![]() ![]() The Books feel incredibly relevant to modern horror so much so that reading them more than 30 years after their original publication is a little like looking at the original plans and blueprints for the building you’ve lived in for decades. Over the course of 30 stories published in six volumes, Barker unveiled a new geography of horror continents of the imagination, teeming with fantastical demonic life and grisly death, antiheros, soiled saviors, and (of course) the impossible pleasures of monstrous and magical sex. Still, even Stephen King himself viewed the publication of the Books as a watershed moment for horror: it was the Books of Blood that led King to famously call Clive Barker “the future of horror.” ![]() Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, King had published more than a dozen novels. When Clive Barker’s Books of Blood began their publication in 1984, it would be fair to say that Stephen King had already reinvented horror as a popular genre. ![]()
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