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The Inhuman Condition
The Inhuman Condition
Author: Clive Barker
A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and del...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743417341
ISBN-10: 0743417348
Publication Date: 2/27/2001
Pages: 192
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 26 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 2
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Hellraiser avatar reviewed The Inhuman Condition on + 110 more book reviews
I absolutely loved this collection from Barker! I wish he'd get away from fantasy and go back to horror. This collection proves that he is a major asset to the horror story loving community. The Body Politic is a great story in this book. It is about a man's hands having a "mind" of their own. Mr. Barker writes with such vivid detail that you feel like you are experiencing what the characters are.
reviewed The Inhuman Condition on + 71 more book reviews
Clive Barker, the most exciting new master of horror today, unleashes a world of powerful eroticism, violence and uncontrolled desires. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels darn hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel, the living and the dead make love; a palace is built to lure Satan back to earth; and a powerful aphrodisiac creates ghastly sexual urgings.
Nightcrawler avatar reviewed The Inhuman Condition on + 207 more book reviews
Great book. All the stories were such a pleasure to read and so well done.
ChokolatteJedi avatar reviewed The Inhuman Condition on + 39 more book reviews
The back cover blurb and the reviews by the likes of Steven King made me expect a lot from this book. Unfortunately it failed to deliver. The stories were well written, and the ideas were mostly unique, but they did not evoke the fear and horror that I was expecting - I actually laughed my way through two of them.

An interesting read, but not the book to chose if you want something really terrifying.


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