

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