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The Books of Blood, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Dick Hill, Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer, Chet Williamson, Chris Patton
- Series: The Books of Blood, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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The Books of Blood, Volume 2
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, John Lee, Peter Berkrot, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
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Better than King
- By dara kenny on 2021-09-13
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 3
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Xe Sands, Jeffrey Kafer, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
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Another great edition
- By dara kenny on 2021-10-18
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 5
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer, Melissa Exelberth, Scott O'Neill, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in digital for the first time.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 4
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Bishop, Gigi Shane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in audiobook format for the first time. The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Hellbound Heart
- Abridged Edition Read by the Author
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Clive Barker
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay....
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Loved It!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-06-01
Written by: Clive Barker
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Cabal
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, he seeks refuge and finds the last great creatures of the world - the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. They are possessed of unearthly powers-and so is Boone. In the hunt for Boone, they too will be hunted. Now only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood, Volume 2
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, John Lee, Peter Berkrot, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
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Better than King
- By dara kenny on 2021-09-13
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 3
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Xe Sands, Jeffrey Kafer, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
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Another great edition
- By dara kenny on 2021-10-18
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 5
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer, Melissa Exelberth, Scott O'Neill, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in digital for the first time.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 4
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Bishop, Gigi Shane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in audiobook format for the first time. The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Hellbound Heart
- Abridged Edition Read by the Author
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Clive Barker
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay....
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Loved It!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-06-01
Written by: Clive Barker
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Cabal
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, he seeks refuge and finds the last great creatures of the world - the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. They are possessed of unearthly powers-and so is Boone. In the hunt for Boone, they too will be hunted. Now only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction.
Written by: Clive Barker
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The Books of Blood: Volume 6
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Dick Hill, Johnny Heller, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in digital for the first time.
Written by: Clive Barker
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Abarat, Book 1
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away.
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Imajica
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 37 hrs and 20 mins
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Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie "oh" pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension.
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Great Story
- By Jason on 2021-05-30
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The Scarlet Gospels
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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The gates to hell are open, and something beckons.... The last of Earth's magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to takeover hell. Meanwhile Private Investigator Harry D'Amour is fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine.
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Great Story
- By Kyle on 2018-02-07
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Weaveworld
- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
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Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world - and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror - a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.
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Fantastic!
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The Hellbound Heart
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- Written by: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back - though the price will be bloody and terrible...and there will certainly be hell to pay.
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snooze fest.
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Necroscope
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Harry Keogh is the man who can talk to the dead, the man for whom every grave willingly gives up its secrets, the one man who knows how to travel effortlessly through time and space to destroy the vampires that threaten all of humanity.
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Thirty years after Kirsty escaped from the clutches of the Hell Priest, Pinhead, and lived to fight another day, her life has never been the same. Every few years she fashions a new name, a new identity, and a new home for herself. She is a woman who is running from her past at all costs, which is why it comes as such a surprise when she receives a mysterious letter in the mail, addressed to the identity she's been running from over half her life. Answering the letter's query, she begins a descent down a rabbit hole to the ultimate confrontation.
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Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.
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Publisher's Summary
The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.
Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.
The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."
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- Steven Savile
- 2013-05-09
Everyone's a Book of Blood
What did you love best about The Books of Blood, Volume 1?
I've been reading Barker and collecting his stuff since the late 80s. He's the great imaginer of our time. These first stories, raw, powerful and shocking at the time ushered in a brand new understanding of the politics of horror. No longer were we talking about the outside threats, the aliens, the monsters, we were facing our own inner demons, we were the monsters, and Clive Barker really understood that long before the rest. The human monster is the most frightening of all. And these stories, from the Midnight Meat Train rattling beneath NYC to the unhappy demonic Yattering trying to do the job he hates, the visceral nature of Pigs Blood Blues, Sex Death and Starshine... brilliant... but truly the gem, the story that assures Barker's legacy is that final one, In the Hills, The Cities... which is quite possibly one of the best stories of fantasy-horror ever written.
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- Derek Roy
- 2020-03-10
I mostly liked these... I LOVED the last story!
Clive Barker delivers a solid anthology.
The voice actors are fantastic!
“In the Hills, the Cities” is unlike anything I've ever imagined... worth it for this story, alone!
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- kevin connolly
- 2017-10-19
WICKED !
Mr Barker has delivered yet again another masterpiece of Science fiction/ Horror.
Books of Blood #1 was great.
can't wait to read the rest.
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- Chris
- 2019-08-01
PHENOMENAL
In the Hills, the Cities is one of the best short stories ever written. Obviously in my opinion.
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- Roy
- 2017-09-24
Pure brilliance!
The stories themselves are interesting and emotionally touching. Of course we get the Clive Barker mood with it's suspence, horror and gore. Anyone who calls himself/herself a horror fan must experience "The Books Of Blood".
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- RN
- 2013-10-22
Throw Ration and Reason out the window!
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After listening to these stories I went on an aggressive search for everything that Clive Barker had released through Audible. He is a Master Story teller. I still have his stories in my head! Life is so full of the everyday... Barker knows how to take you away. But who knows where he is going to take you. AWESOME.
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- cody Dietz
- 2021-09-11
It’s nothing special.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and I am not even sure what it was here that didn’t wow me. I can’t entirely put my finger on it. It’s horror but I was mostly bored with it never really cared about what would happen next. They were just filler that I will not remember. The last story had a monster made out of thousands of people. In my head I just couldn’t get over that they strategically trained to be part of this massive thing that would just crush and kill everyone. There’s just lots of stuff happening, and little reason or explanation in my opinion.
Narrators for me have to be terrible to hurt a story, thought they were all good enough.
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- Kimberly Scott
- 2013-07-10
Riveting and Bone-Chilling!
Quite possibly the scariest audiobook I have ever listened too! From the author who brought us the "Hell Raiser" movies, I should have known this would be a riveting, bone-chilling experience. No one can write horror like Clive Barker with his twists and turns, and mind-bending exploits into the dark side of humanity. This collection of short stories is certainly not for the faint of heart! I'm not typically a fan of a lot of "gore" but with Barker's stories it's inevitable and it works fantastically to his advantage. Each of these stories left me in absolute awe....and yes, rather afraid of the dark. I quickly learned that these were not the stories to listen to before going to bed. But, they were incredible nonetheless. The narrators all performed outstandingly and to choose one favorite over the others would be a grave injustice. Each narrator had a unique, eerie quality that only enhanced Barker's writing and brought it to life. My initial impression was that the narration had a "Twilight Zone" appeal to it but then quickly stepped beyond and into something much darker and much more sinister. As an audiobook, this was an astounding performance of stories that I would highly recommend to fans of Horror Fiction, and particularly fans of Clive Barker. Very well done....FIVE stars!
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- Weinberg
- 2013-05-09
Finally!
What made the experience of listening to The Books of Blood, Volume 1 the most enjoyable?
Some of Barker's best early stories are in this volume. The narrators are strong and the tales still pack a great punch. The introductions mentioned in the description, however, are nowhere to be found. Just the stories.
Collecting the first three Books of Blood into one full audio book may have been a better idea, but it's a fair price for a half-dozen stories of this quality. "Midnight Meat Train" is a classic, but the final story in V1 is something truly special.
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- John R. Hansen
- 2021-07-07
Naw...
It, in my humble opinion, was awful. Stupid. 7th grade stuff...
It was a mistake.
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