Find Veren Kirjat: Osa 1 (Veren Kirjat #1) Designed By Clive Barker File

συλλογή διηγημάτων του Μπάρκερ.
Κάποια διηγήματα ήταν συμπαθητικά και κάποια μέτρια. Στο σύνολο τους όμως δεν με ενθουσίασαν. Η γραφή του Μπάρκερ έμοιαζε κάπως πρόχειρη και γενικά μου φάνηκαν όλες οι ιστορίες χωρίς συνοχή. Πρωτότυπες ιδέες σίγουρα υπάρχουν αλλά μέχρι εκεί. Ανακατεμένο σπλάτερ, με κοσμικό τρόμο, σεξ και χιούμορ. Μια συνταγή που την ξέρει καλά ο συγγραφέας αλλά δεν αποδίδει πάντα
Το Το καταραμένο παιχνίδι παραμένει πάντοτε ένα από τα πιο αγαπημένα μου βιβλία, όμως ό,τι άλλο και να διάβασα από τον συγκεκριμένο συγγραφέα, το βρήκα από μέτριο έως απωθητικό.

Επιστρέφοντας στην συγκεκριμένη συλλογή διηγημάτων, να πω πως μου άρεσε κάπως η ιστορία με τον Δαίμονα Φλύαρο, διότι είχε χιούμορ, πρωτοτυπία και θύμιζε επεισόδιο της σειράς Tales from the crypt, Επίσης η ιστορία με τις δυο πόλεις στην Γιουγκοσλαβία ήταν πρωτότυπη αλλά μου φάνηκε τόσο κακογραμμένη που ουσιαστικά η αρχική ιδέα σταδιακά αποδυναμώθηκε. Οι υπόλοιπες ιστορίες απλά μέτριες
,από μένα

ΥΓ: Κακή μετάφραση από τις εκδόσεις Οξυ. Ορθογραφικά λάθη, μεταφραστικά ολισθήματα και μάλλον άγαρμπος χειρισμός λέξεων

ΥΓ: Απαίσιες εκδόσεις με χαρτί ανακυκλωμένο τελευταίας ποιότητας The Book of Blood

The Midnight Meat Train

The Yattering and Jack

Pig Blood Blues

Sex, Death and Star Shine

In the Hills, the Cities
This is my favorite story from this volume.
I found this image on deviant art, an awesome depiction of the giant made of people,
I listened to the audio version of Books of Blood volumeand while not being blown away by the majority of the narration, I thought four of the stories exceptional and the remaining two just didnt do it for me but I guess you will always get that in most collections.


Book of Blood
The first story follows a psychic researcher and a medium as they investigate a haunted house, This story was adapted to become part of the film the Book of Blood and visions of the highway of the dead, The medium doesnt fare to well, you see frauds very often dont and his final thought may well have been along the lines of wishing this particular door to the dead stayed well and truly shut.
Nevertheless he ends up with the stories from the books of blood carved into his dead flesh becoming the literal source of the tales,

The Midnight Meat Train
This one was my favourite, loved both the film and the short story and its interesting to see how the film was padded out to increase the screen time.
The Midnight meat train is a vessel used to transport food to the age old masters under the city, the food is those humans who are unfortunate enough to pick this particular train and at the same time be deemed fit for consumption.
Mahogany is the trains butcher, with no regard for human life and a bag of tools youll never want to see opened, The Midnight Meat Train on a subway to hell, a brutal harbinger of death and the one place on earth Kaufman shouldnt have fallen asleep.


The Yattering and Jack
A demon called the Yattering is sent by Beelzebub to haunt Jack, taunt him until his sanity breaks but it gets a little more than it bargained for.
Its victim is frustratingly oblivious and seemingly unconcerned with the demons increasingly harsh course of harassment, The Yattering is luckily not too bright but can Jack turn the tide, or is it just a game with an assured victor, Demon or man

Pig Blood Blues
Couldnt take to this story, I must subconsciously have something against pigs because when the sow in this story was described as being beautiful and alluring or words of that effect, I was lost never to recover.


Sex, Death and Starshine,
This tale starts of as an old fashioned theatre performance, the narrator put on a splendidly posh voice that was perfect for the setting and although probably not intended, I did laugh when he cursed and swore.
Profanity in a posh voice just does it for me, dont know why but I did laugh, On the whole though this turned into a chilling story of the dead come back to watch and star in the theatres last performance with a couple of disturbing sex scenes thrown in to add even more bite.


In the Hills, the Cities,
Mick and Judd, take a romantic but strained vacation in Yugoslavia and unwittingly find themselves in the middle of the strangest of wars, Couldnt get into this story, thought it a bit strange at times and this was my least favourite,

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Il Libro di Sangue:

Il giovane Simon McNeal, un falso medium, sceglie la casa sbagliata per esercitare la sua discutibile professione.
I morti sono permalosi e vendicativi ed il ciarlatano imparerà una dolorosa lezione: siamo tutti libri di sangue in qualunque punto ci aprano, siamo rossi.


Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte:

Un sanguinario serial killer si aggira nella metropolitana di New York al calare delle tenebre, lo sventurato Leon Kaufman scoprirà suo malgrado la verità dietro gli omicidi e molto altro.
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È un vero peccato che lo splendido film con Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones e Brooke Shields ispirato a questo racconto breve, a detta di molti il migliore di Barker, abbia avuto una pessima distribuzione impedendo all'autore di completare la sua trilogia cinematografica dedicata ai Padri Fondatori di New York.
Disturbante ed indimenticabile.

Il Ciarliero e Jack:

Al Ciarliero, un demone minore, è stato assegnato l'ingrato compito di acchiappare l'anima di Jack J.
Polo, vittima talmente insipida ed imperturbabile da superare indenne ogni agguato e da non offrire alla malvagità il benché minimo appiglio, Racconto grottesco ed esilarante di cui mi ero dimenticato aver letto in passato la splendida versione a fumetti disegnata da John Bolton e che mi ha fatto venire voglia di vederne la versione televisiva, un episodio di Tales from the Darkside, serie ideata da George Romero ed andata in onda anche qui in Italia con il nome Un salto nel buio, del quale ignoravo completamente l'esistenza.


"Que sera, sera, "

Mai dire maiale:

“Prima ancora di vederli, già sentivi lodore dei ragazzini, quello del loro giovane sudore che impregnava i corridoi di finestrelle a sbarre, quello del loro alito sottochiave divenuto rancido, quello delle loro chiome molli di sporcizia.
Poi ne udivi le voci, smorzate dal regolamento della detenzione,
Non si corre. Non si grida. Non si fischia. Non si fa a botte”,

Neil Redman, ex poliziotto dichiarato non idoneo dal Dipartimento, ottiene un nuovo lavoro presso il riformatorio minorile Tetherdowne, Il carcere cela però un terribile

segreto, . .
Racconto viscerale e disturbante che migliora progressivamente fino all'agghiacciante finale,

Sesso, morte e stelle:

Terry Calloway è il direttore di una scalcagnata compagnia teatrale in cui le doti d'attrice della bella primadonna Diane Duvall, sono inversamente proporzionali al suo talento nell'appagare sessualmente il suo mecenate ed amante.

L'Elysium Theather, dove va in scena La dodicesima notte di Shakespeare rischia quindi la chiusura, ma l'enigmatico ha in mente idee diverse al riguardo.

Storia grandguignolesca di ambientazione teatrale a base di sesso, humour nero e morti viventi,
Carina ed originale ma non mi ha fatto impazzire,

In collina, le città:

Popolac camminava e Popolac cantava, Esisteva forse in tutta Europa una tale meraviglia

Popolac e Podujevo, città gemelle della Jugoslavia, condividono un'oscura tradizione millenaria,
Gli sventurati Mick e Judd, turisti inglesi in luna di miele stanno per scoprire quale e non gli piacerà,
Racconto viscerale e parecchio disturbante dall'originalità dirompente, il migliore dell'antologia insieme a Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte e Mai dire maiale.
Το πρώτο από τα βιβλία του αίματος είναι από τις αγαπημένες μου συλλογές διηγημάτων. Για κάποιον λόγο κατά το παρελθόν το είχα ανταλλάξει και ευτυχώς που οι εκδόσεις ΟΞΥ προχώρησαν σε επανέκδοσή του και μου έδωσαν έτσι την ευκαιρία να το διαβάσω ξανά.

Η άποψή μου δεν άλλαξε, μου φάνηκε και πάλι εκπληκτικό. Εξακολουθούσα να θυμάμαι με ανατριχιαστική ακρίβεια τα midnight meat train και in the hills, the cities κι αυτό μάλλον λέει τα πάντα από μόνο του,
Το απόλυτο Must σε όσους συγγραφείς αρέσκονται στον τρόμο και γράφουν διηγήματα.
Honestly This short story collection is flawless,

Every single story in this was without fault, All of them were haunting and really, really well written, and get a fulleach from me, The weakest one was, in my opinion, "Sex, Death and Starshine", but that just means that it was slightly worse than the others, not that it was leagues beneath.
My favourite was possibly "The Yattering and Jack" because it was clever as hell, but honestly, it's really hard to choose,

I've already started the next volume, The first volume of Books of Blood is an excited debut that gushes with inventiveness the way the titular fluid leaves a severed artery.
As gleefully moribund as they are perverse, each of the six stories collected here are elaborately conceived phantasmagorias that offer a reckoning for its protagonists who take the banality of existence for granted.
For Barker, abandoned houses can be way stations on the highway of the dead the subway can serve as a banquet cart for the underground rulers of the metropolis above their hoary heads a thanksgiving dinner can be terrorized by a neurotic minor demon a pig of behemoth proportions can rule a reform school like a mad queen a failing theater house can experience a return to form thanks to an undead starlet entire populations of cities can come together to form skyhigh gods with nothing but ropes, straps and their willing bodies.
Written with a sly sense of humor, Barkers deranged tales delight now the same as they must have on first publication, when they gobsmacked readers like Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell.
A diverse collection of classics from one of the masters of horror,

I've read this series before at some point a long time ago So I decided to try the audiobooks, and wasn't disappointed, I've seen all the movies and tv adaptations made of the stories, but there's nothing like the books themselves, Josh Malerman's book 'Pearl' was a homage to one of the stories, Not every story is a winner, though, I wasn't a fan of Sex, Death, and Starshine undeniably wellwritten, just not my style, Overall, a must read for any horror fan or budding horror author,'s horror at it's finest,

.Stars Πιστεύω πως δεν υπάρχει άνθρωπος που να μην λατρεύει τον Clive Barker και να μην ένιωσε μια γλυκιά ανατριχίλα να διαπερνά το κορμί του όταν έμαθε ότι θα ξανακυκλοφορήσουν τα βιβλία του αίματος. Ήμουν από τους πρώτους που έτρεξαν να τα αποκτήσουν και να χαθούν στη "φρίκη" τους. Κάθε διήγημα του βιβλίου, μια μικρή ιστορία φρίκης και μυστηρίου που το μόνο κακό που έχουν είναι ότι δεν τα χορταίνεις! Θες κι άλλο! Η γλώσσα του Barker, που τη διαχειρίζεται τόσο έξυπνα, ξεχειλίζει ωμότητα σε όλο το βιβλίο. Πιο πολύ απόλαυσα τον μικρό δαίμονα Φλύαρο". Περιμένω τώρα το επόμενο! Neko vreme sam planirala početak čitanja Barkerovih dela i izbor je lako pao na prvu Knjigu krvi, u najvećoj meri zbog dobrih preporuka i delimično zbog toga što bih mogla da napravim pauzu u čitanju njegovih priča ukoliko mi "ne legnu".
Malo je reći da je bojazan bila neoptavdana,

Prvu knjigu čini šest njegovih priča i, pomalo klišeizirano, prva priča me je u potpunosti kupila i naterala da knjigu ne ispuštam iz ruku u narednih nekoliko dana.
Svideo mi se način na koji Barker piše, udarajući u glavu i u stomak, kratko, jasno i odsečno, Nema okolišanja, pripovedanja u nedogled i iluzija, Svaka od ovih priča surova je na svoj način, dok elementi neverovatnog ostaju u opsegu realnog i mogućeg,

Kako sam već pomenula, prva priča, simbolično naslovljena "Knjiga krvi" nas uvodi u Barkerov svet i oslikava nam jasno njegov stil pisanja, na koji način opisuje događaje i kakav horor od njega možemo očekivati.
Zgodno je pomenuti da, ukoliko nekome pri prvom čitanju ova priča "ne legne", da ne očekuje značajnu promenu kod ostalih priča.


Kao i uvek, teško mi je da izdvojim priču koja mi se najviše svidela, ali bih volela da istaknem, pored pomenute prve priče, "Jetering i Džek" i "U bregove, gradovi".
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