Victoria’s Reviews > Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three > Status Update

confessions of a (pornographer’s) shroud 4/5

rawhead rex (5/5)

Finished: the skins of the fathers (3/5)
Next Story: new murders in the rue morgue

Finished: jacquelin ess: her will and testament (3/5)
Next Story: the skins of the fathers

Finished: hell’s event (5/5)
Next Story: jacqueline ess: her will and testament

Finished: dread (4/5; ending pleasantly caught me off guard but why was Mickey Mouse there)
Next Story: hell’s event

Finished: in the hills, the cities (5/5 what a read!)
Volume 1 of 3 completed
I was initially going to mention how I came into this bundle of short stories wanting gore and have been found wanting. Barker’s stories, while amazingly written, have not sated my need for something More from him. An umph that’s missing. This was found in “in the hills, the cities. agonizingly amazing, couldn’t look away.