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Imajica
Clive Barker
AS MYSTERIOUS AS THE FACE OF GOD,
AS SECRET AS THE HUMAN SOUL
The Imajica – five Dominions, four reconciled, and one, the Earth, cut off from them, her inhabitants living in ignorance on the edge of a sea of possibilities, an ocean of mystery and magic. Only a few know of the Imajica, and many of them are frightened, for a shining mystical moment is approaching, a time when the Earth can be reunited with the other four Dominions – a time of Reconciliation
Racing to capture that moment are three memorable characters: Gentle, a master forger whose own life is a series of lies, Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men, but belonging to none of them, and Pie’oh’pah, a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. Together they embark on an epic journey through all five Dominions to the very border of the greatest mystery of all: the First Dominion, on the other side of which lies the Holy City of the Unbeheld, where their greatest hopes, or their deepest fears, will be realized.
‘The tears and blood and nightmare imagery are passionate and ingenious.
‘Barker’s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-hitting horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind’
‘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’
The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
The classic novella filmed as
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.’
The Thief of Always
Clive Barker
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’
‘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’
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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.
