A review by persypie
Books of Blood, Volume Three by Clive Barker, Clive Barker

2.0

“I saw the heart of nothing and survived.”

Most of the stories in this collection were a disappointment, with the exception of Scape-Goat for being moderately better than the rest.

They can’t all be winners, but this was a disappointing selection of stories that bored me.

I wish I would have kept up with running reviews for each story in this collection (as is now tradition) but alas, I did not. I’ll add the ones I do have here.

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INDIVIDUAL REVIEWS
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Son of Celluloid ⭐️⭐️
“Nobody dies in the movies. You can always thread the celluloid up again.”

Well, thank goodness the “fat” girl was here to save the day (at a whopping 225 lbs, give me a break). I really liked parts of this story, but it was undeniably fatphobic, and I’m very over the horror industry needing to rape young virgin girls.

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Rawhead Rex ⭐️
“He would certainly die. It was purely a matter of time and inclination.”

They can’t all be winners.