Son of Celluloid by Clive Barker and Les Edwards (adapted by Steve Niles).
Title: Son of Celluloid.
Author: Clive Barker (adapted by Steve Niles).
Artist: Les Edwards
Genre: Fiction, graphic novel, horror, thriller.
Country: U.K.
Language: English.
Publication Date: January 1, 1991 (Original story 1985).
Summary: An escaped convict dies behind a movie screen. After his death, his cancerous tumor gains sentience, over the years, from the strong emotions of the cinema's audiences and torments the few people that remain after a show.
My rating: 8/10.
♥ The word cancer wasn’t in Barberio’s vocabulary. He never thought about terminal disease, especially in reference to himself. That would be like a piece of slaughterhouse beef fretting about an ingrown hoof as it stepped up to meet the gun. A man in Barberio’s trade, surrounded by lethal tools, doesn’t expect to perish from malignancy in his belly. But that’s what the ache was.
♥ The space however, the air itself, had lived a life of its own in that fifty years. Like a reservoir, it had received the electric stares of a thousand eyes, of tens of thousands of eyes. Half a century of movie-goers had lived vicariously through the screen of the movie palace, pressing their sympathies and their passions on to the flickering illusion, the energy of their emotions gathering strength like a neglected cognac in that hidden passage of air.
Sooner or later, it must discharge itself. All it lacked was a catalyst. Until Barberio’s cancer.
♥ Ricky tasted something he hadn’t experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity.
♥ “You’re a goddess, whoever you are.”
“I’m yours. That’s who I am.”
It was the perfect answer. She was defining herself through him. I am a function of you; made for you out of you. The perfect fantasy.