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A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and delight.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book is acrtually the Books of Blood Vol.4-6 under a different title, printing and cover. A bit naughty really!!!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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This is probably the second or third Barker collection I came across, way back in 1987. I was a high school kid, immersed in King, Straub, Lovecraft, Koontz, but Barker was a writer I had to think about, someone whose writing style aimed above the usual 6th grade average. His images were unsettling and confusing--I remember coming to the end of the title story and thinking, "Wwwhaaat?" but that was so long ago. I credit Barker with making me a more discerning, sophisticated reader. Horror could be sharp with wit, laced with the blackest comedy, and subversive like the punk rock music I loved. He approached topics like sexuality and psychology unlike any other writer I had ever read. This book, Volume 5 of "The Books of Blood," is one of the very strongest. He toys with religious fanaticism and fundamentalism in "Revelations," with the Devil in the modern world in the fable "Down, Satan!" and with eros and extreme arousal in "The Age of Desire," one of my favorite stories by him. This was one that I would retell to my shocked friends at lunch. They wanted to be weird, to be outcast, but Ha! they weren't willing to go all the way. Barker, he goes all the way. He is, along with Harlan Ellison and Lovecraft himself, the only writer of any type of fiction, that I can reread now, over a decade later, with satisfaction and awe and respect. Clive Barker. Make no mistake.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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"The Inhuman Condition" is the first Clive Barker book I've read and its bound not to be the last. Every story in here shines perfectly with all the elements that make good horror stories: panic, revulsion, terror, and just a light dash of black humor (the human protaginists in these stories are often stupified by the events taking place). There is also a good amount of free-form surrealism (or magic realism, if you prefer) lying beneath the surface of each story; Salvador Dali and Gabriel Garcia Marquez would be proud.
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Barker - Introductory level
If you're a real Barker fan you will find these shorts a little frustrating and too short. Lots of the Barker themes - other worlds, do we know ourselves - with the intricate story... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Angel1
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
I have loved everything that Clive Barker has written, but was shocked when I realised this was like looking at a comic, everything the whole story is in caption. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2010 by angel gabriel
RIP-OFF ALERT!!!
This is just one of the Books of Blood under a different title.
I'm disgusted at Amazon doing this. Read more
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Published on 27 Jun 2008 by Mrs. E. A. Molloy
Thought-Provoking Horror From the Master
Clive Barker is completely original. His storytelling is flawless, his details gruesome, and his voice doesn't insult your intelligence like some cheezy horror novels do. Mr. Read more
Published on 9 May 1999
Clive Barker never lets us down
Barker really does wonders to the imagination. The body politic is pure genious, showing us how we never really know our limbs. <g> The ghost story... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 1999
A Must-Read for Horror Fans
I absolutely loved this book. It's a collection of short stories that go from the ironic to the disturbing. The best story by far is the Body Politic. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 1999
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