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A diversely talented and always chilling writer-artist, Clive Barker creates worlds that turn humanity's baser qualities inside out, hold them in front of a funhouse mirror, and transform them into the stuff of nightmares.

Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world —- and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror — a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.

Cincinnati Post

A powerfully imagined, fully executed fantasy. A book of dreams recalling William Blake instead of Lewis Carroll....Barker borrows a great many themes from literature, folklore, and religion, and makes it completely his own. He writes with a lyrical intensity that transforms some passages from prose to poetry. He infuses his villains and horrors with such venom that they are overwhelming. And he informs everything with an imagination so powerful that it creates its own reality.

Contents

Introduction

BOOK ONE:

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE CUCKOO

PART ONE:

WILD BLUE YONDER

I Homing

II The Pursuers

III Who Moved the Ground?

IV Contact

V Before the Dark

VI Mad Mooney

PART TWO:

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES

I A Suit of Lights

II The Skin of the Teeth

III Selling Heaven

IV Nuptials

V In the Arms of Mama Pus

VI Sick Souls

VII The Tallboy

VIII Following the Thread

IX Finders Keepers

X The Menstruum

PART THREE:

THE EXILES

I The River

II Waking in the Dark

III What She Told

IV Night Terrors

V From the Mouths of Babes

VI Events in a High Wind

VII The Aftermath

VIII Necessary Evils

IX On the Might of Princes

X Humankindness

XI Three Vignettes

PART FOUR:

WHAT PRICE WONDERLAND?

I To Sell Is to Own

II Tell Me No Lies

III So Near, So Far

IV Breaking the Law

V Threshold

BOOK TWO:

THE FUGUE

PART FIVE:

REVELS

I Cal, Among Miracles

II At the Lake; and Later

III Delusions

IV Allegiances

V The Orchard of Lemuel Lo

VI Capra's House

VII Shadwell on High

VIII The Virgin Blooded

IX Never, and Again

X The Summons

XI At the Gazebo

XII A Vanishing Breed

XIII A Proposal

PART SIX:

BACK AMONG THE BLIND MEN

I Time's Gone By

II Despair

IV The Nomads

V Our Lady of the Bones

VI The Brittle Machine

VII Tales of Spook City

PART SEVEN:

THE DEMAGOGUE

I The Messenger

II Seeing the Light

IIICharisma

IV As Good Men Go

V The Hours Pass

VI Hello, Stranger

VII Lost Causes

VIII New Eyes for Old

IX A Secret Place

X Fatalities

XI Cal, Traveling North

XII Resolution

PART EIGHT:

THE RETURN

I Strategy

II The Burial Party

III The Horse Unharnessed

IV The Rope Dancers

V Nonesuch

VI The Flesh Is Weak

VII An Open Book

VIII The Essential Dragon

IX The Fire

X Unearthly Delights

XI A Witness

XII One Fell Swoop

XIII A Fleeting Glimpse

XIV The Narrow Bright

PART NINE:

INTO THE GYRE

I Trespassers

II The Temple

III The Miracle of the Loom

IV Shadwell

V A Fragile Peace

BOOK THREE:

OUT OF THE EMPTY QUARTER

PART TEN:

THE SEARCH FOR THE SCOURGE

I No Rest for the Wicked

II Oblivion

III The Wall

IV Uriel

PART ELEVEN:

THE DREAM SEASON

I Portrait of the Hero as a Young Lunatic

II Representations

III No Lullabies

IV The Shrine of the Mortalities

V The Naked Flame

VI Death Comes Home

PART TWELVE:

STALKING PARADISE

I A Chapter of Accidents

II Dust and Ashes

III The Secret Isle

IV Past Hope

PART THIRTEEN:

MAGIC NIGHT

I Blizzard

II Shelter from the Storm

III On the Hill

IV Symmetry

V The Sleepwalker

VI Rapture