260 pages · Released Oct 30, 2007 · Harper Collins
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Mister B. Gone is a mature horror novel by Clive Barker featuring a demonic narrator and disturbing supernatural content. The book is deliberately unsettling and designed to unsettle readers through psychological horror, graphic descriptions, and persistent menace rather than straightforward action. This is adult horror fiction that is not appropriate for typical young adult readers despite some YA-adjacent categorization; it demands maturity to handle its themes of evil, manipulation, and moral ambiguity.
Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next—is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year...Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next—is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power. A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.
