![]() This review has been corrected an earlier version mistakenly attributed cover and interior illustrations to the author, rather than to the correct illustrator, Bob Eggleton. ![]() He is the director of Hellraiser, which was based on his novella The Hellbound Heart. Later on, he moved to fantasy and urban fantasy with novels like Weaveworld. He first got noticed in the mid-80s by writing short horror stories. Hardcore Barker fans will snap this title up. Clive Barker is an English author, film director and artist who works in the fantasy and horror genres. Barker draws the reader in by giving his horrors a human dimension and describing them with his usual cinematic vividness. Several of these chapters have only a tenuous connection to the frame narrative. Executed murderer Tom Requiem is resurrected by agents of the Underland to lead the titular parade, which will “send some fears into the hearts of men.” Over the next five chapters, Requiem expands his entourage to include the person he murdered, a homicidal golem, a gaggle of circus freaks, a mythical monster known as the Sabbaticus, and a young woman tortured to death in an iron maiden. ![]() More a series of vignettes than a structured story, this novella elaborates one of horror maven Barker’s favorite themes: the close proximity of the human and the monstrous. ![]()
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