The Inhuman Condition - Softcover

Barker, Clive

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ISBN 10: 0671742892 ISBN 13: 9780671742898

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1991

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Clive Barker, the most exciting new master of horror today, unleashes a world of powerful eroticism, violence and uncontrolled desires. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, the living and the dead make love; a palace is built to lure Satan back to earth; and a powerful aphrodisiac creates ghastly sexual urgings.

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"The Washington Post" The most provacative tales of terror ever published.

"The Washington Post"

The most provacative tales of terror ever published.

"The New York Times"

Barker create�s� an atmosphere of dread and foreboding...He makes a bad dream seem not only creepily disturbing but plausible...."The Inhuman Condition" is Clive Barker at his most effective.

"Time"

Ever since the heyday of horror fiction...aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man...witty, unpredictable, and concise....Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror.

"The New York Times"

Barker create[ s] an atmosphere of dread and foreboding...He makes a bad dream seem not only creepily disturbing but plausible...."The Inhuman Condition" is Clive Barker at his most effective.

"The New York Times"

Barker create[s] an atmosphere of dread and foreboding...He makes a bad dream seem not only creepily disturbing but plausible...."The Inhuman Condition" is Clive Barker at his most effective.

"The Washington Post"The most provacative tales of terror ever published.

"The New York Times"Barker create[s] an atmosphere of dread and foreboding...He makes a bad dream seem not only creepily disturbing but plausible...."The Inhuman Condition" is Clive Barker at his most effective.

"Time"Ever since the heyday of horror fiction...aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man...witty, unpredictable, and concise....Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror.

"Time" Ever since the heyday of horror fiction...aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man...witty, unpredictable, and concise....Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror.

About the Author:

Clive Barker Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He took the publishing world by storm with his six-volume collection of short stories, published in England as the Books of Blood; the last three volumes were published in the united States as The Inhuman Condition, In the Flesh, and Cabal, which also includes the title novella. "Cabal" was adapted as the film Nightbreed, and the novella "The Hellbound Heart" inspired the series of Hellraiser films. Mr. Barker's short story "The Forbidden" was adapted for the screen as Candyman, and the children's fable "The Thief of Always" is being made into an animated feature. His novels include the highly acclaimed Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, Imajica, and Everville. In addition to his award-winning work as a short story writer and novelist, Mr. Barker writes, produces, and directs for the stage and screen. His illustrations can be seen in the books Clive Barker Illustrator and The Art of Clive Barker. Mr. Barker lives in Los Angeles.

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