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Inhuman Condition
	Author: Robert L. Barker Publisher: Audioworks Category: Book List Price: ~~$9.95~~ Buy Used: $1.92 as of 11/21/2009 06:10 PST details You Save: $8.03 (81%) New (2) Used (9) from $1.92 Seller: ezekial3 Format: Abridged, Audiobook Media: Audio Cassette Edition: Abridged Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.5 ISBN: 0671658093 Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780671658090 ASIN: 0671658093 Publication Date: January 15, 1988 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description Clive Barker, the most exciting new master of horror today, unleashes a world of powerful eroticism, violence and uncontrolled desires. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, the living and the dead make love; a palace is built to lure Satan back to earth; and a powerful aphrodisiac creates ghastly sexual urgings.

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 13 1 2 3 Next » Good collection of creepy stories June 10, 2006 Len (Connecticut USA) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful This is a good collection of creepy stories. As usual, Clive Barker delivers wild images, exciting plots and impactful language. The story about the hands is particularly creepy and memorable. If you're new to Clive Barker, start with one of his full-length books and try the short stories later. Full-length character development is where he really shines. If you already love his writing, you'll enjoy these dark tales. AUDIO VERSION - I'm sorry for Clive Barker that this audio book was performed and directed so poorly. Dillinger Steele mispronounces 50 or so words narrating this short collection. If you love the English language and Barker's beautiful prose, you'll cringe listening to Dillinger Steele mangle it. A fair read May 22, 2006 SHIV SHAKTI (Trinidad....west indies.) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful There are some blood tales in this book.Let me cut to the chase. 1)The body politic. A very simple story.In a world where our hands have a mind of their own,one man's hand seeks to take over the world!(I know this sounds dumb,but the story is quite good.) 2)The inhuman condition. A guy and his friends beat up a vagrant for fun,stealing from him a piece of knotted rope... That same day, the guy who took the knotted rope from the vagrant,begins to unravel it.With the unravelling of the rope his friends suddenly start to die out,one by one...And a lot of evil starts to be unleashed.The same vagrant whom was a victim has to help the guy battle this evil. 3)Revelations. Now this is a very fascinating story.A pastor and his wife goes to a motel,for some kind of vacation.The room in which they are staying was the scene of a murder. In this room the ghosts terrorize the couple. 4)Down satan. In this story a guy builds a place for satan on earth.A very short story.(not one of my favourite) 5)The age of desire. A very good story.In this story,a victim of an Aphrodisaic experiment run away from the lab and starts to uncontrollably have sex with people...But then he soon starts to rape and murder people and things start to get nasty... An overall fairly interesting book.I would recommend it....enjoy...Nigel. Clive Barker Take Us On The Nightmare Journey Of A Lifetime March 21, 2006 Mr. Sinister (El Cajon, CA USA) 10 out of 11 found this review helpful God, just talking about The Inhuman Condition makes me itch to read it all over again for the tenth time. Clive Barker, especially early Barker like In The Flesh, The Inhuman Condition & The Books Of Blood are so righteously killer, I can't help but re-reading them whenever I get the chance. Talk about visionary horror, Clive Barker turned the entire Horror Genre upside down with his fiction. Inventive, clever, well-written & above all, original, he was like the new incarnation of H.P. Lovecraft. Genius. The Inhuman Condition consists of five novellas: The Inhuman Condition: Some hoods roll a drunk and steal something very precious. A piece of rope with three knots in it. Nothing special, right? Well...once you untie the knots, something comes into being. Something terrible. Great story. The Body Politic: Charlie has the strangest thoughts. He thinks his hands are planning a revolt, plotting against him and the whole human race. Crazy, right? Well...when he wakes up to find that his hands have strangled his wife, he's not so sure any more. Another great, original story. Revelations!: A modern day ghost story with a small twist. An evangelsit and his troupe check into a motel where a murder most foul had taken place...so do the deceased couple, for they're there to recreate the murder or try and reconcile, who can tell. Witty and strange. Clive keeps us enthralled. Down, Satan: The only detraction from the book's brilliance. A rather short story about a man who wants to hang with Satan so he builds Hell on earth just for that very purpose. Bizare and dark, never really takes off as a full story. The Age Of Desire: Weird. That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think about this story. A group of scientists are doing experiments with hallucinogenic love drugs. The results are very interestng. Probably the most pornographic of all the stories. This one will make you wonder what really churns through Clive Barker's brain. Overall, an excellent incarnation of horror. Buy it, read it, love it. Dig it! Did a 10th grader write this? March 8, 2006 F. W. Pence 0 out of 17 found this review helpful This is a horribly written piece of garbage. Why it was published is a mystery to me. It needs to be proofread, spellchecked and re written. Th stories are nonsensical gross-outs that go nowhere and leave the reader feeling unsatisfied. This is pure bush league. What an embarrassment to literature. Try Stephen King for sophisticated, interesting horror. Great Collection of twisted fiction December 2, 2002 Quentin Xavier (USA) 4 out of 4 found this review helpful Again, I love Clive Barker. His work is just awe-inspiring. This collection borders on classic in the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Poe. Shoot, it doesn't just border, it crosses over. These stories will be remembered years to come, mark my words. Clive Barker is genius. His work is the real deal, he cannot be immitated. His craft is so incredible. The stories are horrifying, gruesome, and beautiful. The Body politic is terrifying as is the title story about a knot and the demons that hell unleashes when the knot is undone. This is great stuff. Why can't all authors have this ambition? Showing reviews 1-5 of 13 1 2 3 Next »

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