Auteur
Clive Barker
(°1952)
Uitgaves
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Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, claims to be a never-before-published demonic memoir penned in the year 1438. The sole copy was,... [meer]
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Abarat - Book 2. Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. "Why?" she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning... [meer]
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Once upon a world where time is place a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold... It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one... [meer]
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After a run of failed movies, superstar Todd Pickett elects to have extensive surgery in a desperate bid to regain his lost beauty. The procedure goes horribly, grotesquely wrong. Hiding from his fans, and from the press he knows will tear his reputation apart if they find out about his operation, Todd... [meer]
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The new novel from international bestselling author Clive Barker is a savage, poignant ghost story set in Hollywood, that glamorous half-world in which beauty; power and youth is wealth, and all can be stripped away in a heartbeat. A world where every whisper is a conspiracy, and every kiss a lie, and... [meer]
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"I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on anelaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world." -- Clive Barker, "Private Legends: An Introduction" Clive Barker, award-winning and New York... [meer]
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De Geary's zijn zo rijk als de Rockefellers en zo glamourous en machtig als de Kennedy's - en verhullen al generaties lang de wortels van hun invloed en de diepten van hun corruptie. Rachel Pallenberg had er nooit van gedroomd dat ze ooit Amerika's meest begeerde vrijgezel zou ontmoeten - laat staan... [meer]
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As rich as the Rockefellers, as powerful and glamorous as the Kennedys, the Geary dynasty has held subtle sway over American life since the end of the Civil War. But they are a family with secrets. Dark, terrible secrets about the roots of their influence, which the Gearys have successfully concealed... [meer]
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Every family has its secrets. The Gearys are no exception. As rich as the Rockefellers, as glamorous as the Kennedys, the Geary dynasty has held subtle sway over American life since the Civil War, brilliantly concealing the depths of its corruption and its bitter feud with the ethereal Barbarossas. All... [meer]
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Legions of Clive Barker fans will relish three early works from the wicked imagination of one of the best-known fantasy/horror writers of the decade. Incarnations is a cross-disciplinary marvel, a great, glorious feast of the imagination taking us on a journey through wildly varied theatrical and emotional... [meer]
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Will Swift heeft alles. Schoonheid, vrienden en roem. Men beschouwt hem als de beste natuurfotograaf ter wereld. Niemand kan de wreedheid en vergankelijkheid van de natuur zo goed in beelden vangen als hij. En toch is hij wanhopig, want zijn foto's zijn zinloos, ze veranderen niets aan het grote uitsterven... [meer]
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Three Plays by Clive Barker Before he wrote the novels that made his name touchstone of imaginative fiction worldwide, before he made the films that set new standards in cinematic terror, Clive Barker wrote for theatre: plays which are,like his books and his films, rich and multi-layered journeys into... [meer]
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Het grote grijze beest Februari heeft Harvey Swick levend opgeslokt. Op school is het saai, buiten regent het en hij verveelt zich dood. Daarom springt Harvey een gat in de lucht als hij kan ontsnappen naar meneer Lupo's Luilekkerhuis, waar wonderen nog echt gebeuren en waar elke kinderwens in vervulling... [meer]
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The Second Book of The Art. Welcome to Everville... On a mountain high above the city, a door stands open onto the shores of another world, and there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact. Phoebe Cobb is about to leave her old life as a doctor's receptionist and go looking for her lost... [meer]
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Een moordenaar volgt Judith door de straten van New York. De schilder John, wiens minnares zij is geweest, redt Judith van de dood maar stort zich met haar in een avontuur dat even onbegrensd is als de fantasie. De werelden van de Imagica gaan voor hen open - werelden vol erotiek en doodsangst, vol onuitsprekelijke... [meer]
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Mr Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and... [meer]
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Amid a seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition, and mythic horror, Imajica picks out the brightly colored threads of three memorable characters: John Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master forger whose own life is a series of lies; Judith Odell, a beautiful woman desired by three powerful... [meer]
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The First Book of the Art. Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war. The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world.... [meer]
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The First Book of the Art. Armageddon begins quietly. In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove several children are born, the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity, and of Fletcher, a force for light, who has fought the Jaff across America. Their prize is the Art,... [meer]
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De novelle Hellehart vormde de basis voor de huiveringwekkende horrorfilms van Clive Barker: Hellraiser en Hellbound. Verscheen in de bundel Hellehart Horrorverhalen samen met tien kortere verhalen afkomstig van Ramsey Campbell en Lisa Tuttle.... [meer]
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Wezens van de nacht. Kabal is het verhaal van een jonge vrouw die bereid is de grenzen van het menselijke te overschrijden om samen te zijn met de man van wie ze houdt. Boone gelooft dat hij verantwoordelijk is voor de meest afgrijselijke misdaden. Hij heeft zijn toevlucht gezocht op een enorme begraafplaats... [meer]
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Abridged. In the novel, Cabal , Boone, a recovering psychotic, is cleverly manipulated by his psychiatrist, Decker, into believing that he has committed several savage murders. Decker, of course, is the villain, but Boone does not catch on. Considering himself unfit for human society, Boone flees, eventually... [meer]
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20 nieuwe verhalen van de grootmeesters op horrorgebied zoals: Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Whitney Strieber, Robert Bloch en vele, vele anderen. De beste auteurs in het genre beschrijven, met een in bloed gedrenkte pen, passie, pijn en wraak: - Clive Barker bezorgt u koude rillingen... [meer]
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Een aantal onvergetelijke personages wedijvert om het bezit van een tapijt waarin een wonderbaarlijke wereld is verweven, die opnieuw tot leven komt: Susanna Parrish, kleindochter van de laatste tapijtbewaarder, die de mysterieuse aantrekkingskracht van de Weefwereld voelt, lang voordat ze de kracht... [meer]
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'Die september kwam de Hel naar de straten van Londen. IJzig vanuit de diepten, te koud om zich aan de milde nazomer te kunnen warmen. Het had hem nooit aan strijdlust ontbroken. In de loop van de eeuwen was hij wel duizend keer met zijn vuur tegen vlees ten strijde getrokken. Soms had hij gewonnen,... [meer]
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'De jongen zou het overleven, dat was duidelijk. Het bloed droogde al op, en de talloze wonden begonnen te helen. En na enige tijd, als de woorden op zijn lichaam in korstjes en littekens waren overgegaan, zou ze hem lezen. Ze zou het allemaal lezen en publiceren. De wereld zou weten welke verhalen de... [meer]
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In a bizarre version of a revolution, it appears that all our hands have their own consciousness and are not happy at being ordered what to do by their owners. The hands of a factory worker named Charlie plan to lead the revolution. Charlie's hands even have their own personalities, with Left being more... [meer]
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De bloedstollende horrorverhalen van De Boeken van Bloed verschenen eerder in drie afzonderlijke bundels, getiteld Tunnel van de dood, Prins van de duisternis en Het boek van bloed. Deze bundel bevat onder meer de volgende verhalen: - Tunnel van de dood neemt de lezer mee op een bloedstollende rit met... [meer]
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From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones... ... [meer]
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"I have seen the future of the horror genre, and his name is Clive Barker," Stephen King has written. Fortunately, this first novel (Barker has published short story collections) more than bears the weight of King's praise. Barker is a better writer than King, and his characters are just as interesting.... [meer]
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'Het was een vreemde ziekte. De symptomen leken op die van een hevige verliefdheid - hartkloppingen, slapeloosheid. Maar de enige remedie was de dood...' Zolang Marty Strauss zich kan herinneren wordt zijn leven beheerst door het noodlot. En nu lijkt het geluk hem eindelijk gunstig gezind. Net uit de... [meer]
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Originally published under the title Books of Blood, Volume IV. In these five brilliant tales, human hands tear themselves from their masters to start a bloody revolution; a knotted string unravels dark hungering nightmares; in a Texas motel room, the living and the dead make love; a palace is build... [meer]
Overzicht
toneel
- The History of the Devil (1980)
- Colossus (1983)
- Frankenstein in Love (1995)
- Crazyface (1996)
- Paradise Street (1996)
- Subtle Bodies (1996)
roman
- The Damnation Game (1985)
- Weaveworld (1987)
- Cabal (1988)
- The Great and Secret Show (1989)
- Imajica (1991)
- Everville (1994)
- Sacrament (1996)
- Galilee (1999)
- Coldheart Canyon (2001)
- Mister B. Gone (2007)
kortverhaal
- Dread (1984)
- Hell's Event (1984)
- Human Remains (1984)
- In the Hills, the Cities (1984)
- Pig Blood Blues (1984)
- Rawhead Rex (1984)
- Scape-Goats (1984)
- Sex, Death and Starshine (1984)
- Son of Celluloid (1984)
- The Book of Blood (1984)
- The Midnight Meat Train (1984)
- The Skins of the Fathers (1984)
- The Yattering and Jack (1984)
- Lost Souls (1985)
- Babel's Children (1986)
- Down, Satan! (1986)
- How Spoilers Bleed (1986)
- In the Flesh (1986)
- On Jerusalem Street (1986)
- Revelations (1986)
- The Age of Desire (1986)
- The Body Politic (1986)
- The Forbidden (1986)
- The Hellbound Heart (1986)
- The Inhuman Condition (1986)
- The Last Illusion (1986)
- The Life of Death (1986)
- The Madonna (1986)
- Twilight at the Towers (1986)
- The Departed (1992)
jeugd
- The Thief of Always (1992)
- Abarat (2002)