Clive Barker
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Long-beleaguered supernatural private investigator Harry D'Amour and his entourage of mortal sidekicks are lured to the infernal realm to serve as "witness" to what the demon Pinhead calls "my gospels": a succession of gruesome atrocities.
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator...
Author
Series
Abarat volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat continue as she makes a startling realization as to who she is, and the forces of Night begin plans for war.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
8) Hellraiser
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An old family home holds untold horrors for Larry Cotton and his wife, Julia. Horrors are fueled by the fugitive spirit of Larry's brother, Frank. Slowly, the old family home begins to swallow the Cottons.
9) Sacrament
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A gay photographer of endangered species recalls a childhood meeting with two agents of Death. They told him they were seeking the extinction of species. Suddenly, he has an intuitive flash. Aids! Is that their work too, the extinction of his kind? He embarks on a quest for an answer.
10) Candyman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
11) Abarat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
388 pages , xxv : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
Author
Series
Book of the Art volume 2
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
697 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A metaphysical fantasy novel about the parallel world of Quiddity where humans and creatures battle for possession of "The Art," the power to manipulate time and space. By the author of The Great and Secret Show.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, the novella takes us into the heart of the legendary "first city" known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation. Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as "Agonistes," who accepts the pleas of selected "Supplicants," transforming them, through a combination of art, magic, and pain, into...
Author
Series
Book of the Art volume 1
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
550 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When postal clerk Randolph Jaffe stumbles across a dead letter room full of revelations abut a secret and awesome power known as the Art, he finds himself entangled in a battle between good and evil in a quiet California town.
Series
Sandman library volume 7
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Morpheus, the King of Dreams, continues to observe and interact with an odd assortment of historical and fictional characters throughout time. This book of myth and imagination delves into their dark dreams to illustrate the effects that these subconscious musings have had on the course of history and mankind.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 592 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes to the US to delight and terrify thriller enthusiasts. This has been the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. This newest volume offers outstanding new writing by masters of the genre, such as Joan Aiken, Peter...
20) Candyman
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A search for dissertation material leads a graduate student to an old tale about a slave spirit said to haunt a notorious housing project. Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people...
