Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3

By Clive Barker,

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1 author picked Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When I first read this compendium edition collecting the three volumes of Barker’s ground-breaking debut short-story collections my interest in horror and dark fantasy was only recently reignited. Stories like “Fear” and “In the Hills, The Cities” (one of my favorite short stories of all time) opened my mind to the possibilities of fear and phantasmagoria that one could achieve in a brief span of time.

Barker’s prose and characters are lurid, provocative, and unashamed of who/what they are. Not only was he taking risks in crafting these stories, he was also inviting subsequent generations of writers to express themselves…

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