Those that’ve made streaming deals are making the most of things, but as far as physical rentals go, things’ll start picking up the pace as 2023 begins. Redbox remains a bit slow to add new films to its selections, mostly because studios have been equally slow as the theaters have come back into action. No horror library is complete without them.The best movies on Redbox include many films of Paste’s Best Movies of 20. Some of the tales are more successful than others, but all are distinguished by strikingly beautiful images of evil and destruction. These enthusiastic tales are not ashamed of visceral horror, of blood splashing freely across the page: 'The Midnight Meat Train,' a grisly subway tale that surprises you with one twist after another 'The Yattering and Jack,' about a hilarious demon who possesses a Christmas turkey 'In the Hills, the Cities,' an unusual example of an original horror premise 'Dread,' a harrowing non-supernatural tale about being forced to realize your worst nightmare 'Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament,' about a woman who kills men with her mind. Some of the simple energies that made these words flow through my pen-that made the phrases felicitous and the ideas sing-have gone. Reading these stories over, I feel a little of both. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. We are all our own graveyards I believe we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. Reflecting back after 14 years, Barker writes: I look at these pieces and I don't think the man who wrote them is alive in me anymore. For those who already know these tales, the poignant introduction is a window on the creator's mind.

'Everybody is a book of blood wherever we're opened, we're red.' For those who only know Clive Barker through his long multigenre novels, this one-volume edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome chance to acquire the 16 remarkable horror short stories with which he kicked off his career.

Now housed in an HQ protective mylar.īook has some heavy foxing to text block - otherwise very good and reads nicely.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.ĭust jacket is in excellent condition some light shelf / edge wear. The Books of Blood by Clive Barker SECOND EDITION THE DORSET PRESS

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