Books of Blood Omnibus
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Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...
Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...
About this Author
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He is the author of The Books of Blood (in six volumes), The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, Cabal, The Great and Secret Show, Imajica, Everville and Sacrament as well as writing, directing and producing for the screen - his films include Hellraiser and Nightbreed. He presently lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
Clive Barker is an important, exciting and enormously talented writer. .. I literally could not read him alone. His stories are compulsively readable and original. He is an important, exciting and enormously talented writer ... What Barker does makes the rest of us look like we've been asleep for the last ten years--STEPHEN KING
Gushing gore and flying flesh ... read it with gloves on ... This one will have your fingers twitching if you don't watch out--TIME OUT
Clive Barker writes about horrors most of us would scarcely dare imagine ... He takes the horror story into places it has never gone before. He is one of the major writers of his generation--RAMSEY CAMPBELL
From the start it's clear that Barker is in a class by himself--LOCUS
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