Weaveworld — Clive Barker

"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--or to destroy humanity.... Barker puts in strands of Joyce, Poe, Tolkien and King himself, and emerges with the one ingredient that all good rugmakers and storytellers have in common: AN IRRESISTIBLE YARN"
--Time