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.
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.
Great book. All the stories were such a pleasure to read and so well done.
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.
An interesting read, but not the book to chose if you want something really terrifying.
