Cabal

You're not Nightbreed. You're meat. Meat for the beast.

The story:
This is the book that gave life to the film Nightbreed.

Aaron Boone has a terrible secret. The pictures his doctor, Decker, showed him, of butchered men, women and children, those are his work. And for someone like Boone, there is no forgiveness, and no place on earth. He has no right to happiness with Lori, his girlfriend.

In and out of hospices and mental wards, Boone had once heard of a place for the monsters. Those too terrible for the world, who cannot enter Heaven, and whose place isn't Hell. Midian.

And so his quest starts, the search for Midian, for a place where he can belong, and be accepted. But there are monsters and there are monsters, and not all monsters are without a soul. Among monsters, Boone must find his place, and find out who he really is.

Thoughts about the book:
At last, the night has a hero.

A different horror story, like most of Barker's stories. In this one, the monsters are the heroes. They're not good guys. They are not monsters only on the outside. But they have souls, and a yearning for something, for safety, and for a life and a place of their own.

The story is beautifully woven. And to see the horror stories, from the monsters' point of view, is a weird experience.

This is my favourite Barker-book, and my favourite horror story. There is little more to say.

About the author Clive Barker

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