這是一場不容改變勝負結果的詛咒遊戲。
縱使一切任憑自己做主，人類終究還是擺脫不了命運和無常的操弄。
打從有記憶以來，機運就一直左右著馬帝．史特勞斯的人生。
現在，好運總算站到了他這一邊。
他接下約瑟夫．懷特海德的保鑣工作而獲得從監獄假釋出來的機會。
懷特海德是全歐洲最富有的人，他也在玩弄「機運」這個古老的遊戲，因而取得龐大的權力和財富。
而他所付出的代價，就是他那不朽的靈魂。
現在，與他玩這場遊戲的那股可怕力量又回來了。
它將要索討它應得的回報，在這個虛假的城市裡來去自如，恣意操控著世界。
馬帝陷在雇主和惡魔之間進退兩難，眼看著只剩下最後一場亡命遊戲可以玩了……
令當代恐怖大師史蒂芬．金讚嘆不已的克里夫．巴克，
將再次透過他那充滿爆發力的描寫，引領您進入恐怖文學的昇華境界。

Hell has come home as Clive Barker returns to writing his signature creation!
Clive Barker has “touched” Hellraiser only twice before: once to write The Hellbound Heart, and once more to write and direct the original Hellraiser film. With the HELLRAISER ongoing series, witness Barker’s long-awaited return to tell a new chapter in the official continuity — a trajectory that will forever change the Cenobites…and Pinhead! So prepare your soul for an epic journey into horror from one of the medium’s greatest voices, and starring one of the medium’s greatest characters, in an unforgettable new chapter of Hellraiser.

Comics' greatest talent (Wachowski, Bolton, McDuffie, Dorman, Conrad, Nutman, Villagran, Van Fleet) unleashed with the graphic potential of Barker's horrifying world of warring order and chaos. The second Hellraiser collection from CheckerBPG features nearly 200 pages in jaw-dropping full color. The stories include: Razing Hell (Parts 1-3), Sheddim, The Pleasures of Deception, Of Love, Cats, and Curiosity, Songs of Metal and Flesh, Old Wives Tale, The Blood of a Poet, Canons of Pain, Cenobite, Fury.

A horrifying and spellbinding tale by the “great imaginer of our time” (Quentin Tarantino) and New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker about the magical world lying right beneath our feet.

In a home of an elderly woman in Liverpool lies a carpet.

Suzanna Parish is called to Liverpool after her grandmother has a stroke. Cal Mooney is on the run from an escaped homing pigeon. Together they find themselves accidently drawn into the strange world that lies beneath the mysterious rug. Here, a race of magical beings have hidden themselves from the normal world to escape human persecution and an evil known as the Scourge. But two other evils, a ruthless witch and her sidekick, seek the carpet for their own gain and will do whatever it takes to find it. As the intricate weavings of the tapestry come undone, Suzanna and Cal must face their biggest fears to save this discovered land and all its inhabitants.

Brutal, beautiful, brilliant, and full of his original illustrations, Clive Barker spins his best in this “unhinged and indulgent” (Entertainment Weekly) imaginative tale.

Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back--though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always , delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!

A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...

It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.

When the answer comes, it’s not one she expects.

Welcome to the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day. Candy has a place in this extraordinary land: She is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart—forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. She’s a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world.

And in the Abarat, all things are possible.

Don't miss this first book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank - or what is left of Frank - waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions… and a little flesh and blood…

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.

Barker turns from his usual horror to epic-length fantasy for this account of the Fugue, a magical land inhabited by descendants of supernatural beings who once shared the earth with humans. The Fugue has been woven into a carpet for protection against those who would destroy it; the death of its guardian occasions a battle between good and particularly repulsive evil forces for control of the Fugue. Weaveworld is rich with memorable characters, exciting situations, and pockets of Barker's trademark horror.

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.

Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.

The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."

Damning souls can be fun and easy! Just follow these simple direction (complete recipes inside!)..

Take Clive Barker's fiendish concepts.
Add a pinch of a get-rich-quick scheme built on human. Marinate with an evangilist whose sermons echo the abyss. Stir in a children's show hosted by the clown prince of hell. And season with a demonic brigade of Cenobites declaring war on humanity.

Scream thoroughly and bake for all eternity.


Contents:
I in the Pyramid by Bob Washington, John Rheaume
Demons to Some, Angels to Others by Nicholas Vince, John Bolton
Under the Knife by Ron Wolfe, Bill Reinhold
Clowning Around by D.G. Chichester, Kyle Baker
The Devil's Brigade, Part One: A Call to Arms by D.G. Chichester, Dwayne McDuffie, Paris Cullens, Tom Palmer

Time to deal another dead man's hand, courtesy of croupier Clive Barker and his cruel conceits. Here's how the cards fall tonight...

A pair of lovers must test their relationship -- beyond the grave. Vietnam makes a soldier and a Cenobite into two-of-a-kind. Flush with terror, a mother battles monstrosities for her son's soul. And when a gambler bets on the wrong horse, it's a straight-to-hell.

Stir in a round...you may find the stakes irresistable.

In fact, we'd bet your life on it.


Contents:
Original Sin by Ron Wolfe, SMS
Lingerings by James R. Smith, Jamie Tolagson
Tunnel of Love by Erik Saltzgaber, Joe Barruso
The Trainer by Bill Mummy, Miguel Ferrer, Bill Wray

Cenobites weave unholy patterns
with ropey strands of brain tissue.
A tortued soul binds the pages of
a young girl's diary. The smallest
flicker of Hell's fire is all it takes
to char a family's flesh.

Sacrificing a brother's eye leads to
a dark cult of suicide. They're all
tasty parts of Clive
Barker's diabolic playthings, a
a puzzel still in need of a few more pieces...

... why not see if you fit in?


Contents:
Firetrap by James Robert Smith, Mike Hoffman
Glitter and Go by Ron Wolfe, Dan Spiegle
Mazes of the Mind by Mark Nelson
Dear Diary by Sholly Fisch, Colleen Doran

Winding and wicked are the roads to Hell.
Roads filled with actors trading masks of
comedy and tragedy for ones of human
flesh. Roads backed up with vets whose
wars could never leave enough scars to
please the Cenobites. Roads paved with
lost travelers offering their souls for a final
glimpse of the light. But there are shortcuts
to Hell, as well , mapped out inside these
pages by the infernal imaginings of Clive
Barker. They're guaranteed to get you
down below in style.

Getting back is your problem.


Contents:
Cenobite! by Nicholas Vince, John Van Fleet
Like Flies to Wanton Boys by Bunny Hampton-Mack, Scott Hampton
To Prepare a Face by Jan Strnad, Mark Chiarello

The delightful Wickedness of Clive Barker's Hell
waits for its victims in more than mere puzzle boxes.
It waits in the mystery of crystal lifeforms
lightyears away. It waits in seductive whispers of
evil at a Parisian artists' colony. It waits in the
notes a musical genius plays on the way to madness.
Inside these pages, Hell waits for you--
and it can afford to be patient.

It has eternity on its side.


Contents:
The Crystal Precipice by Jan Strnad, Steve Buccellato, Stan Drake
The Blood of a Poet by R.J.M. Lofficier, John Ridgeway
Songs of Metal and Flesh by Peter Atkins, Dave Dorman, Lurene Haines

Behind prison walls, hellish box offers freedom--
at a price. Nerves unfeeling, a leper seeks
new sensations with the Cenobites. The limits of
pain probed by computer. At damnation's
heart, a writer's perfect work requires...changes.
A gallery hangs canvasses stretched skin
tight and painted red.

These are pieces eager to slip into their place in the
puzzle, throwing wide the door to hell and
setting loose five all new tales sprung from the dark
and deadly universe of Clive Barker.

Contents:
The Vault by Marc McLaurin, Jorge Zaffino
Driver's Hands by James Robert Smith, Mike Hoffman
Writer's Lament by Dwayne McDuffie, Kevin O'Neil
The Threshold by Mark Kneece, Scott Hampton
The Pleasures of Deception by Philip Nutman, Bill Koeb

All-new chilling tales that take you beyond
the horror that began in Clive Barker's
darkly malevolent films--tales of terror the
movies don't dare unleash...

Contents:
The Canons of Pain by Erik Stalgaber, John Bolton
Dead Man's Hand by Shelly Fische, Dan Spiegle
The Warm Red by Jan Strnad, Bernie Wrightson
Dance of the Fetus by Ted McKeever

”Han hade begått ett misstag när han öppnade Lemarchands ask. Ett mycket förskräckligt misstag.”

Girighet och kärlek, kärlekslöshet och förtvivlan, åtrå och död, liv och fångenskap, krokar, kedjor och blod: Clive Barkers blodisande mästerverk om förbjuden åtrå och fruktansvärd återuppståndelse som låg till grund för filmen Hellraiser.

Frank Cottons omättliga aptit på smärtans mörka njutningar ledde honom till mysteriet med Lemarchands kub, och därifrån till en död som bara en störd själ kunde tänka ut. Men hans brors kärlekstörstande fru, Julia, har upptäckt ett sätt att återuppväcka Frank – men priset blir blodigt och fruktansvärt … och det kommer definitivt kosta så in i helvete.

Caroline Grimwalkers översättning av The hellbound heart är den första till svenska.