THE BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOLUME 3

Five narrators deliver the latest Clive Barker collection of three horror stories, and each one more than pulls his or her weight. Barker, one of the premiere horror authors of our age, and the readers make the menacing stories of evil sound frighteningly real. Scott Brick takes the lead with the best story of the book, "Son of Celluloid," about a haunted movie theater. His crisp, no-nonsense delivery adds to the horror of people trying to survive a theater in which the movies come to life. "Confessions of a Pornographer's Shroud," in which a sheet covering a murdered man comes to life to avenge him, is classic. The sheer understated power of the narration makes the short story unforgettable. M.S. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2014]