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I really enjoyed reading this book but I didn't really care for at least two of the stories in the book, because it didn't really involve Freddy Krueger.
The introduction at the beginning of the book is helpful, if you have been living under a rock and somehow don't know who Freddy Krueger is.

Asleep at the wheel (5 stars)
This story was well written, it was easy to relate to and I like the band that is in the story and they type of music they write. Since I haven't read any Freddy Krueger novelizations before I was surprised and impressed by how gory and disturbing the way the characters die in their dreams.
I am really glad that I read this story I really liked it and the characters as well, although I think there should be a trigger warnings, because some of the characters are cut on their wrists or wrapped in barbed wire and bleeding from their wrists.
The way Luna and Rowan are killed are especially graphic and very violent. The way Luna is killed is excessively violent are really fucked up. I would only recommend this book to fans of horror films and fans of Freddy Krueger because it is quite gory.
I liked the description of Jim Morrison in this book, before he killed Pamela because he tricked her. The way the the main characters are killed is unique, interesting and fucked up. I wish this was made into a short film, it would be interesting to watch.

Briefcase full of blues (3 stars) I personally didn't like the plot of this story it was confusing, and didn't really relate much to Freddy Krueger, I don't even know what the gender of the character would be due to the way they were brought up, technically they are one specific gender but brought up as the opposite gender. I don't want to spoil the story for people who have not read this book yet but, I didn't enjoy reading it.

Miles to go before I sleep (5 stars) This story is about a married man that has a daughter that is a janitor at a school. Tha man doesn't like his job or his life, by chance he finds Freddy's knived glove and he is already wearing a red and green striped sweater, he kills some of the students at the school in their dreams, they are afraid of the janitor whenever they see him, but he doesn't understand exactly why that is. Eventually he kills his wife with Freddy's knives finger glove.

Le morte de Freddy (3 stars) A doctor is trying to help the Elm street teenagers that are all dreaming about Freddy Krueger by using experimental sleep methods to cure them of their nightmares but it is dangerous and no one has attempted to do the same before him.

Dead highway, lost roads (5 stars) This story is about a serial killer that was abused by his mother at a young age, until eventually he kills her to get revenge/justice for the way he was mistreated by his mother. The serial killer has learned to lucid dream (the ability to control your dreams or control the environment in your dreams) he enters the “dead highway” and this is eventually how he escapes from confinement when he is being transferred to another facility because he is awaiting his execution for murdering 257 people over a fifteen year period.

Close my eyes and I'll kiss you (4 stars) This story is about convicted murders on death row, that have a close relationship, i'm not sure if either man likes the other since they just hint at that being part of the story. One of the murderers feels remorse for killing a women and starts having nightmares. He does whatever he can to avoid falling asleep.

Not just a job (4 stars) A teenaged boy needs to find a job, by chance a vacancy mysteriously appears in the newspaper, eventually he starts having nightmares and sees Freddy who wants to recruit him. He finds out that his dad isn't who he thought he was, he turns out to be a serial killer.

Overall I enjoyed reading this book, but I would have liked it more if all the stories were actual gory, disturbing stories. I appreciate that not all the stories are the same thing regurgitated over and overt, the origins of Freddy Krueger as a child killer went into creepy/ disturbing detail into how, when or possibly why he kidnapped young children and killed them.
I can't remember which story it was in, ut it goes into creepy detail about how Freddy Krueger lured female children with barbie dolls and male children with tonga trucks which made me feel sick, but the crimes he committed were never proved due to lack of evidence so he got away with murder. This enraged the parents of the victims, so they decided to get revenge by beating him up and setting him on fire without and escape, to ensure he burned to death, only for him to return and take revenge on their children!

This book is the same format as the other bizarre crimes book I read but not many of the crimes, murders mentioned were actually “bizarre” in nature/theme etc..
I am surprised that particular !urderers were not mentioned such as: Amelia Dyer (she susposely looked after children/babies but killed them instead to gain money from the children's parents)
The casanova killer (an American serial killer) Belle Gunness, the monster of Florence, the beasts of satan (Satanists in a metal band, from Italy)
I like reading about historical crime, modern crimes that are either solved, a miscarriage of justice with a wrongful conviction bevause a confessioj was obtained while the person was pressured/manipulated to confessed to something they didn't do.
I'm angered, frustrated by the fact that trained professionals, still don't properly seal off a crime scene where a murder(s) have occurred, so then the crime svene is contaminated, and any useable forensic evidence is rendered useless, due to multiple people touching it, or walking all over the crime scene. It also really pisses me off when the police don't take a woman/man seriously when they have a abusive relationship with their boyfriend/girlfriend and tje person is stalking them, threatening to harm them or themselves to be emotionally manipulative.
The same indifference & “victim shaming” can apply to the police when a woman has been molested, raped, beaten up and the police don't believe the victim, they shame the victim for their behaviour and try to find a reason to say thos is what caused it to happen. Why is necessary for the police to look at the phone of a rape victim, other than to “victim shame “ them.
It's disgusting that any police officer would ever have the audacity to feel like they are justified in “victim shaming” any man or woman ever, especially when they didn't care enough about the victim of any type of crime to at least treat them with respect. They act indifferent, and with supperiority like they have a point to proof, but the way they investigated the crime(s) is lazy, incompetent, especially when fake evidence is planted at a crime scene to frame someone for a crime they didn't commit. So people have “confirmation bias” so the most logical person that could of committed a crime, did commit a crime without fotensic evidence to back up their reason for arresting the person responsible for the crime. I don't particularly trust the police, due to them being corrupt, a rapist, or more recently a British police officer murdered a woman in England that is the same age as myself, it's disturbing & disgusting.
It is frustrating that even when there is forensic evidence, it still isn't enough evidence to prove the right person was at the scene of a crime/or to prove in court that they are the correct person that committed a crime and would be convicted, and sentenced to time in prison.
I enjoyed reading this book, but I wish it included more crimes that are actually “bizarre” otherwise the book title is misleading.
Information about the Zodiac serial killer is inaccurate, he never made a phone call and said about having headaches, it was a hoax and had nothing to do withe real Zodisc serial killer that was never caught or identified.

As a long-term reader of “true-crime” I don't consider a lot of the cases that are mentioned in this book to be “bizarre” not unless the method or reason for murder was absurd which for some of the crimes it was. It is disappointing that only one chapter of this book is about bizarre murders, I expected the whole book to be about bizarre murders, murders committed by deranged people, a group of people, a solitary person for unknown reasons, their motive is unknown, their mondset is disturbed, abnormal, delusional, or most terrifying of all they are completely sane and in control of their thoughts, behaviour or actions. The title of tje book is misleading, but it did include a lit of crimez, murders that iknow about, due to my interest in true crime, I do not idolise serial killkers, they are sick perverts, and sadists. I am interrested in criminal psychology, forensics, crime scene investigation, profiling of geographical location, behavioural analysis and psychological profiling of the mindset/state of mind of a murderer, serial killer, serial rapist or anyone that commits sadistic, ritualistic murder continously be ause they are addictrd to overpowering other people, and taking wjat they want from them and it's done in such a way that they would never stop. It fulfils a sadistic nedd they have because they are a psychopath. I like studyong psychology, sociology, mental illness, occult related beliefs, people are moulded by w hat they experience in their luves, it can have a good or negative affect on a person psychologically. The nature versus nurture dabate, i think it is a mixture of both that moulds a petson into being either a good and caring person or a sadistic sadist, narcissistic psychopath that uses person for their own gain, they like playing mind games to avoid boredom.
The night stalker (the mexican satanist, serial killer is a good example)
I think some of the most disturbing cases mentioned in the book would have to be cases that involved cruelty to animals (it is a fetish called zoophilia, it means some people want to have sex with animals unfortunately. There is also another fetish that involves people that want to have sex with dead animals, a animal they have killed, it is truely disgusting and it makes me feel sick, that people like that exist in the world. Some people in the the world really are a sick pervert and to them nothing is off limits to them)
Some truely bizarre or disturbing cases that could have been mentioned are the following; The beasts of satan (Italian satanic/occult related murders) Katherine Knight (She was a butcher in a abattoir, she butchered her husband and cooked him, she is described as the female version of hannibal lector.
Issei Sagawa (He is a Japanese man that murdered a woman and consumed her flesh, he never went to prison or was ever convivted for cannibalism, he was never arrested for murder, cannibalism)
The Hinterkaifeck family murders (This has never been solved, and remains mysterious and creepy, since a whole family were lured by a stranger into their barn and murdered)
The servant girl annihilator, the villisca axe murder house, one of the most disturbing cases was the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs (a group of Russian people that attacked homeless people, and random people. They viciously attacked people with a hammer and other items and filmed it while they murdered innocent and defenceless people, just because they could)
Luka magnotta (tortured cats while he filmed it and posted it online, he also murdered a man, stabbed him with a ice pick, decapitated him, violated his corpse, while performing necrophilic acts he recorded everything he did and also posted this online for attention. He planned to make other “movies” as he called them so more people would have been murdered, if it wasn't for online activists for animals rights, online slueths that wanted to solve it, he wouldn't have been caught.
As a animal lover i am grateful to them and what they did to stop this narcissistic, attention seeking maniac)
The documentary “don't fuck wih cats” explains what happened but it's not for the squeamish.
Crimes, murders that involves children and and any crime that involves cannibalism, necrophilia, dissection and disarticulation (decapitating the head is usually for the purpose of falasio if the murderer is a necrophile/and to prevent identification. Disarticulation means head is decapitated from the corpse and the removal of all other limbs as well) pedophilia, incest and any very violent crimes that are committed for no apparent reason or motive is terrifying and will always remain unexplained. Pnly the murderer(s) will know why they have done such horrific and disturbing things to one or more human beings, some people bevome addicted to murder a nd they think they are invincible, above the law and that no one will ever catch them. A lot of serial killers seem to admire Jack the ripper, Ted Bundy and other serial killers such as the Zodiac or the Texakana phantom (A.K.A the moonlight murders) because their identity is unknown and they were not caught, but now due to advances in DNA and microscopic DNA or trace DNA testing techniques some unsolved crimes from 40 years ago are being solved today and the murderer is convicted for their crimes. The golden state killer (the original night stalkkett or A.K.A the East area rapist was caught due to his DNA being found and tested which is connected to burglaries, rapes, murders over a long period of time and he was a former police officer so he knew how to avoid being caught, arrested and convicted for his crimes for a long timne. Sam Little is also a good example, he was able to avoud being caught for 40-50 years, he murdered close to 100 women andhe w as able to avoid being caught by using a different surname that he had. There will be a book published about him this year. I look forward to reading it. Some of the cases I read about pissed me off due to the red flags that were clearly obvious behavioural warning signs that would eventually and unfortunately lead to multiple molestations, rapes, murders. Another aspect of the crimes was/is contamination of evidence at the crime scenes, DNA evidence not even being tested to exonerate or find the perpetrator(s) of a crime or series of crimes, false confessions (this usually occurs due to hours of intense interrogation, they feel pressured to confess, so they confess under duress) wrongful convictions based on flimsy, circumstantial or non existent evidence and false eye witness testimony of the whereabouts, or the convicted person when it was false. With all the modern technology that exists why aren't more crimes being solved, more people being exonerated of guilt and pardoned for wrongful convictions or the correct person(s) convicted of the crime(s)? I will never understand why based on previous medical examinations, why a second opinion or reassessment of the victim is not looked at more thoroughly to conclusively solve and correctly diagnose the cause of death beyond any reasonable doubt? The case about the woman that was raped and beaten to death, it was clear just from reading the entry in the book that the victim was raped and beaten, from the bruises described. I'm not medically trained, but I can figure that out !myself just from reading the details.
The greatest miscarriage of justice is not solving a crime, but it is even more of a insult for a medically trained professional to Not even recognize clear signs of rape, a physical beating and murder. To not correctly determine how a person has died, or how they were murdered, so it is incorrectly documented and the person responsible gets away with rape and murder. It disgusts me how the authorities act, they either don't care, “victim shame” the victims of crime and murders committed by serial killers or the victims are not even treated like they are a human being.
Just because a man or woman is a exotic dancer, stripper, or prostitute it doesn't mean that they should be treated like they aren't “worthy” of being of being considered a missing person, or a family member, friend being able to report them missing, dead or their whereabouts unknown for a certain amount of time. A lot of cases that involve serial killers and prostitutes, are unsolved, cold cases unfortunately. I don't understand the mentality of the police sometimes they treat anyone involved in prostitution, like it is their so-called “lifestyle” but not everyone lives like that, it's also not something they choose to do by choice, they may be in debt, a junkie or they do it to make ends meet due to poverty . The more I read about serial killers that rape, murder prostitutes, the more sympathy I have for them, they are a victim of their circumstances unfortunately.
I haven't read the previous book about the same subject matter, but I will read the previous book and review it when I receive the book and read it.

Clive Barker one of my favourite authors & the creator of Pinhead & Candyman released his creation Hellraiser in 1987 (the year I was born so I was destined to be a horror fan!)
I was lucky enough to find this book randomly on Etsy, I am very happy that it was available and I didn't know that the book was signed by Clive Barker until I started reading the book, so it made me very happy.
Pinhead is on of my favourite iconic characters
(I know Clive Barker refers to Pinhead as “The Black Pope of Hell” or the “Angel of Suffering” but he is otherwise known as Pinhead worldwide now)
I love the artwork, photographs, posters that are used in this book, I'm also very happy that the book is Signed by Clive Barker since I am a big fan of him and his artwork, short stories and films.
Pinhead, the Cenobites are very iconic, recognizable worldwide and they have a lot of fans.
I have always loved the sadomasochistic, gothic, demonic aesthetic that the cenobites have it is very unique and interesting.
I'm curious if the Cenobites would be considered to be interdimensional demons and if Pinhead would rule the realm that the Cenobites exist in or come from when they are summoned with the lament configuration box/puzzle.
In my opinion Pinhead & the Cenobites are either a necessary evil or neutral, in their approach to humanity since Pinhead is considered to be “a angel to some & a demon to others” he is similar to Lucifer. Loved, hated & feared.
The Cenobites represent all your darkest fantasies, dreams, secret desires that you have but would never admit to. They embrace pain, suffering, they endure & enjoy their on pain and suffering and the pain and suffering of others, to enable to metamorphosize themselves and transcend their human limitations to become something more, beyond just being a mere human, and mortal.
It's about enduring pain, suffering to transform, to be reborn, restored, made whole again, so they would be limitless as a human or as a Cenobite, the dream world/nightmare world of humanity has no limit of possibilities for suffering for the Cenobites.
They know what you desire, what you secretly want, what you fear.
The Cenobites are very similar to demons.
As a person that is a submissive, masochist, I can relate to this a lot.
Doug Bradley is one of my favourite actors, I like his narration for horror stories known as Spinechillers.
I wish he would record some more of them and read work written by Edgar Allan Poe or H.P. Lovecraft.
I always loved the dark, nightmarish realm that the Cenobites exist in, i'm not sure if it represents a aspect of Hell but it is very interesting to me.
This was a interesting book to read about the first three Hellraiser films, being made in the series of Hellraiser films and about the creation of Pinhead & the Cenobites by Clive Barker & portrayed by Doug Bradley in the films.
I still want to know more about the female Cenobites, if the Cenobites are immortal or considered to be a demonic Deities/Gods in their realm.
Like a lot of fans of the Hellraiser series I have various questions about Pinhead & the Cenobites. There are various graphic novels which I sadly haven't had the chance to read because they are very rare or hard to find now, but I have read The Hellbound Heart, which I liked and read in one day.
Hopefully more books about the Hellraiser films will be published about the making of the films, the creation of more male & female Cenobites in the future.
I would love to read the Hellraiser graphic novels, I wish they were reprinted and sold in a updated collection in hardcover that would great.

This book is interesting and helpful to to learn about psychic vampirism, (but it is associated with other forms of vampirism (sanguinarian, emotional vampirism, occult related vampirism) or other spiritual, mental/emotional/physical problems could also be the cause for some of the symptoms mentioned in the book.
Some people may have health problems that affect their energy, physical, mental/emotional wellbeing so if they are also psychic/an empath or sensitive emotionally/spiritually it will make them a target for spirits/entities, narcissists/psychopaths/sociopaths/cults or negative power vibrational energy people involved in the occult that want to deceive you so be careful. Heal your emotional wounds, or any damage to your aura/soul, release any self destructive habits in your life or anyone/anything that is a bad influence or harmful to you in any way. It's sad that not everyone is aware of the effect that vampiric can have on you in multiple ways, the long-term damage it can cause, all the problems it can create if people choose not to believe that is it even possible or real, or they ignore the problem until it gets worse.
Some people could have issues related to a past life, due to being psychic or a empath, spiritually sensitive to different vibrational energy of spirits, entities, other types of beings like angels/demons, elementals, survitors (thought thoughts)
Sleep paralysis caused by spirit's, demons and other types of beings such spectral vampires, vampiric spirits, witch's, occultist's, black magicians using astral projection, black magic or the aid of a being to cause harm to others, during sleep, taking their energy. (I don't believe that everyone involved in the occult is evil, or only involved in the occult to harm other people but a small minority of people are and they have sinister and malicious intentions and they don't care about the consequences or karmic cost of what they are doing unfortunately)
Emotional vampirism is never mentioned despite the fact that it has a similar effect to psychic vampirism but instead you're drained of your emotion energy on purpose by a emotional vampire. They project their pessimistic attitude and opinion onto others, to make other people feel sorry for them, so they will feel obliged to care or want to help them, but they only way they can get better is if they change themselves. Things would improve if they improve themselves mentally, physically, spiritually, psychically and to stop absorbing negativity into their aura which is damaging their aura, health, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.
The author is a bit repetitive sometimes in the book, so sometimes it seems like they are saying the same thing over and over and it's phrased verbatim. Sometimes it's annoying, while reading the book.
I did find the book, to be informaive, but if occult related vampirism, astral projection or obvious/subtle signs of vampiric was mentioned in depth then that would have been helpful. I think everyone should read this book,