...until he realizes that there are greater forces at work than he had ever thought. And there, I think, is a story with a perfect happy ending - he goes through hell and he comes through on the other side, utterly changed, utterly transformed.... At the end of 'In The Hills, The Cities', both protagonists die, but they gain meaning, extraordinary meaning. Perhaps not a meaning that one would want to celebrate... It's ambiguous. But when they see the beasts in the hills, some new vision is presented to them which hitherto they wouldn't even have been capable of imagining.... I very much like the ambiguity or the ambivalence of a moment which can be terrible and significant simultaneously, the way that many of the pivotal moments in our lives are very often rites of passage moments in which things are lost which can never be claimed again. Yet the territory ahead is, by virtue of the fact that it is new, also exciting and extraordinary."

Clive Barker on the books of blood

'Everyone's a book of blood; whenever we're opened we're red.'

"pivotal moments in our lives are very often rites of passage moments in which things are lost which can never be claimed again. Yet the territory ahead is, by virtue of the fact that it is new, also exciting and extraordinary"

Rawhead Rex rules!

Truly a dark personality

It's the sort of line that seems so obvious upon seeing, that one is embarrassed to be impressed by it but the joy and humor of it cannot be denied!

Not my line,I love it too!

Well,
We all need to somehow, someway understand ourselves don't we? But how do we deal with true understanding of oneself? Does it drive us to madness; to extremes?

Ah, well, I don't gotta shrink but hey I could use a referral baby