by Clive Barker
“Everville confirms the author’s position as one of modern fiction’s premier metaphysicians … a spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy, The Great and Secret Show.”
— Publishers Weekly
INCARNATIONS
First published in 1995
Before Clive Barker wrote novels he wrote plays for the theater, which continue to be performed all over the world. Collected here are three of them: Colossus, a powerful study of the painter, Goya; Frankenstein in Love, a bizarre and horrifying wedding in the Grand Guignol style; and The History of the Devil, in which Lucifer himself is brought to trial, revealing a truly unique personality.
“Excellent mystical work.”
—Liverpool Echo
FORMS OF HEAVEN
First published in 1996
The second volume of collected plays. Contained here are: Crazyface, following the life of a great clown cast adrift in the Dark Ages; Paradise Street, in which the gray streets of Liverpool are transformed by an extraordinary band of time travelers; and Subtle Bodies, in which the power of desire and rage transforms an ordinary hotel into a ship which sails on a dream-sea, until misfortune overtakes it-an idea which was later expanded in The Great and Secret Show and Everville.
“A great collection.”
—SFX
SACRAMENT
First published in 1996
A near-fatal encounter with a polar bear leaves Will Rabjohns, a world-famous wildlife photographer, in a coma. While unconscious he revisits his childhood, and a traumatic event which shaped his life. Upon waking he realizes that he must journey from the familiar streets of San Francisco to wildernesses of England, and once again face the mysterious couple who nurtured and tormented him as a boy, and who will finally reveal the secret that links his destiny to that of every soul on the planet.
“A gripping book that weaves a compulsive spell almost to the final page…. Vintage Barker.”
—The Times (of London)
GALILEE
First published in 1998
Shop assistant Rachel Pallenburg never dreamed of meeting Mitchell Geary, heir to the Geary fortune, let alone marrying him. But life as part of the richest family in America has turned sour, and Rachel finds herself trapped in the most destructive of relationships. Then she meets Galilee, prodigal prince of the mythical Barbarossa clan; and they fall passionately in love, a love which will ignite an age-old feud between the two families. As secrets are laid bare, the pent-up loathing between the two dynasties will erupt into a mutually destructive frenzy.
“Galilee leaps through time and space to reveal an impressively majestic vision told in beautiful prose. A fantastic, engrossing war of the worlds.”
—People
PERMISSIONS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Excerpts from Weaveworld by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1987 by Clive Barker. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
“The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1985 by Clive Barker. First published in United States in In the Flesh in 1986 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Excerpts from Cabal by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1985 by Clive Barker. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Excerpts from The Damnation Game by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1987 by Clive Barker. Reprinted with the permission of Putnam Berkley, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
“Epilogue from The Maker,” by Jorge Luis Borges. Copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodaa; translation copyright © 1999 by Kenneth Krabbenhoft, from Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Reprinted with the permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.
“In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1984 by Clive Barker. First published in Great Britain in The Books of Blood, Vol. I in 1986 by Sphere Books Ltd. First published in the United States in 1984 by The Berkley Publishing Group. Reprinted with the permission of Sphere Books Ltd.
“Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament” by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1984 by Clive Barker. First published in Great Britain in The Books of Blood, Vol. II in 1984 by Sphere Books Ltd. First published in the United States by The Berkley Publishing Group. Reprinted with the permission of Sphere Books Ltd.
Excerpts from The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1989 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1989 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from The Hellhound Heart by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1986 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1986 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Imajica by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1991 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1991 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“The Departed” by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1992 by Clive Barker. First published in the New York Times as Hermione and the Moon in 1992.
Excerpts from The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1992 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Everville by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1994 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from The History of the Devil and Frankenstein in Love by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1995 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in Incarnations in 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Paradise Street and Subtle Bodies by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1996 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in Forms of Heaven in 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Sacrament by Clive Barker. Copyright © 1996 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Galilee. Copyright © 1998 by Clive Barker. First published in the United States in 1998 by HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Jane Johnson, to whom this book is dedicated, has been my editor and my friend for many years now. A gifted novelist herself, she is intimately familiar with the agonies of the writing process, her advice always a powerful and rare mingling of high ideals and practicality. More than that, she’s a celebrant, and her companionship on these journeys has made them both more ambitious and more pleasurable.
I’d also like to thank my publisher, Eddie Bell. In 1986 he brought me to HarperCollins with Weaveworld and since then has unfailingly supported every sea change that my fictions have undergone. He has a brilliant, but incredibly old-fashioned theory about publishing: he trusts his authors. Such trust is a rare gift for a writer to receive, and I love him for it.
Finally, a word of thanks to my team here in Los Angeles. To David Dodds, Robb Humphreys, and Joseph Daley, who have juggled a dozen different projects for me while this book was being brought into being.
ALSO BY CLIVE BARKER
The Books of Blood
The Damnation Game
Weaveworld Cabal
The Great and Secret Show
The Hellhound Heart
Imajica The Thief of Always
Everville
Incarnations
Forms of Heaven
Sacrament
Galilee
About the Author
death, and death to life; doorways open into other states of existence, and each doorway leads us back to our own dreams and fears.
The Essential Clive Barker is an irresistible narrative compend
ium that superbly represents the impressive quality and range of Barker’s fiction spanning more than twenty years of writing. It contains more than seventy excerpts from novels and plays and four full-length short stories, all personally selected by Barker, and offers a privileged insight into a remarkable writer and his art.
CLIVE BARKER is the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of eighteen 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 Gods and Monsters and an exhibition of erotic paintings and photographs, “The Weird and the Wicked.” He lives with his lover, the photographer David Armstrong, in Los Angeles, along with a family of dogs, rats, geckoes, iguanas, and turtles.
Please visit the author’s website at www.clivebarkerbooks.com
Jacket design © 1999 by Chip Kidd
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Author photograph © 1999 by David Armstrong
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THE ESSENTIAL CLIVE BARKER. Copyright © 2000 by Clive Barker.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barker, Clive, 1952–
[Selections. 1999]
The essential Clive Barker: selected fiction/Clive Barker. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-019529-0
1. Fantasy literature, English. 2. Horror tales, english. I. Title.
PR052.A6475A6 1999
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