Bøger af Clive Barker

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...Gathered together for the first time in one volume, here are fifteen mind-shattering stories from the awesome imagination of World Fantasy Award winning author Clive Barker. They will take you to the brink - and beyond ...

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned ...From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones ...

Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker."The most provocative tales of terror ever published."-The Washington PostWith the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. 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 films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. It is his powerful writing style and arresting imagery that have made Books of Blood a classic-and Clive Barker a cult phenomenon.

The Seerkind, a people who possess the power to make magic, have weaved themselves into a rug for safekeeping. Now, with the last human caretaker dead, a variety of humans vie for ownership of the rug.

"The Hellbound Heart" is one of Clive Barker's best, a nerve-shattering novella about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its endless domain. It is about greed and love, lovelessness and despair, desire and death, life and captivity, bells and blood. It is one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read.

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!All things in their time . . .Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this worldfamiliar?Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.A final war is about to begin. . . .Don't miss this second book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.

The horror story your students have been asking you for! The only children's story by the master of horror.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 discover 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 for a thousand years...

The gates to Hell are open and something beckons... The last of Earth's magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to take over Hell. Meanwhile, Private Investigator Harry D' Amour is fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine. But while investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a portal between Hell and Earth.When Harry's nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. After failing to enlist Harry to pen his Scarlet Gospels - the epistles chronicling the Hell Priest's grand coup - Pinhead instead captures Norma. Harry realizes he must go through Hell - literally - to save her.The long-anticipated new novel from bestselling author Clive Barker.

A book of revelations. A seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition and mythic horror. Clive Barker takes us on a voyage to worlds beyond our knowledge, but within our grasp.John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forger whose life is a series of lies. Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men, but belonging to none of them. Pie'oh'pah, a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. These three are united in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery, and will find the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God, and as secret as the human soul. They discover the Imajica.Imajica is many things: an epic novel of vast panoramas and intimate, obsessive passions, embracing ghosts and reflections as well as the human and the divine.

* Clive Barker's first novel.

"Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles where every childhood 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 shadows--that he comes to doubt Mr. Hood's philanthropy. But the house and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle. Mr. Hood has ambitions for his new guest, for Harvey's soul burns brighter than any he has encountered in ten centuries."--

Prima edizione Italiana della novella 'Tortured Souls - The Legend of Primordium' di Clive Barker (2001). Nella leggendaria '' prima città '' nota come Primordium, un'antica entità conosciuta come '' Agonistes '' ascolta le preghiere dei supplicanti, persone in cerca di riscatto dal potere assoluto dell'Imperatore e dal giogo della dinastia dei Perfetti, e li trasforma in una combinazione di arte, magia e dolore, in avatar di violenza e vendetta. Lucidique, il Mongroide, Il Maestro delle Falci e Venal Anatomica, le creazioni più aberranti di Agonistes, dominatore dell'oscuro deserto che circonda la città, e del folle scienziato Talisac, metteranno a ferro e fuoco Primordium, nel tentativo di rovesciare l'Impero. Una 'rivoluzione' a tinte horror. Illustrazione di copertina di Ban Baldwin, traduzione di Francesca Noto.

Prima edizione Italiana della novella 'Hellraiser: The Toll' (2018). Sequel canonico, ideato da Clive Barker e scritto da Mark Alan Miller, di 'Schiavi dell'Inferno' (The Hellbound Heart, 1986) e prequel di 'Vangeli di Sangue' (The Scarlet Gospels, 2015).Dal giorno del suo terribile incontro con i Cenobiti, la vita di Kirsty è cambiata, trasformandosi in una fuga senza sosta dalle creature infernali che hanno continuato a darle la caccia. A distanza di trent'anni, protetta da una falsa identità, spera di essere finalmente al sicuro, ma l'illusione s'infrange quando riceve una lettera. Un teologo che non ha mai conosciuto sostiene che il portale sull'Inferno si è riaperto e lei è la sola che possa richiuderlo. Fuggire per sempre o fronteggiare i demoni del passato tentando di porre fine all'incubo? La tentazione di continuare a nascondersi è forte, ma Kirsty decide infine di affrontare il suo destino a testa alta. L'isola del Diavolo, sarà questo il luogo maledetto quanto misterioso in cui dovrà recarsi per un confronto definitivo con Pinhead.Illustrazione di copertina di Daniele Serra. Illustrazioni interne di Clive Barker

The darkest hour draws near. . . .As Candy Quackenbush travels through the magical islands of Abarat and across the Sea of Izabella, horror looms on the horizon. But how can Candy hide when trouble finds her wherever she goes?She soon discovers a secret plot, masterminded by the diabolical Mater Motley, who is obsessed with becoming the Empress of the Islands. Her method is simple.She will darken the skies. She will obliterate the suns, moons, and stars.She will bring Absolute Midnight.

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"A spellbinding treat. . . . Galilee leaps through time and space to reveal an impressively majestic vision told in beautiful prose." --PeopleA classic early work from master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Clive BarkerRich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned over American society for decades. But it is a family with dark, terrible secrets. For the Gearys are a family at war. Their adversaries are the Barbarossas, a clan whose timeless origins lie in myth, whose mystical influence is felt in intense, sensual exchanges of flesh and soul. Now their battle is about to escalate.When Galilee, prodigal prince of the Barbarossa clan, meets Rachel, the young bride of the Gearys' own scion Mitchell, they fall in love, consumed by a passion that unleashes long-simmering hatred. Old insanities arise, old adulteries are uncovered, and a seemingly invincible family will begin to wither, exposing its unholy roots. . . .

You hold in your hands not a book at all, but a terrifying embodiment of purest evil. Can you feel the electric tingle in your fingers as you are absorbed by the demon Jakabok's tale of his unintentional ascent from the depths of the Inferno? Do you sense the cold dread worming its way into your bloodstream, your sinews, the marrow of your bones as you read more deeply into his earthly education and unspeakable acts? The filth you now grasp has been waiting patiently for you for nearly six hundred years. And now, before you are completely in its thrall, you would do well to follow the foul creature's admonition and destroy this abomination of ink and paper before you turn a single leaf and are lost forever.You have been warned.

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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.

"Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves." -- New York Times Book ReviewFrom master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker comes the spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy, The Great and Secret Show, that reveals once again the age-old battle between good and evil.On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss. Opening the door between worlds, Clive Barker delivers his characters into the heart of the human mystery; into a place of revelation, where the forces which have shaped our past--and are ready to destroy our future--are at work.

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. "A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horror fiction, editor David G. Hartwell traces the complex history of horror in literature back to the earliest short stories. The Dark Descent showcases the finest of these ever written--from the time-honored classics of masters of the form.

Ungjenta Candy Qvakkenholt bor i Kyllingbyen i USA. Fra ingensteds, midt inne i innlandet i Minnesota, dukker det opp et hav. Sammen med Jon Rakker, hopper hun ut i havet, og havner i Abaret. Abaret er et øyrike hvor hver øy er en time i døgnet. Candy's opplevelser i Abaret blir sadig merkeligere. Dette er den andre boka om Candy og øyriket Abarat.

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. 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.

Der Horrorklassiker jetzt als Hörbuch. Die Studentin Helen schreibt eine Arbeit über Graffiti und stößt in einem heruntergekommenen Viertel von Chicago auf den als „Candyman" bekannten Großstadtmythos. Als sie immer tiefer in die Recherche eintaucht, ist sie bald davon überzeugt, dass Candyman etwas mit erst kürzlich verübten Morden in der Gegend zu tun hat. „Das Verbotene" ist die Geschichte einer zum Leben erweckten Großstadtlegende und einer unterdrückten Community, die ihresgleichen beschützt.Clive Barker, geboren 1952 in Liverpool, ist ein britischer Schriftsteller und Regisseur für Fantasy- und Horrorbücher bzw. – filme. Bereits mit seinem ersten Band von Horrorkurzgeschichten, „Bücher des Blutes" (1984), feierte er große Erfolge und wurde mit Preisen ausgezeichnet. Es folgten weitere Bücher in dem Genre, und er begann auch die Drehbücher für die Verfilmung seiner Bücher zu schreiben. Barker lebt in Los Angeles.

Hr. Hoods feriehus har stået i 1.000 år og indbudt et utal af børn i sit favntag. Det er et miraklernes sted, et saligt sted fyldt med lækkerier og årstider, hvor hvert et barnligt indfald bliver imødekommet …Der er selvfølgelig en pris, der skal betales, men unge Harvey Swick, der er træt af sit kedelige liv og fortryllet af Hr. Hoods mirakler, stopper ikke for at overveje konsekvenserne. Det er først, da Huset viser sit mørkere ansigt – da Harvey opdager de ynkelige væsner, der dvæler i dets skygge – at han kommer til at tvivle på Hr. Hoods filantropi.Huset og dets mystiske arkitekt har dog ikke tænkt sig at slippe Harvey uden kamp. Hr. Hood har store planer med sin nye gæst, for Harveys sjæl brænder lysere, end nogen sjæl han er stødt på i 1.000 år …