The Essential Clive Barker
Selected Fiction
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November 1, 1999
Barker (Galilee) takes a thoughtful approach in this anthology of excerpts from his short stories, novels, plays, and screenplays. Illustrating 13 themes prominent in his work, including terror, love, art, and memory, the selections cover Barker's evolving career from works of horror to dark fantasy to his latest genre-combining novels. The introduction offers insights into the selected themes, Barker's philosophy of writing, and the events that inspired him to write. Each theme also begins with a short introduction that places the selected works within that theme's context. While many of the novel excerpts are quite short, they do stand on their own. The uninitiated reader will find the selections intriguing, not frustrating, while the reader familiar with Barker will find new perspectives on his complex works. But with no new material included, demand may be low. Recommended for larger public libraries.--Devon Thomas, formerly with Highland Township P.L., MI
Copyright 1999 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
November 15, 1999
In something of a midcareer self-assessment, Barker collects excerpts from his many best-selling novels as well as from his plays and screenplays to illustrate recurrent themes in his fiction. There are 13 chapters of selections, and the themes they highlight are agreeably broad: "Doorways" the first is called, and others are "Visions and Dreams," "Bestiary," "Love," "Terrors" (a natural for a writer who first hit with a series of story collections called The Books of Blood), and "Making and Unmaking." The excerpts are all self-contained episodes, and Barker says he expects the collection to be browsed and read at random rather than straight through. Two of the book's main objectives are to show that, though Barker's work has become decreasingly gory and increasingly romantic, it is still animated by the same concerns and remains essentially fantastic. Point made. ((Reviewed November 15, 1999))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1999, American Library Association.)
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