Clive Barker’s Books of Blood are returning to book shelves this coming Halloween season, with Penguin Publishing Group reissuing Volumes 1-3 in time for spooky season.
This refreshed edition includes an introduction by Clive Barker and an all-new afterword by Grady Hendrix, who writes, “Barker has no patience with the status quo. He’s on the side of the monsters.” Check out the new release artwork down below.
Brimming with Barker’s signature blend of queerness, grotesquerie, cosmic awe, and myth-making, the new edition of Books of Blood is now available from Amazon and other retailers.
With the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. He was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror,” and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. It is his powerful writing style and arresting imagery that have made Books of Blood a classic—and Clive Barker a cult phenomenon.
As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Clive Barker‘s Books of Blood are fondly remembered as some of the best scary story collections ever put to paper (or skin, for that matter), with the author standing toe-to-toe with giants like Stephen King and even Edgar Allan Poe.”
