‘The tears and blood and nightmare imagery are passionate and ingenious. Imajica is a ride with remarkable views’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Barker’s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-hitting horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind’
Mail on Sunday
‘An astonishing feat of the imagination, immensely engrossing, running riot with ideas, fantastical inventions, soul-terrors and emotional and intellectual resonances. Barker’s best yet’
Kirkus Reviews
The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
The classic novella filmed as Hellraiser.
At last he had solved the puzzle of Lemarchand’s box. He was standing on the threshold of a new world of heightened sensations.
In moments the Cenobites – who had dedicated an eternity to the pursuit of sensuality – would be here. They would reveal the dark secrets that would transform him for ever.
But with the exquisite pleasure would come pain beyond imagining. To escape his hideous tormentors and return to this world, he would need the help of his brother’s wife Julia, the woman who loved him. But most of all he would need blood.
‘A real marrow-melter … it plays on the darkest fears and fantastical obsessions of the human psyche: chilling and compelling.’
Scotsman
The Thief of Always
Clive Barker
A disturbing fable exploring childhood fears and delights from the maestro of dark fantasy.
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.
There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr Hood’s wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows its darker face – when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadow – that he comes to doubt Mr Hood’s philanthropy.
The House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr Hood has ambitions for his new guest, for Harvey’s soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years …
‘A dashingly produced fantasy with powerful drawings by the author’
Daily Telegraph
‘Barker puts the dark side back into childhood fantasy … A welcome modern-day return to classic form, this fable lives up to the publishers’ billing as a tale for all ages’
Publishers Weekly
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Abarat
Clive Barker
Candy lives in Chickentown USA: the most boring place in the world, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future may hold. She is soon to find out: swept out of our world by a giant wave, she finds herself in another place entirely …
The ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of the island of Midnight, ruled by Christopher Carrion.
Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she has been brought here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. She’s a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world.
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Everville
Clive Barker
Five years ago, in his bestseller The Great and Secret Show, Clive Barker mesmerised millions of readers worldwide with an extraordinary vision of human passions and possibilities. Welcome to a new volume in that epic adventure. Welcome to Everville.
On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that opens onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity. And there’s not a soul below who’ll not be changed by that fact…
Phoebe Cobb is about to forget her old life and go looking for her lost lover Joe Flicker in the world on the other side of that door; a strange, sensual wonderland the likes of which only Barker could make real.
Tesla Bombeck who knows what horrors lurk on the far side of Quiddity, must solve the mysteries of the city’s past if she is to keep those horrors from crossing the threshold.
Harry D’Amour, who has tracked the ultimate evil across America, will find it conjuring atrocities in the sunlit streets of Everville.
Step into Everville’s streets, and enter a world like no other…
‘Clive Barker is so good I am almost tongue-tied. What Barker does makes the rest of us look like we’ve been asleep for the last ten years … His stories are compulsorily readable and original. He is an important, exciting and enormously saleable writer.’
Stephen King
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Sacrament
Clive Barker
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.
‘A gripping book that weaves a compulsive spell … vintage Barker.’
The Times
‘Barker’s unique brand of eco-mysticism weaves as potent a spell as ever.’
Maxim
‘The premier metaphysicist of contemporary fiction. Breathtaking.’
Mister B. Gone
By Clive Barker
Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. 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.
‘Barker’s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind’
Mail on Sunday