No books, but plenty of other things (shirts, mugs, journals, phone cases, bags) here if anyone would like to support Clive and pick up something nice:
Much of his art, while interesting, is just not to my taste, but some designs did do it for me:
A Tree Full of Sky
Sandpaper Trees
Two Forests
Hark's Harbor
Tidal
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I went back and looked at some of my books. I think that the shift occurred well before the accident.Originally Posted by Br!an
Yes.
FYI, Cemetery Dance has some lettered editions of The Damnation Game (which is shipping now) available for any who might be interested.
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Helping a friend sell some of his collection. . Please send me an offer and I will pass it on to him.
The Scarlet Gospels Clive Barker U of 26
The Hellbound Heart Clive Barker 27/250
The Painter, The Creature, The Father Of Lies Clive Barker E of 26
https://www.harperwildeco.com/forum/...itles-for-sale
I've recently been reading some Clive Barker for the first time - iI bought two BCE Poseidon Press hardcovers of In the Flesh and The Inhuman Condition. Suffice to say, I'm quickly finding myself hooked and would like to pick up the rest of the books of blood. That said, I'm not really hunting for collectible editions. I'd be content to get the rest in similar vintage hardcovers, BCE's would be fine. It's my understanding that Poseidon Press didnt print them all, but it seems convoluted. Is there a good starting point on collecting for Barker? Anyone have a stack of...non collectible (for lack of a batter term) vintage hardcovers? I feel a bit directionless here but am certainly interested.
AN UPDATE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF:
https://twitter.com/RealCliveBarker/...22851462909952Guys! I’m here! I’m back! It’s been a long silence, I know, but I am returning to the fold with a new novel, DEEP HILL, a large collection of out-of-print short stories, NEW short stories and a novella called MERCY AND THE JACKAL, the collection to be called FEAR ETERNAL.
I’m also ready to release a large volume of some 250 poems, edited by Paulo Lorca and published by @philandsarah, much more news to share soon. Much love from your crazy author.
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That's great. I guess he is feeling better which is a very good thing.
My Collection
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Yesterday was a big Clive Barker day for me, not only with this news, but my copy of Imajica (original US hardcover) finally arrived. Starting on June 8, I'd ordered it twice from the same AbeBooks seller, and both times it didn't get to me (nor, according to USPS' website, did it get to the post office to begin with), then I tried another AbeBooks seller, who, it turns out, A) actually had a copy of the book and B) knew where the local post office was. Fucking finally.
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The poetry collection is entitled The Presence of This Breath.
Clive reads some from it here: http://youtu.be/sQVrvO5gMrA
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From an interview with Den of Geek:
“Things are cyclical. For a while, I was doing a lot of fantasy, and I did obviously (fantasy novel) The Thief of Always, and stuff like that. I’ve got a bunch more stories (like The Thief of Always), which are coming. But I also felt the need to go back to my horror roots, and doing it unapologetically.”https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/nightbr...arker-returns/“The idea of doing Deep Hill, which is the novel, and then following it with — whichever order they go in — Fear Eternal, which is the collection of short stories…there are a lot of short stories,” he says. “I’ve always been a big fan of (Stephen King’s) The Mist. I wanted to do something at that length. So I’ve done something called Mercy and the Jackal, which is a novella that’s about that length.”
He talked to ComingSoon.net about an upcoming series version of Nightbreed (based on Cabal, of course), for which he is "currently writing 'the bible' for the world of the titular group":
https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1...htbreed-series“It’s exciting, after 30 years, to go back to these characters and find out who’s still speaking to me, who wants their story told,” Barker brightly expressed. “My tongue isn’t in my cheek when I say that as when I start a piece, it’s listening. The writing is a piece of listening, I’ve always said I was a journalist and what I was reporting on was the space between my ears.”
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Some good stuff there.
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Yesterday, Barker did a Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comm...d_imaginer_my/
Some interesting bits:
There are 2 more volumes of Abarat still to come. And a huge portion of it has not yet been revealed by me. The complexity of Abarat [25 islands, each one a different time of the day] is very complicated and quite challenging.
I’m finishing off on book four of Abarat now, still have some paintings to make to illustrate it.
And then I will go straight on to the final book, Quintet.
This has been the most lengthy and complex of the projects that I’ve attempted and I’m excited to revisit the world for the last two volumes.I handwrite everything on a college-ruled paper with a Pentel pen. I should say black Pentel pen.
I’ve always done this. All my books are handwritten, which adds up to a large number of hand-written pages, like Imajica.
My working day is consistent. At the moment, every day is the same because I’m in lockdown. I begin between 9:30 and 10 in the morning and write through the day until 9 or 10 at night.
On days when I'm also painting, I'll use the period between 6 o’clock at night and 10 to paint.I have one story about the Books of Blood, which may entertain you. I was struggling to find the titles for the stories, until one night, at a party, I was offered some brownies. I like brownies. I ate three.
Only then was I told they were laced with weed, which I was not familiar with as an experience. I didn’t smoke it, eat it. My mind went gonzo for a while, and I titled several of the stories.
I suppose the marijuana liberated some part of my brain that provided answers which must’ve been somewhere hiding between my ears. It was an extraordinary experience. And I still laugh about it.In the last month or so, several projects that I’ve always wanted to see as films or television series have been pursued by producers and will be turned into events for television or cinema in the next few years.
They include: Imajica, Weaveworld, Nightbreed, more tales from the Books of Blood, and also a television series based upon the comic called Ectokid. There are others in the works, but all of those are moving along nicely....my next novel, Deep Hill, and...my new collection of short fiction, which is called Fear Eternal. Both those books will be delivered to my publisher in the next few months.
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Anyone familiar with pricing of Maximillian Bacchus Ultra Edition?
New interview with Clive: https://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel35.html
Short on actual news, though.
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Has anyone read the original hardcover of Abarat? I've heard that the illustrations (paintings) are a big part of it, but I just got the paperback, and it has none, so I'm wondering how much I'm missing out on.
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I would say that yes, because of the shear amount of artwork that he made for the books, as he wrote the books, that they are integral to the book and reading of the book.
"That which you think, becomes your world" Matheson
Damn.I would say that yes, because of the shear amount of artwork that he made for the books, as he wrote the books, that they are integral to the book and reading of the book.
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There are so many paintings in this that it reads like an adult picture book - I am sorry to say that you really missed out on a treat if you read the paperback. The are meant to be absorbed together. I hope you get a hard cover for the second book.Damn.I would say that yes, because of the shear amount of artwork that he made for the books, as he wrote the books, that they are integral to the book and reading of the book.
There is a french magazine out, just now, with a brand new interview with Clive Barker... as well as 2 short unpublished poems !
The text is both in french and english. I considered buying it but didnt in the end (it'ss 9 euros, so about 12-15 usd I guess)
Please let me know if anybody here is interested
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For Sale: Clive Barker - Books of Blood Stealth Press Limited Edition #52/500. ***$450***
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Anyone know the going rate for the SubPress Books of Blood 6 volume limited set?
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What is estimated value of the BE Trice slipcase limited editions of Abarat 1 & 2? Beautiful books and I never see them for sale anywhere. I always wished they had done a limited of the 3rd book as well.
Because Clive is "prepared to release a number of works on paper for sale" beginning later today, a new interview is posted on his site:
https://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel36.html
(It's dated March 27, 2020, but I think that must be a misprint (I suspect 2021).)
Mostly discusses his art, some of which relates to forthcoming Abarat volumes, but also mentioned this:
"...I’ve been writing a lot about London because of these stories, and I think you can probably now talk about the fact that I’m doing these Theatre of Blood stories with Mick Garris. This is Clive Barker’s Theatre of Blood. It is ten new, utterly new, stories written in the tradition, if you will, of The Books of Blood, directly in that tradition. In other words, in my head even though we’re changing media I am thinking that these are ten more stories to become the seventh Book of Blood, if you will. And it was Mick’s idea to call it the Theatre of Blood, which I think is perfect.
"Two of them are set in London, and London has always been a city of ghosts and this, I think, is a nineteenth century ghost, judging by his top hat, and that’s all there is to say about him, I think. He doesn’t have a place in the narrative, per se, but he’s there."
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Not connected with this interview, but the Instagram of Phil and Sarah Stokes (who run Clive's social media) recently said (in a response to a comment on one of their posts) that they "should have more news before too long" on Deep Hill and Fear Eternal.
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I'd rather hear a concrete update on Abarat 4
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