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  <title><![CDATA[Books of Blood 2]]></title>
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  <default_description>Another book of gruesome tales from Clive Barker.  Stories in this book: Dread, Hell's Event, Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testimony, The Skins of the Fathers, New Murders in the Rue Morgue.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1984</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Back in 1984, Clive Barker made his name within the deeply competitive world of horror with the publication of the first three volumes of the macabre short stories 'The Books Of Blood'. Written in his spare time, he admits that he was not expecting them to sell really at all, let alone predict the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47631176">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 11 14:48:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, not the version I have. Mine has a creepy mask-thing on the front.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark and insightful, twisted and gory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just reread this for the first time in many years. My favorite is a short story called Dread. This tale is about Quaid, Steven, and Cheryl. Quaid is obsessed with dread and decides to make some people face their dread only to have it come back on him.<br/>The other short stories are just as fasci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6776956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great collection by Barker. The standout for me is &quot;Dread.&quot; I remember reading it for the first time and realizing at a certain point what bad thing was going to happen next, and actually pausing for a moment, not wanting to continue reading. That doesn't happen very often! Recomme...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[almost a perfection of the horror short story. The two I liked the most are &quot;Dread&quot; and Hells Event&quot;. The former a psychological delve into the thing you most fear. The Latter a darkly comic look at track racing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[scary shit...and it has the short story the movies &quot;hellraiser&quot; was based on...amazing and gory and fun to read late at nite]]></body>
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    <review id="19668842">
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    <body><![CDATA[ Last story feels dull and trite, weak part of the entire collection,<br/><br/>Dread however is a stellar highlight.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks for lending me these way back when Troy.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?ID=632" title="http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?ID=632">http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my comments under volume 1.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[really creative, scary stuff]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark and delicious.]]></body>
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