THE BOOKS OF BLOOD – 4

THE BOOKS OF BLOOD – 4

Clive Barker's sadistic take on horror in BOOKS OF BLOOD will make you shiver from head to toe. The stories contained will be tucked into a corner of your soul and stubbornly remain there. As much as you want to redeem yourself from his stories, from the moment you start reading them they have already captured a piece of your soul. He does, he can't escape. She is doomed to carry them with her forever.

The almost poetic and literary prose of his writing, its quality, the utterly convincing characters, his humor, the fact that what the author envisions is captured effortlessly in these texts. In a unique cinematic way, they addict the reader by making him surrender unflinchingly to his stories until the last word.

Each of the stories found in the six volumes of Books of Blood and the descriptions drawn from the author's imaginatively sick mind will fish out your well-buried and repressed fears from your subconscious. This is an epic collection of the macabre. Don't be fooled though. Even if you don't want to, from the moment you start reading you are forced to walk the dark paths of existence that the author generously offers. The worst part is that you will be martyred again and again on these paths.

No one can read a Clive Barker book just once.

I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker.
Stephen King

THE BOOKS OF BLOOD – 4

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. Writer of the plays. Weaving Cosmos, The Always Thief, Books of Blood, Cursed Game, The Inhuman Condition, In the Flesh, Cabal, Imagica, The Great Secret Spectacle, Aeipolis and The Ancient Mystery, he is considered one of the leading horror and fantasy novelists. In 1985 he was awarded the World Fantasy Award. Beyond his writing work, which, in addition to novels, includes short stories and screenplays.

He is also an illustrator, director and producer of theater and cinema. He has directed Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions, the Candyman series and the Hellraiser trilogy, among others. His paintings are regularly exhibited in Los Angeles and New York. His most recent works include the Oscar-winning Gods and monsters and an exhibition of erotic paintings and photographs entitled: The weird and the wicked. The author lives in Los Angeles.

The next ones will also be released by OKXY publications 5 volumes.

In 2019, his fascinating novel was released THE MOTHER OF VIOLENCE

Barker's writing is bold, but at the same time comfortable, full of life and without unnecessary pearls. The stories have absolutely no boundaries between fantasy and reality, humorous and brutal, or 'correct' and 'extreme'.  from neopolis.gr