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Title: Overrated
Review: I'm not big horror reader these days, but I used to read Stephen King, and always liked the darker fantasy stuff, not to mention all the splatter movies we used to watch in high school, so I wouldn't say I'm adverse to it. Barker has been widely hailed as "the future of horror," so I figured I'd take a gander at this collection of 16 stories originally published in 1984, to see what all the fuss what about. Well, maybe I'm just jaded or am too grounded to reality, but I found the seven stories I read to be fairly boring. There's plenty of blood, but nothing I found particularly shocking or scary. There are good premises here and there, but somewhat haphazard execution--which Barker himself obliquely acknowledges in his introduction.
