Most Popular Books by Clive Barker

The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape. There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It''s an epic in every way; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.

"Clive Barker''s career has been building up to The Great and Secret Show. . . . A cross between Gravity''s Rainbow and J.R.R. Tolkein''s Lord of the Rings, allusive and mythic, complex and entertaining. Extravagantly metaphorical, wildly symbolic." — New York Times In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, master storyteller Clive Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern visionary fiction and an intricately woven and meticulously constructed fantasy epic where past and future meet. The Art, the greatest power known to humankind, is the focus of struggle between the evil spirit, Jaff, and a force for light, Fletcher. Jaffe hopes to tap into The Art''s power while Fletcher wants to prevent it from being tainted. The conflict between the two men spills into the real world in a decades-long feud, distorting reality and affecting the entire human race. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.

Volume Six of Clive Barker''s seminal Books of Blood contains the stories: ''The Life of Death'', ''How Spoilers Bleed'', ''Twilight at the Towers'', ''The Last Illusion'', ''On Jerusalem Street''. With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror", and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this tour de force collection that rivals the dark masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. Read him and rediscover the true meaning of fear.

Visionary horror author Clive Barker’s entire comic book saga, Next Testament, is collected here for the very first time. GOD HAS RETURNED. GOD HELP US ALL. 20 For 20! Celebrate 20 years of BOOM! Studios with the entire Harvey Award-nominated saga from visionary horror author Clive Barker, collected here for the very first time. Julian Demond, captain of industry, has left behind everything to begin a walkabout -- he believes he''s on a mission from God. While in the wasteland, he comes across a figure unlike any other, who calls himself Wick...and claims to be God. Their journey will span the globe, as neither man merely wants to make a mark on a world, but a scar... Clive Barker and internationally acclaimed artist Haemi Jang (Hellraiser: The Road Below) come together to create a legendary work in the canon of one of the great writers of our era. Collects Clive Barker’s Next Testament #1-12.

Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong man they call Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo, who paints in a wagon pulled by a giant ¿Ibis bird,¿ the troupe wanders from adventure to adventure with mythic aplomb. From the first story, in which Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in the world leaves the show to join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, to the fabled court of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You will meet a young apple thief named Angelo with magic eyes, and an orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a host of other amazing characters with names and personas cut like a patchwork quilt from the mythologies and dreams of the world. Though written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same magical side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barker¿s fiction. Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth and leave you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that other place ¿ into those caves of ice ¿ if only long enough to catch Maximillian¿s show.

Volume One of Clive Barker''s seminal Books of Blood contains the stories: ''The Book of Blood'', ''The Midnight Meat Train'', ''The Yattering and Jack'', ''Pig Blood Blues'', ''Sex, Death and Starshine'', ''In the Hills, the Cities''. With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror", and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this tour de force collection that rivals the dark masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. Read him and rediscover the true meaning of fear.

The master of horror''s epic tale, adapted into a twelve-issue comic series and collected here in its entirety in a new deluxe paperback edition. From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe''s quest to possess the Art sets into motion a battle between forces light and dark. This lushly illustrated tale is equal parts horror, fantasy, and love by one of the masters of the genre. Also included is the one issue adaptation of the short story "Seduth," as well as annotations by writer Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez.

The second anthology of short story comics set in Barker''s incredibly popular horror film milieu, this book collects ten Hellraiser-themed offerings, in full-colour from an all-star line-up of comics writers and illustrators, including Larry Wachowski (The Matrix), John Bolton, John Van Fleet, Dwayne McDuffie, Dave Dorman and many others.

Once a novella bundled in ''Books of Blood'' and ''Cabal,'' Clive Barker''s ''The Last Illusion'' appears as a self-contained novel in this annotated edition.

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