I didn't think about it when I read it, but in retrospect I think it was an allegory for AIDs, especially since it was written in the mid 80s with AIDs in full blown, and Clive Barker is gay also
*In the Hills
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>>23539734It's the weakest story in the first volume, and strangely the only one without supernatural elements and the most oneiric of all.I don't know if it's about AIDS, OP, but I feel it's about moral decay, the need for a collective and even about humanity longing for the primal.
>>23540455It's better than the play one, easily. The characters are flat but the idea is insane.
>>23540471I really like the one about the theater. I'd say that maybe the pig one would be closer to the AIDS story you're thinking of, anon. In that one the ex-cop literally has a little pederastic thought about one of the boys, only to end up being killed by him in the end.
>>23540455Looks like Corey Booker
>>23540637Ramon is an honorary aryan and a poet.
>>23539734No. Although the Hellraiser books are an allegory for AIDs. If you fuck around and purely pursue hedonism, you will be plagued forever by demons (AIDs)
