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Weaveworld (Paperback)
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Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of
nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best,
one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever
read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and
ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film,
Hellraiser. In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are
having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with
his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and
then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable
pleasures and unimaginable horror... Now Frank- or what is left of
Frank -waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was
before. All julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled
passions...and a little flesh and blood...
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Cabal (Paperback)
Clive Barker
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For more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction into a terrifying, transcendent genre all his own. With skillful prose, he enthralls even as he horrifies; with uncanny insight, he disturbs as profoundly as he reveals. Evoking revulsion and admiration, anticipation and dread, Barker's works explore the darkest contradictions of the human condition: our fear of life and our dreams of death.
Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ... From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones
The basis for the horror film "Hellraiser," this novella is a
nerve-shattering tale about the human heart and all the great
terrors and ecstasies within its endless domain.
Mr Hood's holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming
countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a
blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may
be satisfied. But there is a price to be paid. Harvey Swick finds
out about the dark side.
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Cabal (Paperback)
Clive Barker
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A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark
imaginative fiction, Clive Barker. The nightmare had begun....
Boone knew that there was no place on this earth for him now; no
happiness here, not even with Lori. He would let Hell claim him,
let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from
Boone. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had
shattered, violated and shredded so many others' lives. And Decker
had shown him the proof - the hellish photographs where the last
victims were forever stilled, splayed in the last obscene moment of
their torture. Boone's only refuge now was Midian - that awful,
legendary place in which gathered the half-dead, the Nightbreed...
In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove several children are born, the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity, and of Fletcher, a force for light, who has fought the Jaff across America.
Their prize is the Art, the greatest power known to mankind, a doorway to the dream-life of the species. To possess it, the two men intended to fight through their children. Until their children fall in love. Then all hell breaks loose.
This time, they will fight to the death, gathering their armies from the souls of Palomo Grove. Nightmares will walk the streets. Dreams will be made real. At last, the Grove will see the Great and Secret Show.
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a
quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by
the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the
paintings alone. The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an
archipelago of twenty-five islands - one for each hour of the day,
plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull,
dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown,
USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely,
one which links her to marvels and mysteries-and even to murder...
In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy
for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing
world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour.
Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to
capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl
from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world
of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic
she doesn't even remember learning? There is a mystery here. And
Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley,
suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take
control of the Abarat. Now Candy's companions must race against
time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she must solve
the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash
and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. A final war is
about to begin. And Candy is going to need to make some choices
that will change her life forever...
With a special introduction by Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of
the City, this is a unique selection of the author's best short
stories and extracts from his novels, chosen by Clive and
accompanied by a personal commentary which reveals the man behind
the art. Huge in scope, this unique collection examines the work of
a man who has taken us further than any other writer of modern
fiction: from the fantastic lands of The Fugue (Weaveworld) and the
Dominions (Imajica) to the uncharted waters of the dream sea,
Quiddity (The Great and Secret Show and Everville). His peerless
imagination has only been matched by both his storytelling - from
the groundbreaking series of short stories, the Books of Blood,
which served as a wake-up call to a floundering horror industry, to
the grand metaphysical vision of Galilee - and his ability to
create memorable characters such as Will Rabjohns (Sacrament),
Shadwell the salesman (Weaveworld) and Judith (Imajica). A unique
project by a unique author, The Essential Clive Barker will appeal
both to long-time fans of his work, and anyone with an interest in
great fiction.
The second volume of The Imajica - five dominions, four reconciled,
but one, the Earth, cut off, her inhabitants ignorant of the sea of
possibilites, the ocean of mystery and magic that lies within their
grasp. But the moment is approaching when the Earth will rightfully
be reunited.
A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite
Earths of the multiverse. Featuring Alix E. Harrow, Clive Barker,
Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Annallee Newitz, Alastair Reynolds
and more. Imagine infinite Earths, an endless universe containing
every possible world. What if the mistakes we make be taken back?
What if the war wasn't won, or that life wasn't saved, or that
heart wasn't broken? Explore the infinite potential of the
multiverse with the finest minds writing in science fiction today,
and see what could have been... Featuring stories from: Alix E.
Harrow Clive Barker Alastair Reynolds Ken Liu Charlie Jane Anders
Annalee Newitz Ian McDonald Lavie Tidhar Jeffrey Thomas Chana
Porter Paul Di Filippo Jayaprakash Satyamurthy Eugen Bacon Yukimi
Ogawa Alvaro Zinos Amaro D. R. G. Sugawara Rumi Kaneko.
The long-awaited return of the great master of horror. Mister B.
Gone is Barker's shockingly bone-chilling discovery of a
never-before-published demonic 'memoir' penned in the year 1438,
when it was printed - one copy only - and then buried until now by
an assistant who worked for the inventor of the printing press,
Johannes Gutenberg. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval
devil speaks directly to his reader-his tone murderous one moment,
seductive the next-is a never-before-published memoir allegedly
penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very
words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a
dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free
and exert its power. A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force
of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an
intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of
the battle between Good and Evil.
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back to the early days of two of
Clive Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil
as old as time. The gates to Hell are open and something beckons .
. . The last of Earth's magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite
Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their
knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to
take over Hell. Meanwhile, Private Investigator Harry D' Amour is
fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his
business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine. But while
investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a portal
between Hell and Earth. When Harry's nemesis Pinhead emerges
through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. After failing to
enlist Harry to pen his Scarlet Gospels - the epistles chronicling
the Hell Priest's grand coup - Pinhead instead captures Norma.
Harry realizes he must go through Hell - literally - to save her.
Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ... Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet.
Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of
twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day,
each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious
place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion,
Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley.
Candy Quackenbush, a 16-year old from Chickentown, Minnesota,
crosses by accident from our world into Abarat, and discovers she
has been there many, many times before. She has friends there and
she has enemies. As Candy makes her journey between all the islands
of the archipelago, she will discover a plot by Christopher Carrion
to block out the Sun, Moon and stars to achieve a condition of
Permanent Midnight. In order to prevent this disaster, Candy must
find the courage to confront the Lord of Midnight; and in doing so
come to know who she really is: a revelation which will transform
her own understanding of her place in the epic events. The first
book of Abarat is a spellbinding adventure for all ages, combining
the heartstopping tension of a thriller with the powerful charm of
the most enduring fable. And beneath all, it possesses the
quicksilver imagination of one of the finest writers at work today.
The four books of Abarat have been rightly called Clive Barker's
Narnia, his Wonderland. A sumptuous treat that will capture the
imaginations of adults and children alike.
Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the world's most
outstanding dark fantasist. WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the
imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture
and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting
the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the
last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to.
WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest,
titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of
imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a
promise... 'Barker's fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a
world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker
dislocates your mind.' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY.
Histories of British theatre between 1918 and 1939 have tended to
marginalize the commercial and mainstream in favour of the literary
or the politically motivated. This volume brings together a
collection of essays that reflect both a far more complex theatre
world than this strategy has allowed for, and scholarship on
mainstream and alternative theatres in the 1920s and 1930s.
Combining the popular with the commercial, the book includes
accounts of the craze for thriller and detective plays and musical
comedy and revue, alongside analyses of historical pageantry and
the development of politicized productions of Shakespeare. With
assessments of the representation of gender and sexuality in the
theatre, this volume not only unveils hitherto neglected theatre
practices but also places them in the context of a society
undergoing rapid social and cultural change. It will appeal to
advanced undergraduates and postgraduates and scholars interested
in twentieth-century British theatre.
A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the
salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the
traumatic events of his childhood. Will Rabjohns has everything.
He's handsome, he's rich, and he's revered as the world's greatest
wildlife photographer. He's also a haunted man, driven to risk his
life for his art - to capture the raw tragedy of the wild, the
beauty of nature's violence. After a near fatal encounter with a
polar bear, he lies in a coma. There he must relive a central
childhood memory: a meeting with ancient and terrible forces which
revealed to him the mystery at the heart of nature. And he realizes
that if he awakes, he must confront the darkness of his past and
wage a war, not only for his own soul, but for the soul of the
planet and every animal that breathes upon it.
Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after his
surgery has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him
just such a place in a luxurious forgotten mansion high in the
Hollywood Hills. But the original owner of the mansion was a
beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible
legacy of her deeds has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters
haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden . . .
Clive Barker's "Coldheart Canyon" showcases the boldly
innovative "New York Times" bestselling master at the very top of
his formidable and frightening skills. Clive Barker is the
internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books for
adults and children. He is also a widely acclaimed artist, film
producer, screenwriter, and director. He lives in Beverly Hills,
California.
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