> I recently read the Books Of Blood series
>by Clive Barker. They were much better than
>I expected. Usually horror seems vulgar and
>boring to me, focusing more on shock value
>than actual horror. The Books of Blood,
>however, were very disturbing, in a good way.
> Though they all seem to end the same way---
>the characters go insane.
>

I remember more being totally grossed out than scared when I read the first volume of the Books of Blood. It seems like the protagonist gets skinned alive in every story. Or at least gets his/her face ripped off.

-- Dave