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Podcast: Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad
Episode: Such Sights To Show: Episode 8 - Books of Blood Vol. 2
Description: Bryan and Joe are back to discuss Volume 2 of Clive Barker's short story collection, Books of Blood.This time we're a bit more conflicted about some of the dated elements, including the role of race in Hell's Event to the misogyny of Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament to the sexual assault of The Skins of our Fathers.Still, Barker's prose is great, from the body horror of Jacqueline Ess to the playfulness of Barker-fying Edgar Allan Poe in New Murders in the Rue Morgue. Plus: which are our fave stories (we don't...