by Clive Barker
by Clive Barker This story was the basis for the movie, Nightbreed, which I've seen many times. Normally I don't like serial killer stories, but the emphasis that interested me is the 'monsters' of Midian. The story started out with the same premise as the movie; Boone is seeing a psychiatrist w...
The basis for the horror film Nightbreed, Clive Barker's short 1988 novel Cabal is typically Barkian in all the best ways. Off the page drips this author's trademark transcendent prose; poetic and striking and maddeningly puzzling, line for line Barker is one of the most talented writers in the busi...
This was an okay read, but not one of my favourites.
So much of this book is said in subtext, in the language that the characters speak secretly of themselves and others, that I see a lot of readers having completely missed the point or not even willing to formulate an opinion to take a stab at answering the questions they say the story raised for the...
Not bad... Confusing sometimes...
This book consists of the novella 'Cabal,' the story which the movie'Nightbreed' was based on, and four short stories: The Life Of Death, How Spoilers Bleed, Twilight At The Towers & The Last Illusion.'Cabal' shows Barker at the height of his obsession with grotesquesensuality. It begins with Boone,...
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