![]() ![]() It was as if Candyman was transcending his fictional status by owning it as his chief characteristic. To live in people’s dreams to be whispered at street-corners but not have to be. When I got to that famous line in The Forbidden. They were also much more frightening than I expected. So I opened my first ever Clive Barker book.Ĭlear, cool and lyrical, with riveting and stunningly relevant plots, they could have been written yesterday, or even in ten years time. I felt I should at least read The Hellbound Heart and The Forbidden, on which they are based respectively. Then I was preparing for my YouTube show Title Fright 10: Curious Cruelty, which pits Hellraiser against Candyman. I denied myself a lot of wonderful horror writing for years because of this and I’m only now catching up.įirst came Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House, which I've blogged about here. I’ve been saying for a while that if loving horror is an orientation, I’ve only just come out of the closet. ![]()
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