Stephen King and Clive Barker

Stephen King and Clive Barker
Author: James Van Hise
Publisher: Movie Publisher Services
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Through an in-depth interview, this guide gives a first-hand look at King's and Barker's creative sensibilities, providing a listing of all the authors' titles, as well as every film based on their works.

Weaveworld

Weaveworld
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982158093

The Seerkind, a people who possess the power to make magic, have weaved themselves into a rug for safekeeping. Now, with the last human caretaker dead, a variety of humans vie for ownership of the rug.

Sacrament

Sacrament
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007358296

A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the traumatic events of his childhood.

Revelations

Revelations
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1992
Genre: Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN:

Pestilence, floods, war, social upheaval, drug crime, wicked leaders, conspiracies, corruption even visions of death-dealing aliens -- this superb collection of stories takes an unforgettable imaginative journey into terror and transcendence. Each decade of the twentieth century is assigned to one of the top fantasy/horror authors of the modern age who evokes the particular madness of that decade as it contributes to a prophecy for the next century. Decade by decade as the millennium approaches in these powerful, chilling tales, the tension builds toward a dramatic revelation that is both a prophetic warning and a visionary answer for all humankind. A singular publishing event, "Revelations is a stunning anthology-novel by modern superstars of fantasy and horror, including" New York Times -- bestselling author Clive Barker, David J. Schow, and Remsey Campbell.

Writing Horror and the Body

Writing Horror and the Body
Author: Linda Badley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313367787

In this sequel to Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Badley examines horror fiction as a fantastic genre in which images of the body and the self are articulated and modified. Badley places horror fiction in its cultural context, drawing important connections to theories of gender and sexuality. As our culture places increasing importance on body image, horror fiction has provided a language for imagining the self in new ways—often as ungendered, transformed, or re-generated. Focusing on the works of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice, Badley approaches horror as a discourse that articulates the anxieties of our culture.

Stephen King and Philosophy

Stephen King and Philosophy
Author: Jacob M. Held
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1442269766

Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem’s Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Sematary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for more than forty years. His characters have brought chills to our spines and challenged our notions of reality while leaving us in awe of the perseverance of the human spirit. The first book in the new Great Authors and Philosophy series, Stephen King and Philosophy reveals some of the deeper issues raised by King’s work. From retribution, freedom, and moral relativity, to death and insanity, the chapters of this book expose how King’s stories access the questions and fears that haunt each of us in the middle of the night.

The Damnation Game

The Damnation Game
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II. As time passes, Mamoulian haunts Whitehead using his supernatural powers (such as the ability to raise the dead), urging him to complete his pact with him. Eventually Whitehead decides to escape his fate after a few encounters with Mamoulian and having his wife, former bodyguard, and now his daughter Carys taken away from him. With hope still left to save Carys, Marty Strauss, although reluctant to get involved in the old man Whiteheads deserved punishment, decides to get involved and attempt to save the innocent gifted addict from being another victim to the damnation game

Swan Song

Swan Song
Author: Robert McCammon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501131427

In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named Swan who possesses the gift of life.

Mister B. Gone

Mister B. Gone
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061827312

“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City Star From Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil. “Burn this book!” So warns Jakerbok, the spellbinding narrator of this fabulously original “memoir,” a tale of good and evil deliberately “lost” for nearly six hundred years. Jakerbok is no ordinary soul; he is a minion of hell with a terrifying plan to cast the world into darkness and despair—a plan thwarted by a young apprentice of Johannes Gutenberg who buried the one and only copy of this damnable manuscript that his master printed in 1438. Compelling and direct, Jakerbok shares the secrets of his life, going back centuries to recall the events that shaped his childhood, including the traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents, super demons themselves. He explains how he rose from “minor” to “major” demon status, and gleefully reveals his nefarious plot to “invade” the minds and hearts of unwitting humans everywhere thanks to the ingenious Gutenberg and his invention. “Burn this book!” he advises throughout—a taunt, a warning, and a command that will actually unleash the evil with which he has hidden in every word and every page, infusing the very ink and paper upon which they are printed. Inventive and irresistible, Mister B. Good reaffirms Clive Barker is one of our most brilliant and original voices, an artist with a keen insight into mysteries deep within the human heart.