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Mr. Barker is a genius. These tales are wicked. He has a great imagination. (

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Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |

Booklist Nov 1, 1996 v93 n5 p522

Library Journal June 15, 1996 v121 n11 p108

anton969 | Mar 11, 2009 |

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Books of Blood (4)

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1985

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Original publication date	1985
Series	Books of Blood (4)
Blurbers	King, Stephen

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0671684639, Paperback)

Clive Barker, the most exciting new master of horror today, unleashes a world of powerful eroticism, violence and uncontrolled desires. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, the living and the dead make love; a palace is built to lure Satan back to earth; and a powerful aphrodisiac creates ghastly sexual urgings.

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