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• Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium
• Clive Barker
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• 15 March 2018
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CHARACTERS ✓ Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium F this instantly absorbing creationWith great authority and eually great economy Tortured Souls expands to become a portrait of Primordium itself with its hierarchies its hidden mysteries its shifting power structure and most significantly its indelible cast of characters A perfectly controlled example of what Barker calls “the fantastiue” Tortured Souls is something truly special a story whose imaginative reach and sheer narrative power are evident on every page. A short series of closely connected tales surrounding the mythos of Agonistes rearranger of flesh and his role in the decline and fall of the corrupt city nation Primordium

CHARACTERS ✓ Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Bob EggletonTortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker At once violent and erotic brutal and strangely beautiful it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first city” known as Primordium the site of political upheaval passionate encounters and astonishing acts of transformationLurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient e. This novelette was originally written to help sell the Todd McFarlane designed figurines shown below It was sliced up into six pieces and each figurine came with a part of the larger storyBoth the collectibles and the story seem like attempts to out Clive Barker Clive BarkerI was entertained but not thrilledI d only recommend this to Barker completists like myself Succubus Revealed known as Primordium the site of political upheaval passionate encounters and astonishing acts of transformationLurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient e. This novelette was originally written to help sell the Todd McFarlane designed figurines shown below It was sliced up into six pieces and each figurine came with a part of the larger storyBoth the collectibles and the story seem like attempts to out Clive Barker Clive BarkerI was entertained but not thrilledI d only recommend this to Barker completists like myself

SUMMARY Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium

CHARACTERS ✓ Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium Ntity known as “Agonistes” who accepts the pleas of selected “Supplicants” transforming them through a combination of art magic and pain into avatars of violence and revengeThe story begins when a freelance assassin named Zarles Krieger commits a routine murder for hire This act will lead him to two life altering encounters one with the daughter of his victim the other with Agonistes himself This conjunction of the human and the inhuman stands at the center o. Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium by Clive Barker is a collection of vignettes that make of a fast paced beautifully written novella The stories were originally released to accompany a set of action figurestoy sculptures by Macfarlane toys That being Todd Macfarlane of comic book fame the artist creator of Spawn and arguably the best artist to ever draw Spider man But Barker does not slouch on this and creates an erotica bloody and disturbing tale in Tortured SoulsIt is an art what Agonistes achieves He claims it is The First Art this creation of new flesh being the art God used to call life into being Agonistes believes in God prays to Him night and morning thanking Him for making a world in which there is so much hopelessness and such a profound hunger for revenge that Supplicants will seek him out and beg him to reconfigure them in the image of their monstrous ideal And it appears that God apparently finds no offence in what Agonistes does because for two and a half thousand years he has walked the planet performing what he calls his holy art and no harm has come to him In fact he has prosperedIn the first city known as Primordium there is corruption and those that uestion the leadership find themselves in peril at the hands of hired assassins One such assassin is Zarles Krieger who in the course of committing a killing meets the daughter of his victim and in the ensuing days comes to find that he cannot continue in his ways Under her guidance he gives himself to the ancient entity Agonistes to be re made into a monstrous killing machine Once he is complete the new creature that once was Krieger goes forth and massacres the ruling family of Primordium But the remaining rulers of Primordium view Krieger as a threat and have monsters of their own to unleashTortured Souls is old style Clive Barker a remnant of what should have been part of the Books of Blood and the Hellraiser series rather than the fantasy driven novels that have been his recent tales Barker weaves the blood and gore with human emotions that border on the erotic The lovemaking at times as brutal as the killing Agonistes is a separate creature in all of this A legend created on the seventh day when God was tired and weakened from creation More demon than man yet doing only what he was created to do This is what the original Books of Blood were like when Barker was heralded as the new Stephen King and the future of horror Unfortunately it didn t hold that way as he went into the fantasy realm and horror in today s writing is as it isThis addition of Tortured Souls is also a release from Subterranean Press a small publishing house that supports horror fiction by re publishing classic modern horror and give a voice to new unknown horror writers todayA good and fun read Nine and a Half Weeks A Memoir of a Love Affair known as “Agonistes” who accepts the pleas of selected “Supplicants” transforming them through a combination of art magic and pain into avatars of violence and revengeThe story begins when a freelance assassin named Zarles Krieger commits a routine murder for hire This act will lead him to two life altering encounters one with the daughter of his victim the other with Agonistes himself This conjunction of the human and the inhuman stands at the center o. Tortured Souls The Legend of Primordium by Clive Barker is a collection of vignettes that make of a fast paced beautifully written novella The stories were originally released to accompany a set of action figurestoy sculptures by Macfarlane toys That being Todd Macfarlane of comic book fame the artist creator of Spawn and arguably the best artist to ever draw Spider man But Barker does not slouch on this and creates an erotica bloody and disturbing tale in Tortured SoulsIt is an art what Agonistes achieves He claims it is The First Art this creation of new flesh being the art God used to call life into being Agonistes believes in God prays to Him night and morning thanking Him for making a world in which there is so much hopelessness and such a profound hunger for revenge that Supplicants will seek him out and beg him to reconfigure them in the image of their monstrous ideal And it appears that God apparently finds no offence in what Agonistes does because for two and a half thousand years he has walked the planet performing what he calls his holy art and no harm has come to him In fact he has prosperedIn the first city The $5 Takeout Cookbook known as Primordium there is corruption and those that uestion the leadership find themselves in peril at the hands of hired assassins One such assassin is Zarles Krieger who in the course of committing a The Reluctant killing meets the daughter of his victim and in the ensuing days comes to find that he cannot continue in his ways Under her guidance he gives himself to the ancient entity Agonistes to be re made into a monstrous Vargens lilla lamm killing machine Once he is complete the new creature that once was Krieger goes forth and massacres the ruling family of Primordium But the remaining rulers of Primordium view Krieger as a threat and have monsters of their own to unleashTortured Souls is old style Clive Barker a remnant of what should have been part of the Books of Blood and the Hellraiser series rather than the fantasy driven novels that have been his recent tales Barker weaves the blood and gore with human emotions that border on the erotic The lovemaking at times as brutal as the Looking Good Dead killing Agonistes is a separate creature in all of this A legend created on the seventh day when God was tired and weakened from creation More demon than man yet doing only what he was created to do This is what the original Books of Blood were like when Barker was heralded as the new Stephen King and the future of horror Unfortunately it didn t hold that way as he went into the fantasy realm and horror in today s writing is as it isThis addition of Tortured Souls is also a release from Subterranean Press a small publishing house that supports horror fiction by re publishing classic modern horror and give a voice to new unknown horror writers todayA good and fun read