(born 1952 in Liverpool)
Clive Barker started his career as author of commedies and historial plays for theater. Now he switched to the horror and fantasy- genre and published several novels and short storys there. Additionally he works as Illustrator and produced some horror-movies, which show their quality that he is a multi-talented man.
Cabal
Book of blood vol. I
Book of blood vol. II
Book of blood vol. III
Book of blood vol. IV
Book of blood vol. V
Book of blood vol. VI
Weaveworld
The thief of always
Imagica
The great and secret show
Everville
Sacrament
The hellbound heart
Galilee a romance
randomly chosen copy:
The Thief of always
(Roman Heyne, 1992)
the little Harvey Swick comes into a 'holiday mansion for children' and notices almost too late, that all this is just world made of illusions, which a demon created as a trap for children, to eat their life energy and thus assure his existance eternally. Harvey suceeds finally in escaping and after returning again defeating the demon.
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