Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.No one who encounters them is ever likely to forget their impact.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close These are narratives that are built to last. As disturbing and compelling as they were three decades ago, the stories and novellas gathered here are among the preeminent achievements of late 20th century horror fiction. These visions are accompanied, fittingly enough, by the author’s own original artwork, which serves as the perfect complement to these singular-and immensely entertaining-creations. The result is a gigantic treasure trove of unique, often darkly beautiful visions. These are just a few of the extravagant pleasures waiting within these pages. And in the masterful “Rawhead Rex,” a giant, blatantly phallic entity terrorizes a rural English community. “The Forbidden,” which inspired the classic horror film Candyman, concerns a graduate student who uncovers the grim secret hidden in a rundown housing project. “The Yattering and Jack” presents a comic tour-de-force about the relationship between a minor demon and the man he so unsuccessfully haunts. In the World Fantasy Award-winning “Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament,” a bored and suicidal housewife discovers a lethal capacity to transform the human body.
“Son of Celluloid” features a sentient tumor that comes to astonishing life in a nearly deserted cinema. In “The Body Politic,” a pair of severed hands leads a revolution unlike any you have ever imagined. In between these narrative bookends, Barker offers us a series of unforgettable images. The tour begins with “The Midnight Meat Train,” one of the most extraordinary urban horror stories ever written, and ends with the novella “The Last Illusion,” the basis for Barker’s 1995 film, Lord of Illusions. He then proceeds to take us on a tour of some of those hidden highways. “The dead have highways,” Barker tells us in the frame tale that begins this collection. Now, some thirty years after their initial release, The Books of Blood has assumed the status of an undisputed classic.
The publication, one year later, of the final three volumes merely strengthened that initial impression. When the first three volumes of The Books of Blood appeared in 1984, it was immediately apparent that a writer of extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented gifts had emerged, seemingly out of nowhere. If you have already bought a set, you're not eligibe to order another.
Note: There is a limit of one Signed, Limited Edition set per customer, household, or plane of existance. Dust jacket illustrations by Clive Barker
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