D-This book was either hugely influential or ahead of its time. This book tilled the soil for the current crop of modern dark fantasy. (B would probably give it 5 stars.) ( )

The world that Barker has created here is amazing. This is one of the most unique books that I have read. It is well written, the imagery is amazing even for Barker's standards. But some of the stuff seemed like it could have been left out. The pacing is bad. The dialouge is clunky, and the charachters are poorly developed. ( )

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Being my first venture into Clive Barker's depraved mind, I must say that I was very impressed. However, this is a dark tale not for the faint of horror. The basic premise is there is a magical race, the Seerkind, that hides itself in a carpet to protect itself from the outside world and the Scourge, a monster intent on genocide. Once inside the hidden world, the carpet is guarded by a human. However, a Seerkind exile and her human associate work to find the carpet and destroy the Seerkind's world. In the process the caretaker dies and her grandaughter takes up her mantle, while fate brings Cal, a human who is destined to play a role in the future of the Seerkind, into the story and a bizarre and disjointed romance ensues.

Anyone who tries to tell you this book is more fantasy than horror is delusional. Barker is a horror writer through and through and that shines in this work. The Fugue is a fantastical world with magical characters, but Weaveworld itself spins around an axis of blood and death. There are monsters galore along with some of the goriest imagery I have ever encountered. My only knock on Weaveworld is that the main antagonists, Shadwell and Immacalota, while vividly rendered are relatively flat. We know what their goals are but there is little in the way of background provided. We are never really told why they want what they want. ( )

Quite a good book, though seems confused in places. ( )