Pros: Dazzling imagery. Cons: Terrifying and bestial imagery.
A number of years ago, I took a road less traveled in my local bookstore, and discovered the bizarre, brilliant and troubling world of English fantastical horror author, Clive Barker.
Pros: Barker has an electric imagination Cons: Something seems to have short-circuited
I can imagine Clive Barker falling asleep on the sofa one night while watching Sunset Boulevard, then waking in the wee hours halfway through a showing of Splatter Cinema Showcase and getting a very bright idea for his next...
Pros: seductive and nightmarish Cons: loosely plotted; overblown climax
Years ago, back in my college days, I met a science-fiction writer. He came to this class I was taking, to discuss a book of his that we were assigned to read. The book, Beyond Heaven's River wasn't a very good one, I'm afraid, and the author,...
Pros: What a story! It's impossible not to be caught up in it. Cons: Should have ended about 100 pages before it did.
Clive Barker is one of my favorite horror authors, besides Stephen King. And like Stephen King, he is unfairly branded as "merely" a horror writer, when in reality he is extremely gifted at blending many different genres and constantly suprising us....
Pros: Barker's powerful imagination is in full force Cons: The very graphic nature of that imagination may be off-putting.
Clive Barker is a writer who never takes the subtle way out. It's a cliche that sometimes the scariest things are those things which are only hinted it or suggested (shower scene in PSYCHO is often trotted out as an example). Barker seems to believe that ...
Clive Barker is a true literary master whose prose flows like poetry. When you add to this that he is also a master at delving into the deepest recesses of our psyche and bringing all of our greatest fears and most forbidden fantasies out into the light...
Pros: A fine book, with fine charcters, with an unexpectedly emotional ending... Cons: Don't let kiddies read this unless you want them asking about unspeakable sexual depravity...
When I was little, I would run and cower from anything that was scary. Scary movies, scary places, scary people, scary anything. I'd hide in the corner of the dining room at my house while the rest of my family sat in the living room watching the ...
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