The Books of Blood, Volume 1

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Simon Vance, Dick Hill, Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer, Chet Williamson, Chris Patton

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.

Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.

The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."

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this is awesome!!

I live Barker, and this reading was freaking great! the inflections from each narrator fit the story perfectly. I can't recommend this audiobook enough!!

Fantastic!

Every story was fantastic and the narrators did a great job capturing the essence of each! Bravo!

WICKED !

Mr Barker has delivered yet again another masterpiece of Science fiction/ Horror.
Books of Blood #1 was great.
can't wait to read the rest.

Nice Collection of Short Stories

I didn't realize Midnight Meat Train was Clive Barker story! Great collection of horror stories. Very diverse.

memorable

fun listen some seriously bizarre pieces, esp liked the lady one. otherworldly and captivating

I mostly liked these... I LOVED the last story!

Clive Barker delivers a solid anthology.

The voice actors are fantastic!

“In the Hills, the Cities” is unlike anything I've ever imagined... worth it for this story, alone!

Good Books except In the hills, the cities

Overall the books within this book were interesting and written well. The last book In the Hills, the Cities has to be the dumbest book I’ve listened to. I don’t know if the book was symbolic or just used metaphors but it was dumb and super hard to get through. I can usually make my way through even the worst of stories but this one topped them all and I just wanted it to end.

A solid collection of skin crawling stories

This was a fun little read. Some of the stories were excellent. Some just good, but they all showed the kind of depraved creativity that separates the true horror pros from the amateurs. A nice mix of atmosphere horror and some gore.

consistently great

Barker's work is great as always. some really great gems in this book. hope they do another books of blood movie.

Clive Barker has skills.

This is a seriously good short story anthology tied together in an interesting way. Barker shows a unique versatility and comes up with truly imaginative stuff.
The narrators were well selected and really deliver. I can't wait to listen to the other Books of Blood.