Clive Barker
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Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.
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A medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
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Long-beleaguered supernatural private investigator Harry D'Amour and his entourage of mortal sidekicks are lured to the infernal realm to serve as "witness" to what the demon Pinhead calls "my gospels": a succession of gruesome atrocities.
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...
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"Barker's the best thing to happen to horror fiction for many moons. . . [he] never fails to deliver the compelling prose and relentless horror his readers expect." —Chicago Tribune
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
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Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after his surgery 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 deeds has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden . . .Clive...
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Abarat volume 2
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Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat continue as she makes a startling realization as to who she is, and the forces of Night begin plans for war.
9) Sacrament
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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 depths, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his life with a mysterious couple who have influenced his life as an artist and a man.
When Will awakens, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery -- one where he will penetrate...
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Book of the Art volume 1
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When postal clerk Randolph Jaffe stumbles across a dead letter room full of revelations abut a secret and awesome power known as the Art, he finds himself entangled in a battle between good and even in a quiet California town.
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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 Barbarossa's, 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...
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Los sueños pueden convertirse en pesadillas.
Candy está en el archipiélago de Abarat, huyendo de isla en isla para que no la atrapen los asesinos enviados por Carrion, el Señor de la Medianoche, que conspira para que caiga sobre Abarat la oscuridad más absoluta.
Por suerte, Candy ha comenzado a desarrollar asombrosos poderes mágicos y, junto a sus compañeros, la joven emprende una aventura donde tendrá que tomar decisiones que alterarán la...
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La hora más oscura está cada vez más cerca...
Candy Quackenbush continúa su viaje por el mundo fantástico y feroz de Abarat: un archipiélago donde en cada isla es una hora distinta del día, el eterno teatro de una lucha sin tregua entre luz y oscuridad.
Antiguos presagios empujan a Candy a surcar las aguas del mar de Izabella: todo indica que se acerca una tormenta. Mater Motley está obsesionada con convertirse en la emperatriz de las Islas...
14) Everville
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Book of the Art volume 2
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From 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,...
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From master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passion-complete with new illustrations and a new Appendix.
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than...
16) Abarat
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Abarat volume 1
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A VECES, LOS SUEÑOS NO SON COMO UNO ESPERA
Chickentown es el lugar más aburrido de Estados Unidos, y allí vive Candy Quackenbush, que se pregunta qué será de su futuro. Alberga en su corazón la esperanza de irse lejos de allí y vivir aventuras emocionantes, pero cuando su deseo se cumple no resulta como ella esperaba.
¡Bienvenidos a Abarat!, un extenso archipiélago donde en cada isla es una hora diferente. Candy debe salvar a Abarat de las...
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Clive Barker, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, playwright, artist, producer, director, screenwriter, and one of the world's master storytellers, writing in the haunting and moving traditions of Poe and Dickens, invites us to join him on a dazzling, wondrous journey through the worlds of his imagination and to experience visions, dreams, love, terror, heaven and hell, and revenge.
As we read, we discover and explore the dream-sea...
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***Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Anthology category***Want to see something weird?Embrace the odd? Satisfy your curiosity? Surrender to wonder?From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-winning co-editor of the smash hitGutted: Beautiful Horror StoriescomesBehold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between the ordinaryand the imaginations...
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WHERE NIGHTMARES COME FROM
THE ART OF STORYTELLING IN THE HORROR GENRE
Book one in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series, Where Nightmares Come From focuses on the art of storytelling in the Horror genre, taking an idea from conception to reality--whether you prefer short stories, novels, films, or comics.
Featuring in-depth articles and interviews by Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard series), Clive Barker (Books of Blood), John Connolly...
20) It's Alive
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Bram Stoker Award-winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction!Nightmares come to life in this comprehensive how-to guide for new and established authors…Book two in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series picks up where the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Where Nightmares Come From left off.It's Alive focuses on learning the craft in order to take your story from concept to completion.With an introduction by Richard Chizmar and cover art...