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.

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 …

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.

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...

A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive Barker.The nightmare had begun....Boone knew that there was no place on this earth for him now; no happiness here, not even with Lori. He would let Hell claim him, let Death take him there.But Death itself seemed to shrink from Boone. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered, violated and shredded so many others' lives.And Decker had shown him the proof - the hellish photographs where the last victims were forever stilled, splayed in the last obscene moment of their torture.Boone's only refuge now was Midian - that awful, legendary place in which gathered the half-dead, the Nightbreed...

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.

Pinhead returns to screens in Fall 2022 in an all new Hellraiser streaming series! The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it's everything they've begged for and more. Bloody, terrifying, and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers alike will not be disappointed by the epic, visionary tale that is The Scarlet Gospels. Barker's horror will make your worst nightmares seem like bedtime stories. The Gospels are coming. Are you ready?

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

Including two of Clive Barker's classic stories from his groundbreaking collections Books of Blood, "The Body Politic" and "In the Flesh", exclusive content from the cinematic adaptation of "The Body Politic" and detailed information on the "In the Flesh" film that never came to be.

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.

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!A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.When the answer comes, its not one she expects.Welcome to the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day. Candy has a place in this extraordinary land: She is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heartforces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. Shes a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world.And in the Abarat, all things are possible.Don't miss this firstbook in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.

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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.