'Every person is a book of blood. We are all scarlet when we are open.' Here the dead tell their stories by carving them on the bodies of the living. Here monstrous giants consisting of people roam, terrible secrets are hidden in the new York subway, ancient monsters come to life, and the line between fear and pleasure is as thin as ever. Here are the first three volumes of the legendary 'Books of blood' by Clive Barker. They are published in Russian for the first time under one cover and with a Foreword by the author. These stories have become classics not only of horror, but also of world literature. Bloody and poetic, sinister and provocative, they radically changed the genre of horror and are still unsurpassed examples of truly scary and dark stories.