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PublisherGallery Books

ISBN-100743417321

ISBN-139780743417327

eBay Product ID (ePID)1232061

Product Key Features

Book TitleCabal

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHorror, Short Stories (Single Author), Thrillers / General

Publication Year2001

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorClive Barker

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight11.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsWashingtion Times[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the furthest reaches of the imagination....His ambition and audacity are unparalleled; we know that we are in the presence of a vision that is genuine, unique, and lasting., The New York Times Book Review[Cabal] demonstrate[s] why the gleefully gory Mr. Barker is at the top of his genre. Endlessly inventive, he takes familiar themes a step or two farther...dazzling, captivating stuff..., The Washington Post In the hands of a lesser writer this could be just another tale of nightmarish evil...[what] lifts Barker from common craftsman to the rarefied and chancy domain of artist is his profound awareness of the alienation and aloneness of man. And he brings these insights into dramatic focus through the innocence of his monsters..., Elle Simultaneously repels and spellbinds the reader...Literature in the tradition of Poe, Shelley and Hawthorne., Washingtion Times [Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the furthest reaches of the imagination....His ambition and audacity are unparalleled; we know that we are in the presence of a vision that is genuine, unique, and lasting., Armistead Maupin[Barker writes] with the easy confidence of a tribal storyteller, and elder who has seen everything and committed most of it to scripture., PeopleBarker's dark, powerful imagination -- and his skill in pacing to keep his stories surprising -- make the horror grisly and effective., The New York Times Book Review[Cabal] demonstrate[s] why the gleefully gory Mr. Barkeris at the top of his genre. Endlessly inventive, he takes familiar themes a step or two farther...dazzling, captivating stuff..., Armistead Maupin [Barker writes] with the easy confidence of a tribal storyteller, and elder who has seen everything and committed most of it to scripture., The Boston Herald Barker's work reads like a cross between Stephen King and...Gabriel García Márquez. He creates a world where our biggest fears appear to be our own dreams., People Barker's dark, powerful imagination -- and his skill in pacing to keep his stories surprising -- make the horror grisly and effective., The Boston Herald Barker's work reads like a cross between Stephen King and...Gabriel Garca Mrquez. He creates a world where our biggest fears appear to be our own dreams., ElleSimultaneously repels and spellbinds the reader...Literature in the tradition of Poe, Shelley and Hawthorne., Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionClive Barker is back from yet another excursion into his dark and fertile imagination, bearing sinister fruits of fine horror fantasy., Atlanta Journal-Constitution Clive Barker is back from yet another excursion into his dark and fertile imagination, bearing sinister fruits of fine horror fantasy., The Boston HeraldBarker's work reads like a cross between Stephen King and...Gabriel García Márquez. He creates a world where our biggest fears appear to be our own dreams., The New York Times Book Review [ Cabal ] demonstrate[s] why the gleefully gory Mr. Barker is at the top of his genre. Endlessly inventive, he takes familiar themes a step or two farther...dazzling, captivating stuff...

Dewey Decimal823.914

Table Of Content{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\froman Tms Rmn;}}\pard{\f0 Contents }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Cabal}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Part One: Loco}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 The Truth}{\par}\pard{\f0 Academy}{\par}\pard{\f0 The Rhapsodist}{\par}\pard{\f0 Necropolis}{\par}\pard{\f0 A Different Ape}{\par}\pard{\f0 Feet of Clay}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Part Two: Death's a Bitch}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Rough Roads}{\par}\pard{\f0 Where He Fell}{\par}\pard{\f0 Touched}{\par}\pard{\f0 Sun and Shade}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Part Three: Dark Ages}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 The Stalking Ground}{\par}\pard{\f0 Above and Below}{\par}\pard{\f0 The Prophetic Child}{\par}\pard{\f0 Tabernacle}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Part Four: Saints and Sinners}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 The Toll}{\par}\pard{\f0 Now or Never}{\par}\pard{\f0 Delirium}{\par}\pard{\f0 The Wrath of the Righteous}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Part Five: The Good Night}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 A Friendless Face}{\par}\pard{\f0 Driven}{\par}\pard{\f0 That Desire}{\par}\pard{\f0 Triumph of the Mask}{\par}\pard{\f0 The Harrowing}{\par}\pard{\f0 Cabal}{\par}\pard{\f0 Abide with Me}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 The Life of Death}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 How Spoilers Bleed}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 Twilight at the Towers}{\par}\pard{\f0 }{\par}\pard{\f0 The Last Illusion}{\par}\pard{\f0

SynopsisFor more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction into a terrifying, transcendent genre all his own. With skillful prose, he enthralls even as he horrifies; with uncanny insight, he disturbs as profoundly as he reveals. Evoking revulsion and admiration, anticipation and dread, Barker's works explore the darkest contradictions of the human condition: our fear of life and our dreams of death., This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...Why, he would ask, were there not instances of youths being removed from the college? Why were there individuals declared unworthy of being allowed to remain--for it was impossible that there could be no instance where such a course ought to be taken? Why, but because those who had the power of appointing to offices stuck with such pertinacity to their own selection, so resolved were they to carry their own choice into effect, that they opened a constant obstacle to that regular course of discretion exercised by the professors, which would in some instances at least lead to the exclusion of young men after they had gone through their probation. The professors acted under the intimidating sense of having tlieir discretion examined before a public scrutiny, and that their acts would form the grounds of motions in that court. The result was, that they were slow to exercise the power of exclusion: and this led naturally to the consequence, that many worthless and incapable persons were sent out as writers, who did no good, and were merely a dead weight on the Company. When a rebellion, as it was called, broke out in the College of Hertford, why was there so much greater a sensation caused by it than was produced by a similar event in any other seminary? It was not long since a serious disturbance took place at Winchester College--the students actually took the college by storm, and nailed up the provost in his own house; and it was not until military aid was called in that the rioters were quelled. The consequence was, that the principal promoters of the disturbance were in a body expelled; and yet no great sensation was produced in the public mind. It was not many months since a scene of disturbance took place in Christ's College, Oxford, ..

LC Classification NumberPR6015.I3