- Author
- Not stated
- Published
- Undated
- Kind
- Fan wiki entry summarizing a short story
- Original
- absolutehorror.fandom.com/wiki/In_the_Hills,_the_Cities
- Subject
- Fiction and literature
- Themes
- Invented worlds
What it is
The Absolute Horror Wiki on Fandom hosts the page. No individual author is named. It states who wrote the story and where it first appeared. It then summarizes the plot.
What it says
- The page says Clive Barker wrote the novelette. It first appeared in Books of Blood, Volume I.
- It says two Yugoslav cities bind their citizens into giants every ten years.
- It says the Podujevo giant collapses and kills tens of thousands. Popolac's people go mad and keep walking.
- It says Mick and Judd, two vacationers, find the bodies. Popolac kills Judd at a farmhouse, and Mick joins it.
- It says a line from the story appears in a Nine Inch Nails song.
What evidence it gives
The page offers a plot summary only. It gives no quotes from the story and no outside sources. It cites nothing for the song link.
Interests and limits
The page is a short fan summary with no named author. It is not the story itself. The live page sits behind a Cloudflare check. This read used a public Internet Archive copy instead. The live page may differ. The archived text was read in full.