Clive Barker
1) Weaveworld
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Prosaic Liverpool clerk Calhoun Mooney falls into magic carpet and enters the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a race that holds the power to make magic or to destroy humanity.
2) Imajica
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Hunted through New York City by an assassin hired by her husband, Judith is saved by her former lover, John Zacharias, but the two are quickly thrust into the strange netherworlds of Imajica, where they must fight unspeakable evils.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A set of interrelated narratives featuring living and dead humans, golems, and fantastic creatures on a series of adventures.
"From the beginning of his distinguished career, Clive Barker has been the great visionary artist of contemporary dark fantasy, a form that Barker himself has termed 'the Fantastique.' Through his many novels, stories, paintings and films, he had presented us with unforgettable images of the monstrous and the sacred, the beautiful...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary "first city" known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation. Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as "Agonistes,"...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. Here then are the stories written on the Book of...
10) Cabal
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
From a power-invested ancient Roman statue that steals souls to long-dead movie stars resurrected to serve the forces of evil, these three collections of short stories combine the extraordinary with the ordinary, to create a nightmarish world of terror and the macabre.
15) Candyman
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A graduate student researching modern folklore discovers the spirit of a bitter slave.
16) Hellraiser
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
A woman is manipulated by the monstrous spirit of her husband's dead brother, who was also her lover.