

She may or may not be undead, or the soul of a murdered person, or something of the sort.

well, due to the above difficulties, I don't really know, much. Oh well, not to worry - I'm hot/cold on Barker anyway, so it's a fair possibility I'd have thought it was rubbish, and I wasn't buying these for their storylines regardless. and like the second series, and the 12" versions of the first, the Infernal Parade figures that reached Australia were missing their fiction, so all I've got to go on are the snippets on the website. Like the first Tortured Souls series, each Infernal Parade figure was accompanied by a chapter of a Barker-penned novella. 2004's Infernal Parade was McFarlane's second collaboration with Barker, after 2001/2's two Tortured Souls series, and Todd's own experiment with jerking off to torture in the intervening year's Twisted Land of Oz. Goddess knows someone needs to spark people's sexual imagination - it's not like the porn industry's any good at it.Īnyway. I'm inclined to take the middle ground: yes, his stuff is mostly tarted-up kinky masturbation fodder, but that's a sorely neglected field of human endeavour that could really do with a genius or two to help it along. "I got a thousand different feelings for you,Īre you a Clive Barker fan, or are you not? Depending on the answer to that question, he's either a genius of imagination, or a guy who invents stuff that weirdos whack off to. B u y t h e t o y s, n o t t h e h y p e.
