In “The Body Politic,” a pair of severed hands leads a revolution unlike any you have ever imagined.
In between these narrative bookends, Barker offers us a series of unforgettable images. The tour begins with “The Midnight Meat Train,” one of the most extraordinary urban horror stories ever written, and ends with the novella “The Last Illusion,” the basis for Barker’s 1995 film, Lord of Illusions. He then proceeds to take us on a tour of some of those hidden highways.
“The dead have highways,” Barker tells us in the frame tale that begins this collection. Now, some thirty years after their initial release, The Books of Blood has assumed the status of an undisputed classic. The publication, one year later, of the final three volumes merely strengthened that initial impression. When the first three volumes of The Books of Blood appeared in 1984, it was immediately apparent that a writer of extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented gifts had emerged, seemingly out of nowhere. Dust jacket illustrations by Clive Barker
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