Clive Barker Books in Order

This third volume of the Books of Blood collects five tales, including "Son of Celluloid" and "Rawhead Rex," moving from a haunted cinema to an ancient rural god and showing Barker’s gift for mixing myth, gore, and grim humor.

Philosophy student Steve befriends Quaid, a charismatic older classmate obsessed with the nature of fear. When Quaid starts engineering cruel experiments to strip people down to their worst dread, Steve discovers he is next in line.

On a road trip through rural Yugoslavia, a gay couple stumble upon a ritual in which entire villages lash themselves together into towering, walking giants. Their curiosity turns to horror when the ceremony veers toward catastrophe.

After a suicide attempt, Jacqueline Ess discovers she can reshape flesh with her mind. As she turns that power on the men around her, desire, revenge, and sheer curiosity twist bodies and lives into new and terrifying forms.

An ancient, nine‑foot beast is accidentally unearthed from a field in rural Kent and goes on a rampage through nearby villages. As the bodies pile up, a grieving father uncovers the forgotten lore that may be Rawhead’s only weakness.

A low‑ranking demon called the Yattering is assigned to torment a mild‑mannered salesman, Jack, and drive him insane. But Jack’s stubborn cheerfulness turns the haunting into a farce, with the desperate demon breaking more and more infernal rules.

Gathering stories from the fourth Books of Blood, this volume features murderous knots, rebellious hands, apocalyptic zealotry and a libido gone berserk, offering some of Barker’s most unsettling explorations of obsession and bodily transformation.

The final Books of Blood collection ranges from plague‑sealed catacombs to cursed jungles and bleak city streets, including "The Life of Death" and other tales where grief, guilt, and the supernatural feed off one another.

Ex‑con and gambling addict Marty Strauss becomes bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, a reclusive tycoon haunted by a wartime bargain with an almost demonic figure. As the debt comes due, Marty is dragged into a brutal contest over souls, addiction, and redemption.

Researching graffiti on a decaying English housing estate, graduate student Helen uncovers the legend of the Candyman—an urban myth tied to recent mutilations. Her academic curiosity leads her straight toward a very real, very personal haunting.

Occult detective Harry D’Amour is hired to guard the corpse of a famous magician whose enemies may not be human. When Hell’s agents arrive to collect what they believe they’re owed, Harry faces a battle on the border between stagecraft and damnation.

Recovering from major surgery, Elaine becomes obsessed with a derelict church being demolished in her city. Her fascination with the plague pit beneath it and a morbid stranger she meets there leads to an intimacy with death that proves literally contagious.

Hedonist Frank Cotton solves a mysterious puzzle box and summons the Cenobites, beings who promise experiences beyond pleasure and pain. When he escapes their realm in a ruined state, his former lover Julia must lure victims to restore him—until the box finds a new owner.

When young Cal Mooney glimpses a living landscape inside an old carpet, he stumbles onto the Fugue, a hidden world woven by a magical people called the Seerkind. As enemies close in to destroy it, Cal and Suzanna Parrish fight to save a paradise in exile.

Tormented by nightmares and convinced he’s a serial killer, Boone flees to the hidden necropolis of Midian, home to an underground tribe of monsters. There he discovers where he truly belongs, even as human hatred threatens to wipe the Nightbreed out.

A graphic‑novel series adapting some of Barker’s most powerful short stories from the Books of Blood, *Tapping the Vein* reimagines tales of monsters, madmen, and miracles in vivid, full‑color artwork that emphasizes both their beauty and brutality.

In a quiet American town, two men who have tampered with an occult force called the Art wage a decades‑long war over the dream sea of Quiddity, dragging their children—and reality itself—into a conflict between transcendence and corruption.

An illustrated guide to the film *Nightbreed*, this book presents portraits and profiles of Midian’s many monsters, along with production photos and notes, giving fans a closer look at the outcast community hiding beneath the cemetery.

Presented as an occult scrapbook, this first *Book of the Damned* volume collects fictional documents, images, and marginalia about the Hellraiser puzzle box, its maker, and the Cenobites, offering a grim, in‑universe companion to the main mythos.

Edited by Stephen Jones, this compendium offers interviews, essays, reviews, fiction fragments, and artwork charting Barker’s early career. It’s part biography, part critical survey, and part scrapbook of rare material for readers who want to dig deeper.

Artist John Furie "Gentle" Zacharias discovers that Earth is only one of five linked Dominions and that he played a forgotten role in a failed attempt to reunite them. His journey through these worlds forces him to confront lost memories, old loves, and godlike powers.

After a dying criminal expires behind a movie screen, a sentient cancer is born from the residue of his body and the audience’s emotions. It stalks the cinema, using iconic film images to lure victims into its deadly embrace.

The second companion volume continues the fragmented history of LeMarchand’s boxes, secret orders, and cursed seekers, layering letters, diagrams, and anecdotes into a dense portrait of how Hell’s influence threads through human lives.

This installment delves deeper into the theology and practice surrounding the Lament Configuration, presenting more recovered texts and images that hint at new configurations, cults, and the terrible ecstasies promised by the Cenobites.

Ten‑year‑old Harvey Swick, bored with school and rainy days, is lured to Mr. Hood’s Holiday House, where every day contains all four seasons and endless treats. Only slowly does he learn what the House demands in payment for such perfect fun.

The final *Book of the Damned* volume rounds out this Hellraiser companion series with more in‑world lore, case histories, and unsettling artwork, suggesting that the box’s history is far older—and more pervasive—than any one story reveals.

In the small town of Everville, built beside a mysterious threshold between Earth and the dream sea of Quiddity, old promises and new obsessions collide. Returning and new characters are drawn into a conflict that stretches across worlds and generations.

A collection of three plays—"Colossus," *The History of the Devil*, and *Frankenstein in Love*—*Incarnations* showcases Barker’s theatre work, mixing political satire, grand metaphysics, and dark comedy in scripts designed to be bold, collaborative stage events.

Tied to Barker’s film of the same name, this volume follows Harry D’Amour as he investigates the death of a famous stage magician and uncovers a fanatical cult, a resurrected sorcerer, and a conspiracy that blurs the line between trickery and true magic.

This edition presents the first half of *Imajica*, following Gentle and Judith as they uncover their hidden pasts and begin a journey from contemporary London into other Dominions, where forgotten religions, exiled peoples, and dangerous magics await.

Continuing from *The Fifth Dominion*, this volume brings the *Imajica* saga to its climax, as attempts to heal the rift between worlds force characters to choose between love, power, and the risks of remaking creation itself.

Collecting the plays *Crazyface*, *Paradise Street*, and *Subtle Bodies*, this volume presents Barker’s theatrical tales of fools and visionaries, time‑traveling schemes in Liverpool, and dream‑sea voyages where desire and rage reshape reality.

Wildlife photographer Will Rabjohns has spent his life documenting endangered species, but a near‑fatal encounter with a wounded bear dredges up childhood memories and visions. His search for meaning leads him from Yorkshire to North America in a meditation on extinction, identity, and forgiveness.

A companion to the television series, this nonfiction volume tours horror’s history from Grand Guignol and classic films to real‑world murderers and cult figures, pairing Barker’s commentary with essays and film notes compiled by editor Stephen Jones.

A sweeping family saga, *Galilee* intertwines the mortal, moneyed Geary clan with the near‑immortal Barbarossas, a godlike family whose son Galilee has loved Geary women for generations. Their entwined histories become a story about myth, power, and the price of obsession.

This hefty sampler gathers excerpts from Barker’s novels and plays plus several complete short stories, arranged thematically. It offers newcomers and long‑time readers a curated survey of his worlds, from early horror to expansive dark fantasy.

A full script of Barker’s ambitious play, this edition stages a courtroom in the African desert where Lucifer petitions to return to Heaven. Through a series of time‑hopping testimonies, the audience weighs his influence on human history.

After botched plastic surgery, fading movie star Todd Pickett hides in a forgotten mansion in a secluded canyon above Hollywood. There he encounters the house’s original owner, silent‑era vamp Katya Lupi, and the decadent, ghostly court that still haunts her tile‑lined sanctuary.

Candy Quackenbush, a bored teenager from Chickentown, Minnesota, escapes a miserable school day and finds herself swept into the Abarat, an archipelago of islands where each hour of the day has its own geography, magic, and dangers.

A collaboration between photographer David Armstrong and Barker, *Rare Flesh* pairs stylized male nudes with Barker’s provocative prose and poetry, exploring desire, fantasy, and the erotic body in a series of dark, carefully staged photo essays.

The second *Abarat* book follows Candy and her companions across more Hour Islands as Christopher Carrion and Mater Motley prepare to unleash Absolute Midnight. New alliances and betrayals reveal just how deeply Candy is woven into the Abarat’s fate.

An illustrated companion to the first three *Hellraiser* films, this book collects production stills, specially shot portraits, design sketches, and script excerpts, offering fans a visual tour of Cenobites, sets, and key scenes with an introduction by Barker.

A lavish art book showcasing hundreds of Barker’s paintings and drawings, *Visions of Heaven and Hell* presents his personal bestiary of angels, demons, landscapes, and dream figures, with brief texts that trace recurring themes across his visual and written work.

A lesser demon named Jakabok Botch, trapped inside the very book the reader holds, begs, cajoles, and threatens you to burn it while recounting his life from Hellish childhood to a fateful encounter with the first printing press.

In a secretive laboratory, experiments to create a super‑aphrodisiac go catastrophically wrong when a test subject is driven insane by unending arousal. His ensuing rampage turns uncontrolled desire into a force as destructive as any weapon.

This nonfiction collection gathers decades of Barker’s essays, introductions, reviews, and reflections on art, censorship, horror, and influence, alongside new artwork. It’s a backstage look at how he thinks about monsters, the fantastique, and his own creative process.

Written early in Barker’s career, these linked tales follow ringmaster Maximillian Bacchus and his fantastical circus—complete with crocodile, trapeze artist, clown, and giant ibis‑drawn wagon—through mythic adventures that feel like fairy stories told under a strange, starry sky.

In the third *Abarat* novel, Mater Motley unleashes a living swarm called the Sacbrood to blot out the sky, plunging the Hour Islands into endless night. Candy, juggling human loyalties and Abaratian destinies, must help rally resistance before the world is remade in darkness.

The opening volume of the modern Hellraiser comic finds the Hell Priest restless in his eternal role and plotting an escape, even if it means betraying his own Cenobites and drawing Kirsty Cotton back into the labyrinth’s orbit.

As the series continues, Kirsty and her Harrowers confront new cults and configurations while the Priest’s secret plan for freedom moves forward, threatening both Hell’s hierarchy and the fragile barrier between its torments and Earth.

This volume deepens the fallout from the Priest’s rebellion, revealing shifting alliances among Cenobites, human acolytes, and would‑be saviors as the puzzle boxes open pathways to a war over who will define suffering and salvation.

Further along in the saga, old bargains unravel and new Cenobites rise as the consequences of trying to rewrite Hell’s rules become impossible to contain, pushing familiar characters toward grim, irrevocable choices.

This slim volume presents two of Barker’s earliest pieces: "The Wood on the Hill," about a selfish woman who meets something uncanny on a country walk, and "The Candle in the Cloud," a dark fantasy in which children discover a magical candle in a doomed world.

The concluding arc of this comic run brings the long game between Kirsty, the Priest, and their enemies to a bloody climax, tying together human ambition, LeMarchand’s boxes, and the ultimate fate of Hell’s order.

Julian Demond abandons his corporate empire for a desert pilgrimage and awakens Wick, a many‑colored being who claims to be God. Together they embark on a "divine" mission that quickly becomes a bloody tour of humanity’s vices and vulnerabilities.

Subtitled "A Meditation," this two‑part novella links two atrocities separated by a thousand years along a river that seems to flow through time. Barker uses the paired stories to explore guilt, grief, and the way violence echoes across centuries.

Originally released in pieces with a line of horrific action figures, this novella—*Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium*—follows assassin Zarles Kreiger, avenger Lucidique, and others transformed by the demigod Agonistes into grotesque agents of revenge in the ancient city of Primordium.

With Wick now loose in the world and attracting followers, Julian’s son Tristan and his fiancée Elspeth struggle to survive plane crashes, cults, and collapsing cities as they search for any knowledge that might check a god’s appetite for spectacle.

The final volume drives Wick’s apocalypse toward a showdown in a hidden library, where ancient texts offer one last chance to challenge him. Tristan and Elspeth must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice to keep humanity from becoming collateral damage.

After the Hell Priest embarks on a campaign to slaughter Earth’s magicians and steal their knowledge, occult detective Harry D’Amour is pulled into a rescue mission that leads straight into a crumbling Hell—and into a final confrontation between demon and detective.

Barker’s first story collection since the *Books of Blood*, *Tonight, Again* gathers more than thirty short pieces—many explicitly erotic—each exploring desire, loneliness, obsession, and the strange places where bodies and imagination meet.

Executed murderer Tom Requiem is resurrected by agents of the Underland and appointed leader of an uncanny parade meant to terrify a complacent world. In a series of linked vignettes, he recruits killers, monsters, and victims into a traveling carnival of horrors.

One of Barker’s early Dog Company plays, *The Magician* is a surreal, small‑cast piece about illusion, power, and performance, inviting theatre companies to use masks, movement, and bold design to bring its shifting realities to life.

A hybrid of fiction, screenplay, and behind‑the‑scenes archive, *The Body Book* collects the stories "The Body Politic" and "In the Flesh" alongside Mick Garris’s unfilmed adaptation, storyboards, photos, and interviews about bringing Barker’s visceral tales to the screen.

Following the misadventures of fool Tyl Eulenspiegel, *Crazyface* blends slapstick, cruelty, and mysticism as its clownish hero blunders through wars, spy plots, and betrayals in Europe’s Dark Ages, forever skirting the line between prophecy and farce.

Created to celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s bicentennial, this Halloween comic features short pieces from multiple creators, including Barker, paying twisted tribute to Poe’s legacy of gothic tales, doomed narrators, and creeping terror.

This deluxe volume brings together Barker’s key Hellraiser prose—centered on *The Hellbound Heart*—with related material, offering a handsome, definitive edition of the story that launched the Cenobites and the puzzle box onto page and screen.

Set in a Breughel‑inspired medieval landscape, this play introduces an undead witchfinder known as the Dutchman and a snow‑bound community facing judgment. The script hints at themes and archetypes Barker would later revisit in his fiction.

Subtitled "The Life of Death," this play relocates the Frankenstein myth to a revolution‑torn country, where political prisoners, a sadistic regime, and an undead showgirl collide in a blackly comic exploration of love, tyranny, and resurrection.

In this Dog Company play, respectable politician Philip Vandenburgh discovers he may be leading a second, violent life in the city’s underworld. As his nights and days bleed together, *Nightlives* asks how well we really know the selves we hide.

An anthology focused on Liverpool’s darker corners, *Spook City* collects city‑based fiction by Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Peter Atkins, and others. Barker’s early tales sit alongside new work to paint a macabre portrait of "Liverpool after midnight."