Terrifying and forbidding subversive and insightful Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread. Stories: The Forbidden The Madonna Babel's Children In The Flesh