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Let’s try to keep things straight. Cabal is a published book by Clive Barker containing the short novel Cabal and four short stories: The Life of Death, How Spoilers Bleed, Twilight at the Towers, and The Last Illusion.
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Clive Barker’s Imajica is more than the world; it’s five. Four of them have reconciled with each other, and one – ours, the Earth – is removed from the rest. But reconciliation may be upon us.
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I have read the collection of stories known as “The Monster Book of Zombies” edited by Stephen Jones, which is more than just Tales of the Walking Dead as the subtitle suggests. It’s variations on a theme. Perhaps that’s the standard as I’m not often a short story collections reader.
I’m also not much of a horror reader, so to attempt to properly review this collection would be folly. However, I have chosen my favorite short stories from this collection to share with you.
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The Inhuman Condition is a collection of short stories by one of the modern masters of the macabre – Clive Barker. Published in 1986, these stories are some of the first published by Barker, and they set a tone of dark and delirious, sensuous and sentimental.
The five stories; The Inhuman Condition (of which the collection is also named after); The Body Politic; Revelations; Down, Satan!; and The Age of Desire, all focus on the nature of humanity.
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Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always is a fable as relevant today for all ages, as it was upon its release to the world on November 1, 1992… Perhaps even more so.
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