Clive Barker

Abarat: Part 2. Days of Magic, Nights of War

Clive Barker

• 2004 Stoker–Youth winner
• Score: 10.54

Candy Quackenbush’s adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn’t even remember learning?

There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil their plans…

Abarat: Part 1. Abarat

Clive Barker

• 2002 Stoker–Youth nominee
• Score: 6.52

It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.

When the answer comes, it’s not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away.

Where? To the ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight…

Coldheart Canyon

Clive Barker

• 2001 IHG–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.51

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 his fan club, comes to the City of Angels determined to solve the mystery of Todd’s disappearance. Her journey will not be an easy one. The closer she gets to Todd the more of…

Lord of Illusions

Clive Barker

• 1996 Saturn-Horror nominee
• Score: 6.46

Scott Bakula stars as a detective who gets more than he bargained for in this shocking supernatural thriller that rips apart the boundaries between the art of illusion and the terrifying forces of magic.

Nightbreed

Clive Barker

• 1991 Saturn-Horror nominee
• Score: 6.41

Troubled twentysomething Craig Sheffer is haunted by violent dreams of serial killings and nocturnal invitations by misshapen creatures who live in a misty, mysterious land called Midia. Adapted and directed by Clive Barker (Hellraiser) from his novel Cabal, this tribute to the magical creatures of the night plays like a Jungian reinterpretation of classic myths with a modern twist. Nightbreed are the dead reborn as monsters of legend, fantasies, and nightmares who form their own outcast society in an underground city beneath an Alberta graveyard.…

Weaveworld

Clive Barker

• 1988 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.38

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 and imaginative artists.

The Damnation Game

Clive Barker

• 1986 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.36

A reclusive millionaire makes a deal with the devil. Just another horror tale? Don’t bet on it.

It’s from Clive Barker.

Abarat series

Clive Barker

 

Cabal

Clive Barker

For more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction into a terrifying, transcendent genre all his own. With skillful prose, he enthralls even as he horrifies; with uncanny insight, he disturbs as profoundly as he reveals. Evoking revulsion and admiration, anticipation and dread, Barker’s works explore the darkest contradictions of the human condition: our fear of life and our dreams of death.