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Nightlives (Playscripts, #6) was the most recently released book by Clive Barker, on July 10th, 2021.

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Clive Barker Stats: The highest rated book by Clive Barker on Book Notification is The Great and Secret Show, the first novel in the Book of the Art series. The second-highest rated book is Imajica (Imajica #1).

The most read book by Clive Barker on Book Notification is The Great and Secret Show, the first novel in the Book of the Art series. The second most read book is Weaveworld, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Clive Barker books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Book of the Art Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
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9.31989
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List of Imajica Books in Publication Order

List of Abarat Books in Publication Order

List of Books of Blood Books in Publication Order

Horror stories where the ordinary world transforms into terrifying, erotic, and illogical nightmares.

List of Galilee Books in Publication Order

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91998

List of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) books are Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1, Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2, and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 3.

List of Clive Barker's Next Testament Books in Publication Order

List of Clive Barker's Book of the Damned Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Clive Barker's Book of the Damned books are Book of the Damned, Book of the Damned II, and Book of the Damned III.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are Weaveworld, The Damnation Game, and Mister B. Gone.

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short stories and novellas are The Hellbound Heart, Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament, and In the Hills, the Cities.

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are The Scarlet Gospels, Books of Blood I-III, and Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6.

List of Graphic Novels in Publication Order

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2008
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2018

List of Playscripts in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Clive Barker Playscripts books are The History of the Devil, The Magician, and Hunters in the Snow.

List of Non-Fiction in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, and The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies.

List of Encyclopocalypse Classics Books in Publication Order

Horror stories including hired killers, Dracula, and monstrous invasions.

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The Odd Job (By: Bernard McKenna, Colin Bostock-Smith)
1978
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Killer Flies (By: Mark Kendall)
1983
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1990
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2002
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2007
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The Visitor (By: Chauncey G. Parker III)
2019
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The Nightmare Blonde (By: Morton Wolson)
2024
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Spook City (With: Ramsey Campbell, Peter Atkins, Doug Bradley, Angus MacKenzie)
2024
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List of Foundations of Fear Anthology Books in Publication Order

Horror fiction collection from various famous authors.

List of The Dark Descent Books in Publication Order

Offers horror stories from famous authors, with introductions explaining the genre's evolution.

List of Mondo Books in Publication Order

Anthologies with stories and poems about cultural icons.

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Mondo Barbie (By: John Varley, Lynne Barrett, Julia Alvarez, Philip Levine, A.M. Homes, David Trinidad, Sandra Cisneros, Marge Piercy, Gary Soto, Roberta Allen, Alice McDermott, Hilary Tham, Lyn Lifshin, Rebecca Brown, Denise Duhamel, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Jeanne Beaumont, Lynne McMahon, Kathryn Harrison, Patricia Storace, Richard Grayson, Leslie Shiel, Laura Costas, Sharon Henry, Cookie Lupton, Lisa B. Herskovits, Belinda Subraman, Ellie Schoenfeld, Sparrow ., Gregg Shapiro, Cathryn Hankla, Wayne E. Kline, Jose Padua, Jeff Weddle)
1993
2
Mondo Elvis (By: Howard Waldrop, Cornelius Eady, Mark Childress, Susie Mee, Nick Cave, Mark Winegardner, Rafael Alvarez, Greil Marcus, Pagan Kennedy, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Lynne McMahon, Cathryn Hankla, Samuel Charters, Rachel Salazar, Eleanor Earle Crockett, Diane Wakoski, Judy Vernon, David Wojahn, William McCranor Henderson, Janice Eidus, Elizabeth Ash Vélez, Laura Kalpakian, Eri Makino, Ai, Michael Wilkerson, Brian Gilmore)
1994
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Mondo Marilyn (With: J.G. Ballard, Michael Hemmingson, Doris Grumbach, Beth Meacham, Lynne Tillman, Charles Bukowski, David Trinidad, Tom Whalen, Sharon Olds, Leslie Pietrzyk, Lyn Lifshin, Nanci Griffith, Robert Peters, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Jeanne Beaumont, Gregg Shapiro, Judy Grahn, Sam Toperoff, Julia P. Dubner, Bill Morris, John Rechy, L.A. Lantz, Phyllis Burke, Hillary Johnson, Rita Valencia, Michael Lally, Eleanor E. Crocket, Taylor Mead, Susan Compo, Rosanne Daryl Thomas)
1995
4
Mondo James Dean (By: Lewis Shiner, Jack C. Haldeman II, Bentley Little, Michael Hemmingson, Chuck Taylor, Michael Martone, Louisa Ermelino, Terence Winch, Lucinda Ebersole, Richard Peabody, Sparrow ., Janice Eidus, Ai, Tino Villanueva, Edwin Corley, Robert Ready, Reuben Jackson, Stephanie Hart, D.E. Steward, David Plumb, Ed Graczyk, Hilary Howard, James Finney Boylan, Miranda Schwartz)
1996
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List of Clive Barker Anthologies in Publication Order

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Clive Barker

Clive Barker was born on October 5th, 1952 and is currently 73 years old. Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England. Barker attended the University of Liverpool.

Clive Barker is known for writing in the Fantasy and Horror genres.

Clive Barker is primarily known as an English visual artist, director, and author who for the most part writes in the dark fantasy and horror genres. Leonard Barker, his father, worked for an industrial relations firm as a human resources director, and Joan Ruby, his mother, was a school welfare officer and painter.

Given Barker’s mother’s predilections, he started dabbling in artistic endeavors in school where he was a member of the school theater. Early on in his career as an artist, he used to work as a male prostitute to make ends meet. But he would find success with The Dog Company, a theater group he founded in 1978.

Clive Barker published The Damnation Game, his first novel, in 1985, even as he wrote the scripts for the movies Rawhead Rex and Underworld. However, he was so disappointed by the two movies that he decided to convert some of his written stories into a movie that would become the 1987 released Hellraiser, the cult classic which he also directed.

Outside of his work in the movies and in literature, he has also worked as an illustrator and visual artist, He has been contracted to work on visual arts projects, comic books, and television and has also illustrated his own books.

The Great and Secret Show is a work that Clive Barker published in 1989. The focus is on the greatest power ever known to man known as The Art, which Fletcher a force for light, and Jaff an evil spirit are fighting over. The conflict between these two results in a decades-long conflict that affects all humans and distorts reality.

Clive Barker published the second novel of the Art Books series Everville in 1994. The work is set in Everville, which sits between the world of Quiddity and this world. For years, it never knew about the treasures on its coasts, but Clive Barker opens the doors and reveals the forces that have shaped the past and are preparing to destroy the future.

In 1987, Clive Barker published his second standalone novel Weaveworld. It opens with Susanna Parish summoned to Liverpool when her grandma suffers a stroke. Working with a man on the run named Cal Mooney, they find themselves in a strange world underneath her grandmother's carpet. It is a place where a few magical beings had fled to escape the Scourge, a very dark evil and human persecution too.

Clive Barker: Awards & Accolades

Clive Barker won the Bram Stoker Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2012.

Many of Clive Barker's books have won awards, including:

  • Books of Blood I-III won the World Fantasy Award, Collection, in 1985.
  • In the Hills, the Cities won the British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, in 1985.
  • The Forbidden won the British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, in 1986.
  • Coldheart Canyon won the Audie Award, Best Male Narrator, in 2002.
  • Days of Magic, Nights of War won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Work for Young Readers, in 2004.
  • Dark Delicacies won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2005.
  • Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2011.
  • Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2017.

The following novels by Clive Barker were also nominated for these awards:

  • Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament: World Fantasy Award, Novella (1985).
  • Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6: World Fantasy Award, Collection (1986).
  • The Damnation Game: World Fantasy Award, Novel (1986). Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in a First Novel (1987).
  • The Hellbound Heart: British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story (1987). World Fantasy Award, Novella (1987).
  • Weaveworld: World Fantasy Award, Novel (1988).
  • Cabal: World Fantasy Award, Collection (1989).
  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction (1997).
  • Sacrament: British Fantasy Award, Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (1997).
  • Abarat: The First Book of Hours: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Work for Young Readers (2002).
  • Days of Magic, Nights of War: British Fantasy Award, Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2005).
  • Haeckel\'s: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (2005).
  • Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror: British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (2007).
  • Dark Delicacies II: Fear: Shirley Jackson Award, Best Anthology (2007). Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2007).
  • Hellbound Hearts: British Fantasy Award, Best Anthology (2010).
  • The Scarlet Gospels: Goodreads Awards, Best Horror (2015). Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in a Novel (2015).
  • Gutted: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2016).
  • The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2: Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2017).

Clive Barker: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Books of Blood, Vol. 1 was an NPR: 100 Favorite Horror Stories Selection in 2018 and a Complex: 50 Books to Read Before You Die Selection in 2012.
  • The Damnation Game was a Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Horror Novels of All Time Selection in 2018.

Related Authors

Fans of Clive Barker also enjoy these authors:

  1. T. Kingfisher, author of: Nettle & Bone.
  2. Christopher Buehlman, author of the Blacktongue Series.
  3. Kiersten White, author of the Camelot Rising Series.
  4. Karina Halle, author of the Experiment In Terror Series.
  5. Alexis Henderson, author of the Bethel Series.
  6. Daniel Abraham, author of The Dagger and the Coin Series.
  7. Erin A. Craig, author of the Sisters of the Salt Series.
  8. Alma Katsu, author of: The Hunger.
  9. Guillermo del Toro, author of The Strain Trilogy Series.
  10. Cassandra Khaw, author of: Nothing But Blackened Teeth.

Clive Barker: F.A.Q

When was Clive Barker Born? How old is Clive Barker?

Clive Barker was born on October 5th, 1952. Clive Barker is currently 73 years old.

Where was Clive Barker Born?

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England and is English.

What awards has Clive Barker won?

Clive Barker has won the following awards: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bram Stoker Awards (2012).

What book awards has Clive Barker won?

Books of Blood I-III: World Fantasy Award Collection (1985).
In the Hills, the Cities: British Fantasy Award Best Short Story (1985).
The Forbidden: British Fantasy Award Best Short Story (1986).
Coldheart Canyon: Audie Award Best Male Narrator (2002).
Days of Magic, Nights of War: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in Work for Young Readers (2004).
Dark Delicacies: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2005).
Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2011).
Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2017).

What was the first book Clive Barker wrote?

The first book written by Clive Barker was Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament, published in 1984.

What was the most recent book Clive Barker wrote?

His most recently released work was Nightlives on July 10th, 2021.

What is the most popular book by Clive Barker?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Clive Barker book is The Great and Secret Show. Here are his most popular books:
  1. The Great and Secret Show (9.25)
  2. Weaveworld (8.57)
  3. Imajica (8.8)
  4. Abarat: The First Book of Hours (9.33)
  5. The Damnation Game (6.67)

What genres does Clive Barker Write?

Clive Barker primarily writes in the Fantasy and Horror genres. His work includes sub-genres such as Dark Fantasy, Supernatural Horror, and Gothic.

Are there upcoming new books by Clive Barker?

Clive Barker does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

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How many books has Clive Barker written?

Clive Barker has written 76 books across 31 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 2 books in the Book of the Art Series
  • 3 books in the Imajica Series
  • 3 books in the Abarat Series
  • 6 books in the Books of Blood Series
  • 1 book in the Galilee Series
  • 5 books in the Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) Series
  • 3 books in the Clive Barker's Next Testament Series
  • 4 books in the Clive Barker's Book of the Damned Series
  • 7 Standalone Novels
  • 16 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 12 Short Story Collections
  • 2 Graphic Novels
  • 6 Playscripts
  • 6 Non-Fiction
  • 1 P. Craig Russell Graphic Novels
  • 1 Roger Corman Graphic Novels

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