“What Barker brought to the table was a fearless intensity to build new mythologies built on classic horror tropes, producing hellish visions of depravity with a language as lush and vivid as the most esteemed literature,” Pastorella wrote. In a 2018 essay looking back at Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, a collection of his short fiction that first appeared in the United States in the mid-1980s, Bob Pastorella neatly explained the appeal of Barker’s work. Clive Barker occupies a singular place in the world of horror fiction.
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