Clive Barker

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Title: The Thief Of Always: Description:
Within, 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 childhood whim may be satisfied...for a price. In Book One, young Harvey Swick enters the house, mindless of the consequences.

Title: Galilee: Description:
A massive tale of secrets, corruption and magic between two feuding families - the powerful Gearys and the shadowy Barbarossas. EVERY FAMILY HAS A SECRET. As rich as the Rockefellers, as glamorous as the Kennedys, the Geary dynasty has held subtle sway over American life since the Civil War, brilliantly concealing the depths of its corruption. All that is about to change. For the Gearys are at war. Their enemies are another dynasty - the Barbarossas - whose origins lie not in history but in myth. When the prodigal prince of the Barbarossa clan, Galilee, falls in love with Rachel Geary, the pent-up loathing between the families erupts in a mutually destructive frenzy. Adulteries are laid bare. Secrets creep out. And insanity reigns. Galilee is a massive tale, mingling the sharp realism of Barker's bestseller Sacrament with the dark invention for which he's known worldwide, and surpassing both with an epic tale which will surely rank as the crowning achievement of his career.

Title: The Hellbound Heart: Description:
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most frightening stories you are ever likely to read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within.

Title: Abarat: Description:
With Abarat, Clive Barker begins an ambitious sequence of fantastic novels aimed at a young audience as well as his adult fans. There is as much sense of threat to the world here as there was in the horror novels with which he made his name. But the worst almost never happens here--and there is whimsy and charm along with a carefully judged and measured sense of the nightmarish. Young Cindy Quackenbush finds herself transported from the boredom of a Mid-Western chicken-packing town to the 25 islands of the Abarat--islands torn between the evil magician Christopher Carrion and the equally power-hungry rational capitalist Pixler. Each of the islands has a nature determined by an hour of the day--part of the pleasure of the book is seeing how Barker works this conceit out as Cindy travels from peril to peril. The book is literally a book of hours--in the Medieval sense; it's lavishly illustrated with over a hundred of Barker's striking paintings--much of its imagery was conceived of pictorially and then reinvented as story. This is a fine book--it is also a beautiful and charming object. --Roz Kaveney

Title: Imajica: Fifth Dimension - Reconciliation V. 2: Description:
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.

Title: The Great And Secret Show: Description:
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 Flecher, a force for light, who has fought Jaff across America.

Title: Books Of Blood: Vol 2: Description:
In the second volume of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood", five more horror tales - "Dread", "Hell's Event", "Jaqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament", "The Skins of the Fathers" and "New Murderers in the Rue Morgue".

Title: Cabal: Description:
A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive Barker. The nightmare had begun...Boone now knew for sure there was no place on this earth for him, 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 him. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered and 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 int he last obscene moment of their torture. Boone's only refuge now was Midian -- that awful, legendary place which gathered to itself in its monstrous embrace the half-dead, the Nightbreed...

Title: The Great And Secret Show (the Art): Description:
This fantasy novel by the author of "Weaveworld" describes a race to find the secret of "The Art" - a state of being or consciousness which allows its owner to transcend their humanity and enter into a heightened spiritual state - between Fletcher and the evil-intentioned Jaffe.

Title: Galilee: Description:
Raised in humble circumstances in North Carolina, Amy Honeycutt never dreamed she would marry anyone so glamorous, rich or wonderful as Mitchell Geary. But the Gearys are hiding a terrible secret, "Galilee", 200 years old and by no means human.

Title: Clive Barker Omnibus: Description:
This volume contains "Books of Blood" 1-3, comprising 15 stories from Clive Barker.

Title: Abarat: Description:
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet appearing at yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for 8 million dollars on the paintings alone. 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. Richly illustrated with dozens of dazzling full-colour paintings by the author, the four books of Abarat have been rightly called Clive Barker's Narnia, his Wonderland. A visual and literary treat that will capture the imnaginations of adults and children alike. From the Publisher Once upon a world where time is place...A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...Rich, wild and unpredictable - by turns tragic and comical - Barker's Abarat is a story that will capture the imagination of all readers, adult and children alike, offering a limitless landscape to visit and revisit. Abarat is the first installment of The Four Books of Abarat, a four-book series. From the Author " I am an imaginer. I think the heart of what I do lies in the shamanistic instict to be a walker between worlds"Clive Barker About the Author Clive Barker is the bestselling author of eighteen books. He is also an acclaimed film producer, and director. He lives in Beverly Hills, California Excerpted from Abarat by Clive Barker. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. IN THE GREAT HEADCANDY HAD ALWAYS PRIDED herself upon having a vivid imagination . When, for instance, she privately compared her dreams with those her brothers described over the breakfast table, or her friends at school exchanged at break, she always discovered her own night-visions were a lot wilder and weirder than anybody else’s. But there was nothing she could remember dreaming— by day or night—that came close to the sight that greeted her in the Great Head of the Yebba Dim Day. It was a city, a city built from the litter of the sea. The street beneath her feet was made from timbers that had clearly been in the water for a long time, and the walls were lined with barnacle encrusted stone. There were three columns supporting the roof, made of coral fragments cemented together. They were buzzing hives of life unto themselves; their elaborately constructed walls pierced with dozens of windows, from which light poured. There were three main streets that wound up and around these coral hives, and they were all lined with habitations and thronged with the Yebba Dim Day’s citizens. As far as Candy could see there were plenty of people whoresembled folks she might have expected to see on the streets of Chickentown , give or take a sartorial detail: a hat , a coat , a wooden snout. But for every one person that looked perfectly human, there were two who looked perfectly other than human. The children of a thousand marriages between humankind and the great bestiary ofthe Abarat were abroad on the streets of the city. Among those who passed her as she ventured up the street were creatures which seemed related to fish, to birds, to cats and dogs and lions and toads. And those were just the species she recognized.There were many more she did not; forms of face that her dream-life had never come near to showing her. Though she was cold, she didn’t care. Though she was weary to her marrow, and lost - oh so very lost - she didn’t care. This was a New World rising before her, and it was filled with every kind of diversity. A beautiful woman walked by wearing a hat like an aquarium. In it was a large fish whose poignant expression bore an uncanny resemblance to the woman on whose head it was balanced. A man half Candy’s size ran by with a second man half the first fellow’s size sit-ting in the hood of his robe, throwing nuts into the air. A creature with red ladders for legs was stalking its way through the crowd farther up the street , its enormous coxcomb bright orange. A cloud of blue smoke blew by, and as it passed a foggy face appeared in the cloud and smiled at Candy before the wind dispersed it. Everywhere she looked there was something to amaze. Besidesthe citizens there were countless animals in the city, wild and domesticated. White-faced monkeys, like troupes of clowns, were on the roofs baring their scarlet bottoms to passersby. Beasts the size of chinchillas but resembling golden lions ran back and forth along the power cables looped between the houses, while a snake, pure white but for its turquoise eyes, wove cunningly between thefeet of the crowd, chattering like an excited parrot. To her left a thing that might have had a lobster for a mother and Picasso for a father was clinging to a wall, drawing a flattering self-portrait on the white plaster with a stick of charcoal. To her right a man with a firebrand was trying to persuade a cow with an infestation of yellow grasshoppers leaping over its body to get out of his house. The grasshoppers weren’t the only insects in the city. Far from it. The air was filled with buzzing life. High overhead birds dined on clouds of mites that blazed like pinpricks of fire. Butterflies the size of Candy’s hand moved just above the heads of the crowd, and now and then alighted on a favored head, as though it were a flower.Some were transparent, their veins running with brilliant blue blood. Others were fleshy and fat; these the preferred food of a creature that was as decadently designed as a peacock, its body vestigial, its tail vast, painted with colors for which Candy had no name.

Title: Clive Barker's Nightbreed Chronicles: Description:
Author and film-maker, Clive Barker, combines with movie photographer, Murray Close to present a portrait gallery of monstrous deities from Barker's 1990 movie, "Nightbreed".

Title: Coldheart Canyon: Description:
Following extensive cosmetic surgery, Hollywood superstar Todd Pickett needs somewhere to hide away while his scars heal. His manager finds the ideal location, Coldheart Canyon - a dream-palace hidden away in a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on a map. In the 20s, 'A' list stars came to the Canyon to have the kind of parties nobody was supposed to know about. It wasn't just the wild sex and the drugs that made Amorette's parties so memorable. There was a door in the bowels of the dream-palace, which reputedly opened onto another world - the Devils' Country - where nothing was forbidden. Nothing. With his refuge now a prison, Todd needs to get out of Coldheart Canyon. But to do that he must not only solve its mysteries but also face the powers that have protected it for seven decades, and that means stepping through the door...As a Hollywood insider with a keen eye for its idiocies and horrors Clive Barker is uniquely positioned to write this vitriolic Tinseltown ghost story. Coldheart Canyon is an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Barker's books and films a worldwide phenomenon.

Title: Sacrament: Description:
Recovering from a suicide attempt that has left him in a coma, wildlife photographer Will Swift finds himself reliving the seminal events of his childhood. When he awakens he finds that the magic, horror and revelations he glimpsed as a child are returning to find him.

Title: Damnation Game, The: Description:
Chance had ruled Marty Strauss' life for as long as he could remember. Now his luck is turning. Parolled from prison, he becomes bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, one of the richest men in Europe. But Whitehead had played with chance to gain power and now forces are after him to claim his soul.

Title: Books Of Blood: Description:
Transfigurations by Michael Bishop First Edition 1979 Published by Berkley Publishing Company. This is a haunting story of a driven man's attempt to understand an Alien culture. This novel was a Nebula Award finalist. Mesmerizing.