The Books of Blood, Volume 1

De: Clive Barker

Narrado por: 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

Not Quite what I Expected

When I purchased this audiobook my intention was to listen to some stories that scared me. The first story, "The Book of Blood", did just that. It was unsettling.

My expectations were being met and the next story, "The Midnight Meat Train", started off in the same vein but ended on a weird note. A couple of the other stories were more humorous than horrifying but "Pig Blood Blues" and "In the Hills, The Cities" both hit all of the right horror notes.

What was evident from the start is that Clive Barker is a good writer and knows how to tell a story. The narrators all did a good job as well. There's nothing bad I can say about this omnibus other than if you are looking for a collection of stories that are all straight horror then you should look somewhere else. If you are looking for a mixture of straight horror and horror comedy then this collection is right for you.

Even though I was looking for straight horror I am happy that I read Mr. Barker's collection because they were all interesting stories.

Pure brilliance!

The stories themselves are interesting and emotionally touching. Of course we get the Clive Barker mood with it's suspence, horror and gore. Anyone who calls himself/herself a horror fan must experience "The Books Of Blood".

Entertaining, well-written, but very gory

The stories were good, the prose was elegant. But be forewarned, these are bloody, visceral, sexually explicit and unrelenting.

very weird

idk what to think of books of blood. its definitely not what i expected but im intrigued

Some odd short stories mixed with some good ones.

Some of the stories were pretty good then others were like "just get me through to the next story"!