Synopses & Reviews
Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.
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"Prodigious talent....Barker creates a fantastic romance of magic and promise that is at once popular fiction and utopian conjuring." The New York Times Book Review
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"A powerfully imagined, fully executed fantasy....[Barker] writes with a lyrical intensity that transforms some passages from prose to poetry....And he informs everything with an imagination so powerful that it creates its own reality." Cincinnati Post
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"[R]ich with memorable characters, exciting situations, and pockets of Barker's trademark horror....[T]he fine style and handling of mythological themes carry the reader to a satisfying conclusion." Library Journal
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"Weaveworld is pure dazzle, pure storytelling. The mixed, tricky world where fantasy and horror overlap has been visited before though not very often and Weaveworld will be a guide to everyone who travels there in the future." Peter Straub
Synopsis
A horrifying and spellbinding tale by the "great imaginer of our time" (Quentin Tarantino) and New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker about the magical world lying right beneath our feet. In a home of an elderly woman in Liverpool lies a carpet.
Suzanna Parish is called to Liverpool after her grandmother has a stroke. Cal Mooney is on the run from an escaped homing pigeon. Together they find themselves accidently drawn into the strange world that lies beneath the mysterious rug. Here, a race of magical beings have hidden themselves from the normal world to escape human persecution and an evil known as the Scourge. But two other evils, a ruthless witch and her sidekick, seek the carpet for their own gain and will do whatever it takes to find it. As the intricate weavings of the tapestry come undone, Suzanna and Cal must face their biggest fears to save this discovered land and all its inhabitants.
Brutal, beautiful, brilliant, and full of his original illustrations, Clive Barker spins his best in this "unhinged and indulgent" (Entertainment Weekly) imaginative tale.
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Prosaic Liverpool clerk Calhoun Mooney falls into a magic carpet and enters the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a race that holds the power to make magic or to destroy humanity. Reissue.
About the Author
Clive Barker is the bestselling author of nineteen books, including Weaveworld, Imajica, and Galilee. He regularly shows his art in Los Angeles and New York, and produces and directs for both large screen and small. Recent projects include the Oscar®-winning film Gods and Monsters, and an exhibition of erotic painting and photographs, The Weird and the Wicked. He lives with his husband, the photographer David Armstrong, in Los Angeles, along with his family of dogs, rats, geckoes, iguana, and turtles.
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction
BOOK ONE:
IN THE KINGDOM OF THE CUCKOO
PART ONE:
WILD BLUE YONDER
I Homing
II The Pursuers
III Who Moved the Ground?
IV Contact
V Before the Dark
VI Mad Mooney
PART TWO:
BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES
I A Suit of Lights
II The Skin of the Teeth
III Selling Heaven
IV Nuptials
V In the Arms of Mama Pus
VI Sick Souls
VII The Tallboy
VIII Following the Thread
IX Finders Keepers
X The Menstruum
PART THREE:
THE EXILES
I The River
II Waking in the Dark
III What She Told
IV Night Terrors
V From the Mouths of Babes
VI Events in a High Wind
VII The Aftermath
VIII Necessary Evils
IX On the Might of Princes
X Humankindness
XI Three Vignettes
PART FOUR:
WHAT PRICE WONDERLAND?
I To Sell Is to Own
II Tell Me No Lies
III So Near, So Far
IV Breaking the Law
V Threshold
BOOK TWO:
THE FUGUE
PART FIVE:
REVELS
I Cal, Among Miracles
II At the Lake; and Later
III Delusions
IV Allegiances
V The Orchard of Lemuel Lo
VI Capra's House
VII Shadwell on High
VIII The Virgin Blooded
IX Never, and Again
X The Summons
XI At the Gazebo
XII A Vanishing Breed
XIII A Proposal
PART SIX:
BACK AMONG THE BLIND MEN
I Time's Gone By
II Despair
IV The Nomads
V Our Lady of the Bones
VI The Brittle Machine
VII Tales of Spook City
PART SEVEN:
THE DEMAGOGUE
I The Messenger
II Seeing the Light
IIICharisma
IV As Good Men Go
V The Hours Pass
VI Hello, Stranger
VII Lost Causes
VIII New Eyes for Old
IX A Secret Place
X Fatalities
XI Cal, Traveling North
XII Resolution
PART EIGHT:
THE RETURN
I Strategy
II The Burial Party
III The Horse Unharnessed
IV The Rope Dancers
V Nonesuch
VI The Flesh Is Weak
VII An Open Book
VIII The Essential Dragon
IX The Fire
X Unearthly Delights
XI A Witness
XII One Fell Swoop
XIII A Fleeting Glimpse
XIV The Narrow Bright
PART NINE:
INTO THE GYRE
I Trespassers
II The Temple
III The Miracle of the Loom
IV Shadwell
V A Fragile Peace
BOOK THREE:
OUT OF THE EMPTY QUARTER
PART TEN:
THE SEARCH FOR THE SCOURGE
I No Rest for the Wicked
II Oblivion
III The Wall
IV Uriel
PART ELEVEN:
THE DREAM SEASON
I Portrait of the Hero as a Young Lunatic
II Representations
III No Lullabies
IV The Shrine of the Mortalities
V The Naked Flame
VI Death Comes Home
PART TWELVE:
STALKING PARADISE
I A Chapter of Accidents
II Dust and Ashes
III The Secret Isle
IV Past Hope
PART THIRTEEN:
MAGIC NIGHT
I Blizzard
II Shelter from the Storm
III On the Hill
IV Symmetry
V The Sleepwalker
VI Rapture