Clive Barker's Weirdest Monster

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We’ve all seen slashers and demons and Lovecraftian tentacle monsters. But Clive Barker is one of the greatest imaginers of our time, and he has some miracles of horror to show us yet.

This story will bring you face to face with something you never thought you’d see, and question you may have forgotten to ask.

Let’s discuss In The Hills, The Cities, by Clive Barker.

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32 thoughts on “Clive Barker's Weirdest Monster”

  2. GATTAI!! Haha this kind of thing actually happens a lot in mecha. Getter Robo G ch.2 is the earliest example I can recall, along with Transformers: Infestation and more recently the Magnus Archives also used the concept in one of its later episodes.

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  5. You're pretty much the only reason (thus far) I joined Nebula. Other channels like Hellow Future Me, Just Write, Terrible Writing Advice, etc…. they're just in it for the controversial opinions and/or tearing stuff apart in the least helpful way possible, all the while trying to be both snarky and "intellectual" at once, and doing a poor job at it. You go deeper into the meaning of stuff and don't just needlessly complain about this or that without actually examining it thoroughly and, most importantly, objectively. I get art is subjective, but before you get to the subjective phase of destroying something for the pleasure of it (which is YouTube, Goodreads, Twitter, everything pop-culture in a nutshell nowadays), you take a step back and ponder whether kicking the thing will break your toe, and if it does, whether you could make the break work like Viggo Mortensen did in that one scene from The Two Towers. So, indeed, you're the one writing channel on YT that actually made me pay a subscription to a different streaming platform on integrity alone. Now gotta catch up with your videos that haven't been uploaded here, and then go see if Curiosity Stream has something other than engineering (now who's been snarky; daytime drinking and depression, man, they don't go well together). Anyway, thanks for this, and I'll try to catch up!

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  12. Reminds me of the sleepless from Stormlight Archives
    (spoilers)

    Sleepless are entities made up of thousands of small individual mini crabs. And one sleepless we meet has a philosophical discussion with one of the characters as to what body part would they be? Basically what function are they for the city and what role do they play in the organism of (city name that I forgot).

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  13. This is just legion from Castlevania. But damn is this way more fascinating. I love literature. I'm just to much of a coward to continue pursuing it since i no longer have much to write about since i live at home and never get to experience the outside world first hand…

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  18. Jud exemplifies something I don't understand about some characters in horror. That willingness to cling so hard onto a preconceived notion of "reality" or "believability," which only leads to their fragile mind shattering harder if the story goes in that direction. Like… Bruh. You saw the million gallons of blood flooding the street, you saw the hundreds of thousands of bodies, freshly dead, all at seemingly the same time, strapped together, and sprawled out in a humanoid shape. I'd think "believability" is no longer on the table. Maybe I'm missing something in the symbolism and his characterization, and should probably read it before making a statement on it.

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  20. I read it as a graphic novella and it affected me profoundly. Like one commented here one thing that bothered me was the idea that they sacrificed themselves for the ritual, especially thoose that voulantered as feet to the giants. They would probably die even if the ritual worked out. But the the thing that I found most disturbing was that the unfathomable was made comprehensive. I remembered having nightmares about being a being inside of a mindless giant made of flesh. The one thing that touched me the most though was Mick and Judd's relationship, that as a homosexual couple had the same yearning but also same doubts as hetrosexual couple tired of each others diffrences, something rarely seen in the decades where homosexual couples were portraied as a stereotypical caricatures of our gender enclosed world view.

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  27. I love how this story is just two gay men in a relationship of opposites seeing the impossible become possible. It's haunting, but oddly relatable. One is desperate to find something new beyond the norm, where one dies with a lack of imagination and wonder of the life be lost. It's beautiful, but disturbing.

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