Where the Monsters Live: Clive Barker’s Mutantopia

Short Story

Where the Monsters Live: Clive Barker’s Mutantopia

Sasha Ravitch

This essay details a modest exegesis on Clive Barker’s gospels of the monstrous body. Read together, Barker’s novellas The Hellbound Heart (1986) and Cabal (1988) make a twofold argument: That the monstrous body is in fact monstrous, and that this monstrous body possesses a power which can’t be co-opted by hegemonic institutions. Rather than allow […]

Where to Read

Thoughts

No thoughts shared

What did you think? Share your insights and share the scoop with fellow readers.

Group Reads