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The forbidden book clive barker6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The three-part collection is split into different forms of stories. It makes sense, then, that he would focus his stories on the most corporeal of all human acts: fornication and decay. His prose style is unflinching and brutal, often satirical, but always engrossing (emphasis on gross) in its exploration of the human body. Not so with Clive Barker, who broke open the pairing with his debut work, the BOOKS OF BLOOD.įirst published in 1984, these stories combine two things that often go together – sex and death – but does so in such a blatant, shameless, and powerful way that is so rarely seen. For the most part these crossovers are subtle and quiet. But history goes to show, these two genres often cross over, finding commonalities in each other that perhaps should not be uncovered. Logic would never place horror and erotica in the same field. ![]()
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