God, just talking about The Inhuman Condition makes me itch to read it all over again for the tenth time.Clive Barker, especially early Barker like In The Flesh, The Inhuman Condition & The Books Of Blood are so righteously killer, I can't help but re-reading them whenever I get the chance.Talk about visionary horror, Clive Barker turned the entire Horror Genre upside down with his fiction.Inventive, clever, well-written & above all, original, he was like the new incarnation of H.P. Lovecraft.Genius.The Inhuman Condition consists of five novellas:
The Inhuman Condition:Some hoods roll a drunk and steal something very precious.A piece of rope with three knots in it.Nothing special, right?Well...once you untie the knots, something comes into being.Something terrible.Great story.
The Body Politic:Charlie has the strangest thoughts.He thinks his hands are planning a revolt, plotting against him and the whole human race.Crazy, right?Well...when he wakes up to find that his hands have strangled his wife, he's not so sure any more.Another great, original story.
Revelations!: A modern day ghost story with a small twist.An evangelsit and his troupe check into a motel where a murder most foul had taken place...so do the deceased couple, for they're there to recreate the murder or try and reconcile, who can tell.Witty and strange.Clive keeps us enthralled.
Down, Satan:The only detraction from the book's brilliance.A rather short story about a man who wants to hang with Satan so he builds Hell on earth just for that very purpose.Bizare and dark, never really takes off as a full story.
The Age Of Desire:Weird.That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think about this story.A group of scientists are doing experiments with hallucinogenic love drugs.The results are very interestng.Probably the most pornographic of all the stories.This one will make you wonder what really churns through Clive Barker's brain.
Overall, an excellent incarnation of horror.Buy it, read it, love it.
Dig it!
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