New Releases by Clive Barker

A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.

“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City Star From Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil. “Burn this book!” So warns Jakerbok, the spellbinding narrator of this fabulously original “memoir,” a tale of good and evil deliberately “lost” for nearly six hundred years. Jakerbok is no ordinary soul; he is a minion of hell with a terrifying plan to cast the world into darkness and despair—a plan thwarted by a young apprentice of Johannes Gutenberg who buried the one and only copy of this damnable manuscript that his master printed in 1438. Compelling and direct, Jakerbok shares the secrets of his life, going back centuries to recall the events that shaped his childhood, including the traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents, super demons themselves. He explains how he rose from “minor” to “major” demon status, and gleefully reveals his nefarious plot to “invade” the minds and hearts of unwitting humans everywhere thanks to the ingenious Gutenberg and his invention. “Burn this book!” he advises throughout—a taunt, a warning, and a command that will actually unleash the evil with which he has hidden in every word and every page, infusing the very ink and paper upon which they are printed. Inventive and irresistible, Mister B. Good reaffirms Clive Barker is one of our most brilliant and original voices, an artist with a keen insight into mysteries deep within the human heart.

The classic tale of supernatural obsession from the critically acclaimed master of darkness—and the inspiration for the cult classic film Hellraiser From his scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker. The Hellbound Heart is one of 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, desire and death, life and captivity, bells and blood. It is one of the most frightening stories you are likely to ever read. 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.

“[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the farthest reaches of the imagination.” —Washington Post From The Books of Blood to Hellraiser to Imajica, Abarat, and Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker’s extraordinary vision knows no bounds. With Coldheart Canyon, the New York Times bestselling master of dark fantasy who has been called “a cross between Stephen King and Gabriel Garcia Marquez” (Boston Herald) thrills readers with a “Hollywood ghost story” as audacious and chilling as anything he (or anyone else) has ever written. Film''s most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood Hills. But the original owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden. USA Today calls Barker''s novel, “Endlessly entertaining…wickedly enjoyable,” and fans everywhere will agree—a tense and winding trip down into the hellish depths of Coldheart Canyon is well worth making.

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.

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 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, and they will be eager to see it brought to life visually for the first time here. Distinguished from other male nude photography books, Rare Flesh presents a series of photo essays that each explores a different fantasy scenario that could have sprung from a Barker novel. Dozens of models of varying body types and backgrounds were chosen, and each was encouraged to act out his own personal dreamscape, working with the photographer. The images, fashioned with the latest digital technology, often play with the viewer''s perceptions, as many of the models are covered entirely in black body paint or shot against solid-color backgrounds. The results transform the body and tease the viewer, showing us the male form as we''ve never seen it before. This dynamic work is an intensely collaborative effort between Armstrong and Barker, who are life-partners, as the text delves into themes of love, betrayal, loneliness, and redemption.

A deluxe anthology of the Eisner-nominated mini-series bringing the best of Barker''s short stories to the comics medium. Barker''s stories are brought to a stunning visual realisation by the comics world''s greatest artistic talent, including John Bolton, P. Craig, Russell, Klaus Jansen, Tim Conrad, Stan Woch, Hector Gomex and more. Collected here are such horror classics as Skins of the Fathers'', ''Human Remains'', ''In the Hills, In the Cities'', ''Down Satan'', ''How Spoilers Bleed'', ''The Madonna'' and ''Hell''s Event''...just to name a few.

"Some of the stories in this volume have been previously published in Great Britain by Sphere Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Rich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned over American society for decades. But it is a family with dark, terrible secrets. Its adversaries are the Barbarossas, a clan whose timeless origins lie in myth. When Galilee, prodigal prince of the Barbarossa clan, meets Rachel, young bride of the Gearys'' own scion Mitchell, they fall in love, consumed by a passion that unleashes long-simmering hatreds. Old insanities arise, old adulteries are uncovered, and a seemingly invincible family will begin to wither, exposing its unholy roots.

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 Post Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we''re opened, we''re red... With 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.

John Furia Zacharias, Judith Odell y Pai?oh?Pah prosiguen su viaje por dimensiones desconocidas, en busca de la verdad que se oculta en algn lugar de la misteriosa Imajica. Un universo polidrico y oscuro, regido por leyes ms all de nuestro conocimiento; lejano pero, a la vez, a nuestro alcance. Una historia donde el erotismo y la pasin se entrelazan con el terror y la ambicin. Con esta novela se cierra la monumental aventura iniciada con Imajica: El Quinto Dominio.

A comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre.

In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove several children are born, the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity, and of Fletcher, a force for light, who has fought the Jaff across America.

Includes the titles, "Crazyface", in which a clown lands in Europe''s dark ages; "Paradise Street," in which Liverpool is transformed by time-travelers; and "Subtle Bodies," a play about the Sea of Dreams.

Three plays by the master of the macabre include "Colossus," in which master artist Goya experiences sudden redemption; "Frankenstein in Love," where an unusual wedding takes place; and "The History of the Devil," in which Lucifer is brought to trial.

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.

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Several Crime Stories.

Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him.

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 the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread.