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Seventeen people answer an ad for a writers' retreat and lock themselves into an old theatre for three months, where they tell their worst stories and, to make better ones, set about sabotaging themselves.
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Books of Blood: Volume One
The first collection of the stories that made Barker's name, framed as tales written in blood on the skin of a fake medium, from a butcher at work on the late-night New York subway to two Yugoslav villages that build giants out of their own people.
Adjustment Day
A secret movement of disaffected young men carries out a coordinated day of killings against a list of elites and splits America into separate ethnic and sexual homelands.
Invisible Monsters
A fashion model with a ruined face reinvents herself as a series of disguises, hunting the people who destroyed her life.
Earthlings
As a girl, Natsuki believed a plush hedgehog from the planet Popinpobopia had given her magic powers, and her cousin Yuu believed he was an alien; as adults, unable to fit into the society she calls the Factory, they set out to escape it.
Naked Lunch
A drug addict's hallucinatory narrative dissolves plot, character, and language itself into a stream of images that broke every rule of what a novel could be.
A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.
The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart, a bored Manhattan psychiatrist, begins letting the roll of a die make his decisions, from the trivial to the criminal, and turns the idea into a therapy for his patients.
The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton, a man who has tried every pleasure, solves an antique puzzle box that promises more and summons the beings called Cenobites, and later, when his brother Rory and Rory's wife Julia move into the house, Julia finds that Frank is not entirely gone.
Cursed Bunny
Korean stories that mix folklore, body horror and capitalist dread: a cursed lamp shaped like a rabbit, a head that rises out of a toilet, a woman whose body turns strange, all told with a sly, deadpan cruelty.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
Tender Is the Flesh
In a world where a virus has made all animals toxic, a slaughterhouse worker processes the only remaining meat source: humans bred for consumption.
American Psycho
Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street banker obsessed with business cards, grooming and restaurant reservations, is also a serial killer, or says he is, in a satire of 1980s greed and male vanity.