Helpful Score: 1
Don't read it at night!
Helpful Score: 1
A nice introduction to Clive Barker and some unsettling horror.
Helpful Score: 1
this was the first book by Clive Barker I read. I picked it up by a friends suggestion after complaining that nothing I've read lately was any good. So I sat down after she gave me Books of Blood Vol. 1
To be honest I'm not a short story kind of person and growing up on Stephen King and Poe and Lovecraft I was wondering how Barker would measure up. Boy was I in for a surprise! From page 1 I was obsessed with this book, I couldn't book down, I took it to work and would sneak off to the bathroom just to read a page or two when I couldn't stand my own impatience to find out what happened.
The stories are original, creepy in a it gets under your skin kind of way, makes you wonder about people who seem harmless (esp. after the Midnight Meat Train). I read well into the night then laid awake thinking about the stories like Pig Blood Blues and Sex Death and Starshine.
***** 5 star review from me!!
To be honest I'm not a short story kind of person and growing up on Stephen King and Poe and Lovecraft I was wondering how Barker would measure up. Boy was I in for a surprise! From page 1 I was obsessed with this book, I couldn't book down, I took it to work and would sneak off to the bathroom just to read a page or two when I couldn't stand my own impatience to find out what happened.
The stories are original, creepy in a it gets under your skin kind of way, makes you wonder about people who seem harmless (esp. after the Midnight Meat Train). I read well into the night then laid awake thinking about the stories like Pig Blood Blues and Sex Death and Starshine.
***** 5 star review from me!!
