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Clive Barker
Prolific creator of horror and fantasy books, films, comic books, and visual art

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Catalog Signing with Clive Barker

Nov.27.2007

Catalog Signing with Clive Barker

Open to the public, no admission charge.
Limit of 3 items per person, one of which must be an exhibition catalog.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.27.2011

Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“I know that many of you here have waited years for this Hour,” Mater Motley said, using that voice that, though it was barely conversational in volume, was somehow heard everywhere. “The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight, absolute and eternal.” And so begins a new chapter in the epic story of sixteen-year-old Candy Quackenbush and her journeys...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.31.2008

Clive Barker's Age of Desire

First time in print! Clive Barker's dark vision follows the last days of a genetically altered and homicidally ecstatic sexual compulsive.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.30.2007

Mister B. Gone

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...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.26.2006

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

The eagerly anticipated second volume of Clive Barker’s four part fantasy series, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, picks up right where the highly praised first novel leaves off. Candy Quakenbush is still on the run from the Lord of Midnight, Christopher Carrion, who plans to establish a Permanent Midnight throughout the 25 islanads that make up Abarat. Candy, aided and...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.27.2005

Visions of Heaven and Hell

Crack open Visions of Heaven and Hell, and you have unlocked a Pandora's box of images that are certain to stay inside your head. For more than twenty-five years, Barker has awed fans and critics alike with his groundbreaking works of fiction, but what few know is that the heart of his fantastic worlds lies in pictures. Now, for the first time, this book brings out from the dark...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.15.2004

The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three

Clive Barker illustrated this book about the West Memphis Three. On May 5th, 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys were brutally murdered. They were found bound ankle-to-wrist with their own shoelaces, severely beaten and dumped in a nearby stream. Several weeks passed and police were stumped—not even a suspect in the case. The public clamored for an arrest. A...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.19.2003

Rare Flesh

In the dark recesses of the human imagination lies an erotic potential that is rarely explored. Rare Flesh dares to venture into this taboo territory, pairing David E. Armstrong’s stunning male nudes with provocative poetry and prose by Clive Barker. Fans of Barker’s best-selling novels and films—from Weaveworld to Hellraiser—are already familiar with his unique brand of eroticism...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.05.2002

The Damnation Game

Sprung from prison to serve as bodyguard to a world-renowned reclusive industrialist, Londoner Marty Strauss knows the job isn't going to be easy. But what he finds surpasses his wildest nightmares—someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment for an old and terrible debt; someone who can animate the dead and co-opt the spirit of the young girl Marty has come to...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.27.2001

The Inhuman Condition

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread and evoking equal parts revulsion and delight.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2001

Coldheart Canyon

Hollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett. But time is catching up with him. He doesn't have the perfect looks he had last year. After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd needs somewhere to hide away for a few months while his scars heal. As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon—a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on any map—Tammy Lauper, the president of...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.03.2001

Weaveworld

Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world—and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror—a tour de force from one of today’s most forceful...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.30.2001

In the Flesh

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.02.2001

Cabal

Comprising a novel and four long stories, this volume is classic Barker, full of lurid, bloody imagery and action involving large-than-life characters. It's great fun and provides plenty of thrills or giggles, depending on how seriously you take it.

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PUBLISHED: Nov.03.1999

The Essential Clive Barker

Clive Barker, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, playwright, artist, producer, director, screenwriter, and one of the world’s master storytellers, writing in the haunting and moving traditions of Poe and Dickens, invites us to join him on a dazzling, wondrous journey through the worlds of his imagination and to experience visions, dreams, love, terror, heaven and...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.03.1999

The Great And Secret Show Volume 1

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, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.03.1999

Galilee

Galilee is Clive Barker's horrific version of a trashy nighttime soap opera (think Dynasty in particular). In a surprisingly romantic tale, a beautiful woman marries into a rich family—and discovers once and for all that money most certainly does not buy happiness.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.1998

Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3

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 the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies such as the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1998

Incarnations

Legions of Clive Barker fans will relish three early works from the wicked imagination of one of the best-known fantasy/horror writers of the decade. Incarnations is a cross-disciplinary marvel, a great, glorious feast of the imagination taking us on a journey through wildly varied theatrical and emotional terrains, from the pain and intrigue of domestic transgressions to the...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1995

The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2)

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...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.1992

The Thief of Always

In a tale that manages to be cute as well as horrifying, bestselling novelist and screenwriter Barker puts the dark side back into childhood fantasy, recalling the violent undercurrents of the Grimm Brothers’ tales and other classics. When archetypal ten-year-old Harvey Swick desperately wishes to be delivered from a boring February afternoon, he is miraculously rescued by Rictus,...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.1991

The Hellbound Heart

Frank Cotton’s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand’s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother’s love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back—though the price will be bloody and terrible—and there will certainly be hell to pay.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.1991

Imajica

Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution.

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Nov.29.2007 - 3:21 pm

Inside My Mortal Head

If I write a book a year and I live to be threescore and ten, my mortal span, I will still run out of years before I finish all the books I have in my head. –Me, quoted in The...

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Oct.25.2001

Published by The New York Times

A recent 16-page supplement to Publishers Weekly, titled “The Relaunch of Clive Barker,” breathlessly described the full range of Mr. Barker’s talents. He is not simply the...

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Audio: Fangoria Radio Interview

Video: Interview at the Weekend of Horrors 2007

About Clive

Clive Barker is an English author, film director, and visual artist. Barker was born in Liverpool, England. He studied English and philosophy at Liverpool University. Barker is one of the leading authors of contemporary horror/fantasy, writing in the...

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Clive BarkerProlific creator of horror and fantasy books, films, comic books, and visual art

Latest News & Events

Catalog Signing with Clive Barker

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Clive's Latest Blogs

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About Clive

Causes Clive Barker Supports

Clive Barker
Prolific creator of horror and fantasy books, films, comic books, and visual art