The brief format removes the need for comforting explanations and we rarely get close enough to a character to grow emotionally attached before a gruesome death. I would soon learn that King saves some of his darkest work for short story collections. The table of contents included evocative but familiar titles like “Sometimes They Come Back” and “Children of the Corn” and most of the stories were short, clocking in around 10-20 pages. At just 326 pages, it seemed more manageable than the 1,000 page epics I would later fall in love with. When I finally gathered the courage to read one, I chose Night Shift. I grew up staring in awe at my dad’s paperbacks lining a high shelf and pondered the haunting images emblazoned on their spines: a hand covered with eyes and bandages ( Night Shift ) green claws poking through a sewer grate ( It ) a crow man fighting a man I assumed to be Luke Skywalker ( The Stand ).
Like many Stephen King fans, I found the Master of Horror as a child. You can grab your copy for just $17 from Amazon today.Ī deluxe new edition of the full Books of Blood collection is being released in Brazil. This Volume includes: “ The Book of Blood” Here then are the stories written on the Book of Blood. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. “Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series.”
The book collects together all of Barker’s original “Volume One” tales, and features the film’s poster art on the cover.
Ahead of the premiere of Hulu’s Books of Blood film adaptation on October 7, Berkley has just re-released Clive Barker‘s Books of Blood: Volume One this week, a 304-page book whipped up as a tie-in edition with the upcoming Hulu movie.
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