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  • Bibliography:
    108 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Abarat

1 - Abarat (Oct-2002)
2 - Days of Magic, Nights of War (Oct-2004)
3 - Absolute Midnight (Oct-2011)

Book of the Art

1 - The Great and Secret Show (Aug-1989)
2 - Everville (Oct-1994)

Books of Blood

1 - Books of Blood, Volume 1 (1984)
2 - Books of Blood, Volume 2 (1984)
3 - Books of Blood, Volume 3 (1984)
4 - The Inhuman Condition (1985)
5 - In the Flesh (1985)
6 - Lord of the Illusions (1985)
7 - Books of Blood, Volume 7 (1986)

Imajica

1 - The Fifth Dominion (Jun-1995)
2 - The Reconciliation (Jun-1995)

Book List in Order: 108 titles



  • EVEN HORROR HAS ITS PERFECTION To a butcher, the carving of flesh is an art. As an artist, he knows where to slice the muscle, how to sever the clinging sinew from the bone. He studies the carcass like a lover. He knows how to section the dripping m...



  • EVERYBODY IS A BOOK OF BLOOD;WHEREVER WE'RE OPENED, WE'RE RED. -- Clive BarkerFew authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an aut...



  • You don't just read the Books of Blood. You experience them. You kneel to the power and the glory of "Rawhead Rex." Touch the silver screen horrors of "Son of Celluloid." Wash in the blood of "Scape-Goats." And bury forever the "Human Remains."...



  • Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...



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    cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...



  • In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment for an ancient debt. Reissue....



  • In the depths of an abandoned steam bath, strangely beautiful women seduce two businessmen into a ritual of macabre sexuality; in a Greek asylum, wise men race frogs to decide the fate of the world; a petty convict's cellmate reveals to him the grues...



  • Clive Barker, the most exciting new master of horror today, unleashes a world of powerful eroticism, violence and uncontrolled desires. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knot...










  • This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...



  • "CLIVE BARKER IS A SUDDEN MASTER OF THE HORROR GENRE....In Weaveworld, a prosaic Liverpool clerk named Calhoun Mooney falls into a magic carpet. He has entered the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a people with the power to make magic...



  • In the terrifying title story, a tortured soul called Boone seeks refuge in a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, where he finds the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. Only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction. And only...



  • Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war The Great and Secret Show ...






  • Collected here for the first time are some of Clive Barker's favorite tales from the chilling horror series based on his mythology - a compendium of hellish tales of terror the movies don't dare unleash....



  • "Rich in plot twists, byzantine intrigues and hidden secrets, Imajica is a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale. . . Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds."  --  Washington Post Book WorldFrom master ...






  • Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless real...




  • 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 childhood whim may be satisfied... There is a price to be paid, of...



  • Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He is the worldwide bestselling author of the Books of Blood, and numerous novels including Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, Sacrament and Galilee. In addition to his work as a novelist and short story w...



  • She nearly died on the operating table...masked men removed the cancers, and her womb...but Elaine Rider lived on, mourning. Until, after a midnight visit to the newly opened crypt of All Saints Church - a plague pit heaped with bodies, festering now...




  • "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 understa...






  • 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 mi...






  • LIVING AND DYING, WE FEED THE FIRE. Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its d...



  • There has never been a storyteller quite like Clive Barker an erudite classicist who has created some of the most potent cinematic nightmares of our time; a prolific bestseller who combines a contemporary sensibility with the literary elegance of an ...



  • Twenty-three short horror stories include the works of such writers as F. Paul Wilson, Charles de Lint, Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, David Morrell, Rick Hautala, Katherine Ramsland, and Ray Bradbury. Original....




  • 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....



  • 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 horro...



  • An illustrated volume compiled from the BBC television miniseries offers a personal tour of the real stories and people who inspired Barker's work, from serial killers and rebel artists to legendary monsters and Hollywood stars....



  • Rich 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, ...



  • 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 Holly-wood Hills. But the original owner of the mansi...



  • A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer co...






  • 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 Minnes...



  • Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader--his tone murderous one moment, seductive th...



  • 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-bel...




  • Maximillian Bacchus is the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze girl named Ophelia, a strong mane they call Hero, which is short for Hieronymus a c...



  • From the man who has brought you twenty books of dark fiction and fantasy, unforgettable horror movies such HELLRAISER and CANDYMAN, and countless paintings and illustrations, this is the first-ever collection of Clive Barker s nonfiction. Representi...



  • "I know that many of you here have waited years for this Hour," Mater Motley said, using that voice that, though it was barely conversational in volume, was somehow heard everywhere. "The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight...



  • Hell has come home as Clive Barker returns to writing his signature creation!Clive Barker has “touched” Hellraiser only twice before: once to write The Hellbound Heart, and once more to write and direct the original Hellraiser film. With the HELL...



    • Master storyteller Clive Barker is no stranger to graphic novel adaptations of his work, and this massive omnibus collects three of his IDW projects! This volume starts off with The Thief of Always, moves on to the epic twelve-part The Great...



  • Straight from the far reaches of Hell, comes a collection of classic HELLRAISER tales that will light your soul on fire! This must-have collection features stories originally published by Marvel Comics--classic spine-tinglers for die-hard fans and ne...






  • One of the greatest horror franchises of all time returns, now under the control of its original creator! Now witness Barker's long-awaited return to tell a new chapter in the series' official continuity,”a trajectory that will forever change the...



  • One of the most popular horror movie series of all time spawned a landmark comics anthology edited by the Master of Horror himself, Clive Barker. Featuring short stories written/illustrated by top-drawer comics talent like Alex Ross, Mike Mignola and...



  • "The Canons of Pain" - A puzzle box captured during the Crusades becomes the focus of dark rituals. Art by John Bolton. (1989)"Razing Hell Part 1, Stolen Time"- A famous author finds his way out of hell by solving a puzzle. Art by Mark Pacella. (1994...



  • All the best of Barker is here! The Tapping the Vein Graphic Novel collects Barker's Eisner-nominated anthology mini-series, with illustrators such as John Bolton, P. Craig Russell, Klaus Janson, and more!...



  • "This is a terrifically absorbing, thought-provoking and finely crafted anthology encompassing a grand thematic structure. Bravo!" - Creature Feature Tomb of Dark Delights.Torn Realities is not the typical Lovecraft Cthulhu anthology.Torn Realities ...



  • Clive Barker returns to write Hellraiser for the first time since the original film, and the results are more shocking than you could ever imagine!Clive Barker’s shocking return to Hellraiser continues! Pinhead, Hell’s priestly servant, has grown...



  • From Clive Barker’s twisted visions of Hell, Pinhead and the rest of Leviathan’s minions bring you these classic tales of Hellraiser horror!Straight from the far reaches of Hell, comes a collection of classic HELLRAISER tales that will light your...



  • Hell has come home as Clive Barker returns to writing his signature creation!Clive Barker has “touched” Hellraiser only twice before: once to write The Hellbound Heart, and once more to write and direct the original Hellraiser film. With the HELL...



  • Hell has come home as Clive Barker returns to writing his signature creation!We pick up after the devastating battle between Captain Elliott Spencer and Kirsty Cotton that literally tore a world apart. The fight may have stopped, but there’s still ...



  • It’s Pinhead vs Pinhead in Hell!A new ongoing HELLRAISER series! The showdown every fan has been waiting for! As promised, Clive Barker did not only return to the Hellraiser universe, he re-imagined it! Nothing is as simple as it seems " the old ...



  • TOM REQUIEM Clive Barker LITTLE RED'S TANGO Peter Straub HOLOGRAM SKULL COVER Jeff Strand LUX ET VERITAS Thomas F. Monteleone DEVOTION J. F. Gonzalez INN CLEANING Stephen R. Bissette BREATHE MY NAME Christopher Golden MAGDALA AMYGDALA Lucy A. Snyder ...



  • CLIVE BARKER'S FIRST TALESThe book begins with "The Wood on the Hill", a short story about a bourgeois woman who is soon to learn a terrifying lesson concerning her complete disregard for anyone other than herself. The second tale, "The Candle in the...



  • Welcome to the world of Chiliad, an astonishing two-part novella by the incomparable Clive Barker. A brilliantly composed narrative filled with unforgettable images, this visionary meditation on time, history, and human suffering is surely one of Bar...



  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser epic continues with a war among Pinheads!Clive Barker’s reimagining of the HELLRAISER franchise continues, as the new Pope of Hell, Harry D’Amour, discovers why he was chosen for his new role, while his former allies que...



  • In 1984 the Books of Blood by Clive Barker were published and quickly gained a following worldwide. Literary eminences like Stephen King noticed early on the creativity and powerful prose throughout the Books of Blood, bringing Clive Barker's stories...



  • The new high priest of Hell has been revealed: Harry D'Amour. As the former detective tries to adjust to his new life, he is besieged by constant assassination attempts by other Cenobites while his former human allies fight amongst themselves. Meanwh...



  • Named the best mini-series of 2013 by Bloody Disgusting, this trade paperback collects the first arc of Clive Barker's original comic book creation, with collaborators Mark Miller (HELLRAISER) and Haemi Jang (HELLRAISER: THE ROAD BELOW). Julian Demon...



  • WHY BOOM! LOVES IT: Comics are full of outcast characters, but this is an outcast story, Clive Barker-style. True to this modern horror master's other work, NIGHTBREED is full of horrifying creatures that captivated us in the 1990 film and live on in...



  • The Nightbreed have always been with us. As Peloquin makes meat of slave owners, he will soon discover his true hatred for naturals. The only ones to trust are those made of the night. In another time, a world away, Shuna Sassi only knows a life of f...



  • Without a home to call their own, the Nightbreed must escape the world of the living and find a life away from humanity. As Peloquin makes meat of the naturals in the south, Shuna Sassi must discover what it means to truly be haunted. Without Midian,...



  • Step into the Bestiary for all-new tales of the LeMarchand Device and its guardians! This first issue contains the start of a six-part serial written by Mark Miller (CLIVE BARKER'S NEXT TESTAMENT) and Ben Meares (HELLRAISER ANNUAL 2013), and drawn by...



  • The journey into the Bestiary continues! In this issue, Christopher Taylor and Jason Shawn Alexander tell a tale of a blues singer who possesses a very unique guitar, while in the second part of "The Hunted," we learn just who hired the mercenaries t...



  • "A monster lies in wait in me." The faith that once kept the demon inside at bay is abandoned. Ashberry's quest for the end times will break the beast out in full form. In another time and another nightmare, Chocolat must rip her children free from t...



  • A new story arc begins in the 1920s where Annastajia, a once prominent beauty of the silent film era, must fight after a botched skin graft comes to life and grows its own body out of her features. On the other side of time, Lude, the offspring of a ...



  • Kirsty Cotton has gone from a human resisting the forces of Hell, to the ruler of light in the darkest of places. Shortly after becoming Hell's Priestess, she was called to New Orleans by a holder of the LeMarchand Device -- a woman looking to end a ...



  • The trip through The Cenobites' Bestiary continues! This month, Ed Brisson (Sheltered) and Alexis Ziritt (The Package) show us how smartphones and the LeMarchand Device are connected in Conduit, while in Puzzled, a young man with an aptitude for solv...



  • The netherworld has a new ruler, but chaos still reigns as the war in Hell rages on!Kirsty Cotton, Elliott Spencer, and Harry D’Amour have all played multiple roles in the battles between Heaven and Hell -- but now, each plays a part in the war wit...



  • Boone must learn what it means to be a god of man and a god of beast. In Annastajia's search for beauty, a monster will be born from her imperfections. Lude, the demon of a god long past, will live a lifetime of jest in the face of an eternity of cha...



  • The three people to serve as Pinhead-Elliott Spencer, Kirsty Cotton, and Harry D'Amour-have been thrown into various factions fighting a war between Hells that threatens to destroy all of humanity. As the divisions between dimensions dissolve, each o...



  • The descent into darkness continues with more all-new tales of the Cenobites! First, in "Study," Lela Gwenn and Daniele Serra follow a anthropologist who goes from observer to subject, while in the continuing story "The Hunted," Pinhead begins his co...



  • The lives of the Nightbreed will always spiral down to the catacombs of Midian. Boone must confront his inner demons and relive the life that brought him to this place of darkness. Through the story of Otis and Clay's self-betrayal he may just find t...



  • As we venture deeper into the Bestiary, Michael Moreci (HOAX HUNTERS) and Paolo Villanelli take the puzzle box through a hospital in Don't Look, while in the penultimate chapter of The Hunted, Pinhead finds some unexpected help in his fight against t...



  • As the stories of the Breed come to an end, Boone must face his past and embrace his demons. The man he was must be lost so that Cabal can rise! Alongside his journey, the story of Otis and Clay will bring the worst of enemies together as one....



  • The final chapter of this Hellraiser anthology arrives with perhaps its most shocking stories, as Christopher Sebela (Dead Letters) teams up with Matt Battaglia for a tale of a hoarder unlike any you've seen on reality TV. Also, Ben Meares and Peter ...



  • Everything comes down to this! After living among their people and being set up as their savior, Boone abandons everything for the one he loves most: Lori. Seeing war as an inevitability, Lylesburg must ready the Breed for the end. What becomes of mo...



  • What if God came back and told us we'd gotten it all wrong?God has returned to the world in a manner that only horror master Clive Barker could imagine. His name is Wick and he is the God of Colors, the god of the Old Testament, and he is displeased ...



  • As Midian crumbles, the Nightbreed are forced to the surface world once more to face all of mankind's hate and zealot rage. After betraying his people for the woman he loves, Boone now finds a new fire burning within him. The Chosen One will finally...



  • Rebuilding Midian has been no easy feat for Cabal and his people. But as the world of Nightbreed grows, the world will have to either embrace the dark or snuff the very existence of the Breed once and for all....



  • ''Tortured Souls'' is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary ''first city'' ...




  • What's to Love: Before Fables, before Once Upon a Time, Clive Barker created a secret city of monsters that live among us. Don't worry if you've never seen the film: Clive Barker and writer Marc Andreyko (Batwoman, Manhunter), along with Piotr Kowal...



  • Clive Barker, Heather Graham, Lisa Morton, Ray Garton, and Ed Gorman lead readers down a twisted labyrinth of terror, horror, and suspense in Dark Screams: Volume Four, from Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of the revered Cemetery Dance Public...



  • Nominated for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!An all-original horror anthology set in the world of Clive Barker's cult film masterpiece, Nightbreed, and including stories by Seanan McGuire, Amber Benson, Karl Alexander, Nancy Holder, an...



  • The last chapter of Clive Barker's Next Testament!The otherworldly being known as Wick has conquered the planet -- after multiple displays of force that have severely damaged the world's travel and telecommunications systems, he rules the world unopp...



  • Tonight, Again marks Clive Barker's first collection since The Books of Blood over 25 years ago. It contains more than thirty primarily erotic short stories and vignettes (most of them previously unpublished), along with explicit illustrations by the...



  • Two new stories of the monsters of Midian.In the vein of Canterbury Tales, Aaron Boone must bare witness to the histories of his new-found people. Uncover the truth behind the Nightbreed with stories from centuries and worlds all over. From the cata...



  • Get to know the cult-classic horror phenomenon by legend of Clive Barker.Clive Barker’s Nightbreed Archive collects the first comics ever created for this cult-classic horror series. This extensive compilation features the adaptation of Barker’s ...



  • The master of horror's epic tale, adapted into a twelve-issue comic series and collected here in its entirety in a new deluxe paperback edition.

    From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe's quest to possess the Art sets into mot...



  • Following the destruction of Midian, Boone has abandoned his destiny to help Lori adjust to life as a monster. Without a home to call their own, Peloquin and the remaining Breed must work together to find salvation. But from the shadows and old enemy...



  • From the beginning of his distinguished career, Clive Barker has been the great visionary artist of contemporary dark fantasy, a form that Barker himself has termed “the Fantastique.” Through his many novels, stories, paintings and films, he had ...



  • This, the second in our 'Things in the Well*' series of anthologies, contains 21 short, scary tales from below the stairs. A common theme, each story is longer than the preceding one, adding to the effect of being drawn down the stairs into a gloo...



  • The Horror Master returns to his greatest creation.Clive Barker has “touched” Hellraiser only twice before: once to write “The Hellbound Heart,” and once more to write and direct the original Hellraiser film. With the Hellraiser Omnibus, witn...



  • Contents: Introduction by Steve DillonThe Unknown Thing by Timothy G. HugueninPenny Divers by Lee MurrayThe Black Echo by Darren ToddThe Girl on the Beach by Dan LeRoyLonely, Rises the Abyss by Darin HlavazPierce’s Island by Charlie WallsHivuninga ...



  • 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 th...



  • A rich explorer discovers a figure in the desert who calls himself Wick, and claims to be God. Together, the pair embark on a reign of terror across the globe, and Wick seeks to reclaim the throne he believes is rightfully his.Finally collected in on...



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    This Eisner-nominated anthology mini-series brings the best of Clive Barker's Books of Blood short stories to the comics medium. Barker's work is brought to a stunning visual realization by comics' greatest artistic talent: John Bolton, P. Craig Russ...



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    "I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on an elaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world." -- Clive Barker, "Private Legends: An Introd...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clive Barker has published 108 books.

Clive Barker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Clive Barker's Next Testament Omnibus, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume 1, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Clive Barker has 4 series.