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With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this tour de force collection that rivals the dark masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. Read him. And rediscover the true meaning of fear.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Books of Blood) - (1984) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• Books of Blood, Volume I - [Books of Blood - 1] - (1984) - collection
• The Book of Blood - (1984) - short story
• The Midnight Meat Train - (1984) - novelette
• The Yattering and Jack - (1984) - novelette
• Pig Blood Blues - (1984) - novelette
• Sex, Death and Starshine - (1984) - novelette
• In the Hills, the Cities - (1984) - novelette
• Books of Blood, Volume II - [Books of Blood - 2] - (1984) - collection
• Dread - (1984) - novelette
• Hell's Event - (1984) - novelette
• Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament - (1984) - novelette
• The Skins of the Fathers - (1984) - novelette
• New Murders in the Rue Morgue - (1984) - novelette
• Books of Blood, Volume III - [Books of Blood - 3] - (1984) - collection
• Son of Celluloid - (1984) - novelette
• Rawhead Rex - (1984) - novelette
• Confession of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - (1984) - novelette
• Scape-Goats - (1984) - novelette
• Human Remains - (1984) - novelette

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned...

From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones...

Table of Contents:

• Books of Blood, Volume IV - [Books of Blood - 4] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Body Politic - (1985) - novelette
• 34 - The Inhuman Condition - (1985) - novelette
• 68 - Revelations - (1985) - novella
• 108 - Down, Satan! - (1985) - short story
• 113 - The Age of Desire - (1985) - novella
• Books of Blood, Volume V - [Books of Blood - 5] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Forbidden - (1985) - novelette
• 38 - The Madonna - (1985) - novelette
• 76 - Babel's Children - (1985) - novelette
• 103 - In the Flesh - (1985) - novella
• Books of Blood, Volume VI - [Books of Blood - 6] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Life of Death - (1985) - novelette
• 35 - How Spoilers Bleed - (1985) - novelette
• 66 - Twilight at the Towers - (1985) - novelette
• 97 - The Last Illusion - (1985) - novella
• 149 - The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street - (1985) - short story