Barker sets the tone by describing at length an architectural dream that through neglect and lawlessness, has slowly turned into a nightmare. It’s set, not in Chicago, but in a bleak inner-city housing estate in the UK (the equivalent of ‘the Projects’ in the US). Yet there are many differences with its big-screen sibling.
It’s the story that eventually morphed into celluloid slasher Candyman. The Forbidden is one of the stand-out tales from Barker’s acclaimed Books of Blood series: a genre-redefining collection that prompted the horror high-priest Stephen King to proclaim breathlessly that ‘Clive Barker is so good I am almost literally tongue-tied.’ (For any horror fan not to have read these gory, otherworldly fables is a like a church-goer eschewing the New Testament.)
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