Blog Entries from OJB

  1. A study on Clive Barker part 34, The Damnation Game: Providence

    Welcome to my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at Chapter 1 of the Damnation Game, Providence. "After serving six years of his sentence at Wandsworth, Marty Strauss was used to waiting. He waited to wash and shave himself every morning; he waited to eat, he waited to defecate; he waited for freedom." - The opening of Scene 5, Clive Barker's The Damnation Game. In the opening sentence (which is beautifully crafted by the way) we meet the hero of the story, Marty Strauss....
  2. A study on Clive Barker part 33, The Damnation Game: Prologue.

    Welcome to part 33 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his first novel, The Damnation Game. - The Damnation Game is a Faustus story, a story about a man who makes a pact with the devil. The story begins with a Character simply called 'The Thief' looking for a person by the title of 'The Card player.' 'The Card player' is a rumored figure is said to never have lost a poker game. The Thief's motivation for wanting to play and beat 'The Card Player' is simply that he...
  3. A study on Clive Barker part 32, On Jerusalem Street. (Books of Blood final story)

    Ladies and Gentlemen, we've made it to the last story in Clive Barker's Books of Blood short story collection. Today we will be looking at the epilogue story, On Jerusalem Street. The epilogue is only a few pages long and tells of the last moments of McNeal, the young man from the first story whose body the ghost carved with stories into. He's been tracked down by a man by the name of Wyburd, who plans on flaying McNeal and turning his skin into an actual book. Wyburd kills and skins...
  4. A study on Clive Barker part 31, The Last Illusion

    Welcome to part 31 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story The Last Illusion. The Last Illusion introduces Clive Barker's second most famous character (his first being the Cenobite Pinhead) Harry D'Amour. Harry is a private detective that handles supernatural and occult-based cases. In the story, Harry is hired to corpse-watch the body of a man named Swann. Swann is a magician that made a deal with a devil; his soul for magical powers. Harry must protect...
  5. A study on Clive Barker part 30, Twilight at the Towers.

    Welcome to part 30 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story 'Twilight at the Towers.' Summary: The story, set in Berlin during the Cold War, tells the story of Ballard and his dealings with KBG member named Mironenko. Ballard is a spy for London who is trying to get Mironenko to defect to Britain. Mironenko, however, is really a werewolf (they are not called werewolves in the story but that would be the best way to describe them) who is looking for more of...
  6. A study on Clive Barker part 29, How Spoilers Bleed.

    Welcome to part 29 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story 'How the Spoilers Bleed.' Summary: The story tells the tale of Locke, and his men, as they try to drive a group of Indians of a piece of land in South America. The men shoot and kill a young boy which invokes the Indian's mystic to curse the group of men. The curse causes the men's bodies to fall apart from the simplest touch (A piece of dust cuts one of the men's arms wide open), and one by one...
  7. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 28, The Life of Death

    Welcome to part 28 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story, The Life of Death. Summary: The story tells the tale of Elaine, a woman who has just had a Hysterectomy and struggles to find meaning in her life. As she wanders the streets of her city, she comes across All Saints Church, which is being demolished. There, she meets a man by the name of Kavanagh and become interested in him; this interest leads Elain to explore All Saints Church were she stumble...
  8. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 27, In The Flesh.

    Welcome to part 27 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story 'In The Flesh.' Summary: The story tells the tale of Cleve, a prisoner, and his new cellmate, Billy. Billy is a young man who is obsessed with the history of his Grandfather, a man who had been hung at the prison a few decades earlier, and purposely got sent to prison in order to learn more about his Grandfather. While Billy attempts to learn about his Grandfather, Cleve begins to experience bizarre...
  9. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 26, Babel's Children.

    Welcome to part 26 of my study on Clive Barker. Today we will be looking at his short story 'Babel's Children.' - The story tells the tale of Vanessa and how her curious nature leads to finding a compound in the middle of no-where. There, she is taken a prisoner and tries to figure out what this place really is. Vanessa learns from an old man that is also a prisoner there a terrible secret about the world. All of the world's governments are all for show, and the political decisions are...
  10. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 25, The Madonna.

    Welcome to part 25 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story, The Madonna. The Madonna tells the tale of Jerry Coloqhoun and his plight to get Ezra Garvey to back a financial deal in order to redevelop a swimming pool complex. While the two explore of old complex, Ezra sees, out of the corner of his eye, a naked girl run by; Jerry, however, does not. After the meeting, Ezra returns back to the complex in order to find the girl. He encounters a different girl...
  11. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 24, The Forbidden.

    Welcome to part 24 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story 'The Forbidden.' For those who have seen the movie 'Candyman,' 'The Fordibben acts as the basis of the movie. The Forbidden tells the story of Helen, a college student, and her investigation into a run-down apartment complex and the use of bizarre graffiti that is been spray painted all across the complex. During her investigation, Helen hears rumors about a couple mysterious murders, but, no...
  12. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 23, The Age of Desire.

    Welcome to part 23 of my Study on Clive Baker. Today, we will be looking at his short story 'The Age of Desire.' The Age of desire is very much a mad scientist/Frankenstein story told from the POV of the monster and the cops that pursue him. The 'monster' of this story is a man named Jerome, who is given a medical shot that turns his sex drive violent. The experiment causes his body to become inflamed in a fire-like sensation, destroys all his sexual preferences (he is willing to have sex...
  13. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 22, Down, Satan!

    Welcome to part 22 of my study on Clive Barker. Today we will be looking at his short story, and I do mean short (only four pages) Down, Satan! The story tells the tale of Gregorius, and his quest to meet God. At first, Gregorius attempts to do good deeds in hopes that God will show himself to him. Obviously, this fails so Gregorius attempts a different plot. He builds a 'pleasure palace' for Satan in hopes that God will intervene. Gregorius constructs that palace -in all its horror- and...
  14. Horror: A study on Clive Barker part 21, Revelations.

    Welcome to part 21 of my study on Clive Barker. Today, we will be looking at his short story Revelations. 'Revelations' tells the story of two ghosts, Sadie and Buck. Sadie, tired of her husbands cheating way, had murdered her husband by shooting him in the chest with a gun. After a trail, Sadie was executed by the state of Texas. 30 years later, the two ghosts have returned to the motel where the murder took place in an attempt to work out their differences. The two ghosts come to the...
  15. Horror: A study on Cliver Barker part 20, The inhuman Condition.

    Welcome to part 20 of my study on Clive Barker. Today we will be looking at Clive Barker's short story The Inhuman Condition. The story begins with a gang of youths beating up Pope, a vagrant. Karney, the MC, is part of the group and ends up stealing a string with three knots on it (a knot puzzle) from the homeless man. Karney becomes obsessed with solving uniting the knots and works endlessly to solve the riddle. One night, while Karney is out with his friends, he unties the first knot and...
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