Cabal (novel)
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Cabal is a 1988 novella by British author Clive Barker. Like most of Barker's work it is a horror story. It was originally published in book form as a collection, comprising the novella and several short stories; the book title was also Cabal.
It features a young man named Boone, who is suffering from an unspecified mental illness. Although this is not serious enough to institutionalize him, he is nonetheless seeing a psychiatrist named Decker.
To his horror, Boone is informed by Decker during one session that he, Boone, is responsible for the brutal mutilation murders of eleven people that have terrorized the city recently. Boone is informed that he does not recall these horrors because his mind has blanked them out of his consciousness. Before he loses all hope, Boone begins to believe salvation may lie in a place called Midian, a semi-mythical city that offers sanctuary to monsters — both the human kind and otherwise. He hurridly sets off to seek Midian without realizing the full truth of the insidious events that lead him to such a decision.
Trivia
- The book was adapted into the 1990 movie Nightbreed, directed by Barker himself and with Craig Sheffer starring as Boone and David Cronenberg as Decker.
- British black metal band Cradle of Filth's fourth studio album, Midian, is loosely based on the book.
External links
| The Works of Clive Barker | |
| Novels, novellas, and Short story collections | |
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| Stand-alone: The Damnation Game | The Hellbound Heart | Weaveworld | Imajica | Books of Blood | The Thief of Always Sacrament | Galilee | Coldheart Canyon Books of the Art: The Great and Secret Show | Everville | The Abarat Quartet: Abarat > Short story collections: Books of Blood | Cabal | In the Flesh | The Inhuman Condition | The Scarlet Gospels |
| Films | |
| Directed by Clive Barker: Salome | The Forbidden | Hellraiser | Nightbreed | Lord of Illusions | Directed by others: Rawhead Rex | Underworld | Candyman | Quicksilver Highway | Saint Sinner | |
| Other | |
| Art collections: Clive Barker, Illustrator | | Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell Plays: ' | ' Video games: Clive Barker's Undying | |
| Recurring characters | |
| Cenobites | Pinhead | Harry D'Amour | |
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