At his least complicated best!

Clive Barker's Books of Blood give us a glimpse into the extraordinary imagination that went on to create the fantastic voyages his later books take us on.

Each of the short stories in these books is as different from one another as night is to day. We are treated to thrilling stories so unique and original (and scary) that Mr. Barker couldn't have helped but to go on to become a bestseller. This earlier work gives us a more simple writer than the complicated, polished Barker of later years but if anything that simplicity makes them the more potent. The stories would suit anyone who loves the horror genre without the fantasy element he adds to his later works. At this time he was writing to thrill, dipping into the darkest places that the human mind can go and doing it raw! Clive Barker hot and scary! Clive Barker possessed!