Hell hot on runners' heels, the infernal nether regions come to race, literally so, in the streets of London. I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment.

Don't you know that Quaid, who forces others to face their fears, will have his never-ending moments of dread himself? This is often considered one of Barker's finest moments and has turned up in several best-of horror anthologies. Filled to bursting with woundings and madness, monstrous absurdities of flesh and bone, and the nonsenses of fear, despair, and revulsion, Volume 2 is one of my favorites in Barker's series and contains two of his very greatest stories.Ĭollege students and their mad messiah: 'Dread' takes a philosophical approach to terror, as strange Quaid posits that fear underlies everything humans are. In a way, it's a mantra for his early novels and tales, a neatly-done epigram that sums up not just his work but the entire horror genre itself. Life-span cognitive activity, neuropathologic burden, and cognitive aging. DOI: 10.1212/WNL.So begins the aptly titled 'Dread,' the lead story in the second volume of Clive Barker's essential six-volume collection, Books of Blood.

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