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Books of Blood

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Horror Reviews 1986

Horror Movie Review: Rawhead Rex (1986)

17/01/201816/01/2018 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Cora Venus Lunny, David Dukes, Donal McCann, horror, Horror Movie, Horror Movie Review, Kelly Piper, Monster, Niall Toibin, Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex is a short story from the master of horror, Clive Barker that appeared in Volume 3 of his Books of Blood series. It was turned into a 90-minute movie in 1986.

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Horror Book Reviews

Horror Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels (Clive Barker)

28/10/201625/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Book Reviews, Books, Books of Blood, Cenobites, Clive Barker, Doug Bradley, Gory, Harry D'Amour, hell, Hellraiser, Horror Book, Horror Book Reviews, lucifer, Magic, Magicians, Pinhead, The Cenobite Order, The Hellbound Heart, The Scarlet Gospels, Violent

Clive Barker is a legend of horror but his literary work is often overlooked in favour of his movies. Part

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Horror Reviews 2009

Horror Movie Review: Book of Blood (2009)

14/07/201622/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Book of Blood, Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Highways, horror, Intersections, Jonas Armstrong, Mary, On Jerusalem Street (a postscript), Reg, Simon, Skin, The Dead, Wyburd

Clive Barker’s Books of Blood are six volumes of short stories framed by a prologue called ‘Book of Blood’ and

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Horror Book Reviews

Horror Book Review: Books of Blood – Volume Six (Clive Barker)

02/06/201625/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Book of Blood, Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Gore, horror, How Spoilers Bleed, Lords of Illusion, On Jerusalem Street (a postscript), Short Stories, The Last Illusion, The Life of Death, Twilight at the Towers, Violence, Volume Six

The final Books of Blood by Clive Barker ends a series of short stories that has been mostly incredible. Filled

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Horror Book Review: Books of Blood – Volume Five (Clive Barker)

24/05/201625/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Babel's Children, Books of Blood, Candyman, Cleve, Clive Barker, Games, Garvey, Helen, In The Flesh, Jerry, Prison, Sweets for the Sweet, Tait, The Forbidden, The Madonna, Volume Five

Volume 5 opens with one of Barkers best works, so good that it was turned into a full length movie

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Horror Book Reviews

Horror Book Review: Books of Blood – Volume Four (Clive Barker)

21/05/201625/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Books, Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Down Satan, horror, Revelations, Short Stories, The Age of Desire, The Body Politic, The Inhuman Condition, Volume Four

It shows the scale of Clive Barker’s imagination that this is Volume 4 of his Books of Blood & there

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Horror Book Reviews

Horror Book Review: Books of Blood – Volume Three (Clive Barker)

17/05/201625/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud, horror, Human Remains, Rawhead Rex, Ronnie Glass, Scape-Goats, Son of Celluloid, Volume Three

Books of Blood: Volume 3 is five short stories of extreme violence & gore all with the distinctive descriptive style

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Horror Book Reviews

Horror Book Review: Books of Blood – Volume 2 (Clive Barker)

10/05/201626/03/2017 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Books of Blood, Clive Barker, Dread, Edgar Allan Poe, Gore, hell, Hell's Event, Jacqueline Ess, Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament, New Murders in the Rue Morgue, satan, Sex, Short Stories, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Skins of the Father, Violence, Volume 2

The second volume of short stories from one of the masters of horrors doesn’t quite manage to hit the heights

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