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Overview: Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red." For those who only know Clive Barker through his long multigenre novels, this one-volume edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome chance to acquire the 16 remarkable horror short stories with which he kicked off his career. For those who already know these tales, the poignant introduction is a window on the creator’s mind. Reflecting back after 14 years, Barker writes:
I look at these pieces and I don’t think the man who wrote them is alive in me anymore…. We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we’re healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
Reading these stories over, I feel a little of both. Some of the simple energies that made these words flow through my pen–that made the phrases felicitous and the ideas sing–have gone. I lost their maker a long time ago.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Volume One – These enthusiastic tales are not ashamed of visceral horror, of blood splashing freely across the page: "The Midnight Meat Train," a grisly subway tale that surprises you with one twist after another; "The Yattering and Jack," about a hilarious demon who possesses a Christmas turkey; "In the Hills, the Cities," an unusual example of an original horror premise; "Dread," a harrowing non-supernatural tale about being forced to realize your worst nightmare; "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament," about a woman who kills men with her mind. Some of the tales are more successful than others, but all are distinguished by strikingly beautiful images of evil and destruction. No horror library is complete without them.
Volume Two – To a surgeon, cutting into the human body is an art. Muscle and flesh are his canvas, the scalpel his tool. He studies the composition of the organs — their balance and form — the structure of the bones and network of blood vessels. He makes his incision, cutting, slicing with loving care. — Clive Barker is another type of surgeon. — He understands the human body too. He knows how the nerves send impulses to a riveted brain. And he knows how the hot blood surges through veins and arteries under a thin membrane of skin.
And then gushes out…
Five stories of horror and intrigue include, "Dread," "Hell’s Event," "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament," "The Skins of the Fathers," and "New Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Volume Three – This third volume contains the short stories : "Son of Celluloid," "Rawhead Rex," "Confessions of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud," "Scape-Goats," and "Human Remains," as well as a new introduction by author Chet Williamson.
Volume Four – This fourth volume contains the short stories : "The Inhuman Condition," "The Body Politic," "Revelations," "Down, Satan," and "The Age of Desire," as well as a new introduction by author Al Sarrantonio.
Volume Five – This fifth volume contains the short stories : "In the Flesh," "The Forbidden," "The Madonna," "Babel’s Children," as well as a new introduction by author Joe R. Lansdale.
Volume Six – In this, the sixth and final volume of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, with a new introduction by Mark Miller, five new stories of darkness unleashed.
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