![]() ![]() ![]() And in ""Stages,"" a drugged-out student takes ever greater doses of a hallucinogen (drugs are another common Barker theme) that allows him to participate psychically in sex acts he witnesses as a Peeping Tom. In ""Merry May,"" Campbell writes a spooky variation on one of Barker's favorite themes, that of a rural village harboring strange practices: here a music instructor ends up as the main sacrifice in a fertility rite. Appropriately, the two new stories reflect Barker's influence-as does the collection as a whole in its X-rated blend of sex and the occult. An adulatory introduction by horror's Wunderkind, fellow-Britisher Clive Barker, ushers in the tales: four date back to obscure printings of 10 years ago two were written for this book. ![]() Fortunately, the title's childish innuendo in no way reflects the mature, visceral content here: six sexually explicit and scary horror stories from talented and experimental Campbell, whose novels include The Hungry Moon, Obsession, and Incarnate. ![]()
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