In the Flesh
by:
Clive Barker (author)
In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, the living and the dead make love; a palace is built to lure Satan back to earth; and a powerful aphrodisiac...
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In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671612702 (0671612700)
Publish date: January 1988
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Thriller,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Suspense,
Supernatural
Series: Books of Blood (#5)
This has been my first Clive Barker read, and I was very pleasantly surprised by it. From what I had heard of Barker before, I had assumed his work was in the gory blood porn genre. As such I was never very interested in trying out any of his work, since the more trashy kind of cheap thrills Stephen...
This book is a collection of 4 novelettes from "The New Master of Horror." (not so new anymore!)The title piece, "In the Flesh" deals with a petty criminal trapped in a jail cell with a first-time offender who's messing with more than he bargained for in the spirit of his executed murderer grandfath...
This was the American edition of the last tales of the Book of Blood. Barker managed to keep the quality high right to the end. After this, he concentrated on novels until he gravitated from horror to fantasy. I prefer these early works to anything later. There is a deep dark and very visceral feel ...
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