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Cabal is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood.
Jan 1, 1988 · Cabal is a novella by Barker that was the basis for the 1990 movie Nightbreed. It's a tale of a character named Boone who believes that he is a serial killer. During sessions with his therapist, Dr. Decker, he tries to convince Boone that he has to give himself up for the murders he committed.
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Jan 1, 2001 · With skillful prose, he enthralls even as he horrifies; with uncanny insight, he disturbs as profoundly as he reveals. Evoking revulsion and admiration, anticipation and dread, Barker's works explore the darkest contradictions of the human condition: our fear of life and our dreams of death.
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Cabal was written over the course of eight months in 1987 and published in 1988. Its appearance came hard on the heels of its author's two most successful projects to date: the screen debut of the first Hellraiser movie and the massive popularity of his break-out novel, Weaveworld.
Jan 1, 1988 · Editorial Reviews. Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories. Print length. 377 pages.
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Every Fear is a Desire. In London, September 1988 by Lisa Tuttle, Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden. "I wanted to do the reverse of what I did in Weaveworld which was to really cross the t's and dot the i's, give every detail of psychology and so on. In Cabal I wanted to present a piece of quicksilver adventuring in which you were just seeing ...
Feb 15, 1991 · Paperback – February 15, 1991. In the terrifying title story, a tortured soul called Boone seeks refuge in a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, where he finds the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. Only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction.
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