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... I got:
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
In the Flesh by Clive Barker
The Inhuman Condition by Clive Barker
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Galilee by Clive Barker
The I-5 Killer Revised Edition by Ann Rule
Thinner by Stephen King/Richard Bachman (which I already owned, but ... ... really my style of horror tale, but nonetheless I think it is a classic.
If you like that 'dark fantasy' horror ala Weaveworld or Cabal, I would recommend giving In Silent Graves a spin.
I will read more Gary A. Braunbeck. ... Graves is more dark fantasy than horror. It reminded me quite a bit of Clive Barker’s early stuff (especially Weaveworld and Cabal). One of those stories where a regular guy makes a left instead of a right and winds up in a surreal nightmare world. I don’t mean to ... ... Stephen King
Insomnia by Stephen King
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Weaveworld by Clive Barker I'm reading Weaveworld by Clive Barker. I already like it but I dare to say I don't enjoy it as much as I once enjoyed Imajica. But I still have a lot of pages to read so ... Looks like his book Weaveworld got combined with The Handmaid's Tale. It should be fixed now.... Weaveworld was OK, but I'm a fan of Imajica Granted, it's been ages since I last read Barker.
I thought fiction "being ten times longer than they need to be" is a prerequisite for speculative fiction. Didn't you get the memo? ;) Brian Sanderson wrote it and it was 4000 pages long. Sadly, after Books of Blood it was all downhill for Barker. I like Weaveworld and Sacrament isn't bad, but the others are all ten times longer than they needed to be. ... Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (which I must be typing in wrong because I can't get the touchstone to work).
Weaveworld
The Pirate's Daughter
and I bought (bad me):
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Temeraire ... I'm looking forward to checking out The Scar.
I am a huge Clive Barker fan so I would definitely recommend Weaveworld, Imajica or The Great and Secret Show. There are certainly horror elements in all of these works but aside from the The Books of Blood most of Barker's ... I also enjoyed his Books of Blood and I liked Imajica. Weaveworld was interesting.
"Splatterpunk" is fine, if you can genuinely support a story with it. It's hard to top The Thing for pure, unadulterated biological nightmares.
In this age of global terrorism, dirty bombs, and unsafe ... ... iffy here. His six Books of Blood are some of the best horror fiction I've ever read. The problem is that starting with Weaveworld he sort of stepped out of horror and into dark fantasy, which I don't much like at all. Those early books and stories though... I'm curious to see how quickly I can read 50. Starting November 21, 2008:
1. Weaveworld by Clive Barker.
2. Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker.
3. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
4. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite.
Currently reading Imajica by Clive Barker. I ... ... today so this is a first post. Awesome website. Just had to get that out of the way.
I am entering the Fugue in Weaveworld by Clive Barker.
Territory by Judy Nunn
Uhuru by Robert Ruark
Viva El Vet! by David Grant
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
X Marks The Spot by Joan De Hamel ... very different from what I expected from his writing that I could hardly believe he had written what I was reading. Read Weaveworld and then take a look at Clive Barker as a young man and see if you don't agree! Since then I often look at the picture first even though it will color how I ... ... also have supernatural powers).
For the same reason I love Clive Barker's short stories, but not so much his novels (Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show and Everville and Imajica). ... an
FannybyErica Jong
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Holy Foolsby Joanne Harris
and a mooched Book Mooch:
Weaveworld by Clive Barker (thanks Alisha!)
that's all for now. ... of fantasy, Canadian lit, and gay lit.
Particularly recommended are the Sharon Green books, Clive Barker's Weaveworld, Thomas King's aboriginal anthology One Good Story, That One, and everybody's favourite aesthetic classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Also, if you're a ... ... genre I'm very enthousiastic about almost everything Neil Gaiman wrote - Neverwhere was wild! - and Clive Barker - Weaveworld is a classic!
More "romantic" are the books of Diana Gabaldon and more recent the Meredith fae novels by Laurell K. Hamilton and the hilarious whereabouts ... ... horror roots, and, at the time, he said it was his favorite novel to write. I wonder if he would say the same today. Weaveworld was really the first novel of his that lent itself to a fantasy bent, but the horror element is much stronger in that in comparison to Imajica. Imajica is one of ... mrgrooism, somehow you were skipped so I will recommend Weaveworld for you. And thanks for the recommendation you gave me.
note: I'm not looking for more recommendations, I just did not want groo to be missed ; ... Imajica, really liked The Great and Secret Show, really like the shorts in Books of Blood and was disappointed by Weaveworld (may give it another shot someday..) What other Barker novel would you recommend I read next? I already have, but have not read, Everville, The Thief of Always ... ... - it's not as strong as Barker's usual writing style. I love how fluid Barker can be with description (in Imajica and Weaveworld particularly), but that was lacking in this book.
78. Uncovered: Photographs by Thomas Allen - Gorgeous photographs of pulp fiction paperback covers, ... I received mine the other day. I received Weaveworld by Clive Barker and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, both seem like good choices for me. I know I shouldn't have opened them but I received 5 boxes from Amazon that day and had no idea what is in each box, the other boxes were ... ... . . . even his "mainstream" horror was over-the-top grotesque flesh and roiling guts!
My first Clive Barker was Weaveworld. And it was a buffet of the bizarre. (Maybe I should put the Scourge in the favorite monster thread.)
I'd like to operate on Barker's head and see how ... ... Great and Secret Show.
Opinicus, I'll keep an eye out for The Thief of Always, I love Clive Barker, particularly Weaveworld which I read at least once a year. The angel Uriel from Clive Barker's Weaveworld has stuck with me the longest over the years.
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