Weaveworld

Weaveworld
By Clive Barker
Published: 1987

Clive Barker creates an epic fantasy in Weaveworld. The story begins in Liverpool when a man named Cal chases down a runaway bird to a delapidated house, whose owner lies dying in the hospital. There the old womens granddaughter, Suzanna, will learn a secret that will force her and Cal into a journey to a world hidden in plain sight, into the arms of a people hidden for decades possessing power beyond there imagination, and into battle with evil. For this hidden people has enemies, the greedy salesman Shadwell, the zealous police inspector Hobart, the exiled sorceress Immacolata and her dead sisters The Hag and The Magdalena, and half a world away, in the most desolate place on Earth, an ancient creature begins to stir, possesed of a power and madness that threatens them all.

In Weaveworld Clive Barker abandons traditional horror to create a modern fantasy about the power of imagination, courage and hope. Written with his usual mixture of poetry and grit, Weaveworld is a unique imaginative work that should find a place on every readers shelf

***** out of ***** Polemarch's Pick