Order of Clive Barker Books

Order of Clive Barker Books


Clive Barker is an English author, film director and artist who works in the fantasy and horror genres. He first got noticed in the mid-80s by writing short horror stories. Later on, he moved to fantasy and urban fantasy with novels like Weaveworld. He is the director of Hellraiser, which was based on his novella The Hellbound Heart. His short story The Forbidden was also adapted into the Candyman film series.

Clive Barker made his debut in 1981 with the collection Books of Blood Volume 1, published in 1981. His first novel was The Damnation Game, published in 1985. Below is a list of Clive Barker’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Book of the Art Books

The Great and Secret Show

(1989)

Everville

(1994)

Publication Order of Imajica Books

Imajica

(1991)

The Fifth Dominion

(1995)

The Reconciliation

(1995)

Publication Order of Abarat Books

Abarat: The First Book of Hours

(2002)

Days of Magic, Nights of War

(2004)

Absolute Midnight

(2011)

Publication Order of Books of Blood Books

Books of Blood, Vol. 1

(1984)

Books of Blood Volume 2

(1984)

Books Of Blood Volume 3

(1984)

Book Of Blood Volume 4 / The Inhuman Condition

(1985)

Book of Blood Volume 5 / In the Flesh

(1985)

Books of Blood Volume 6

(1985)

Publication Order of Galilee Books

Galilee

(1998)

Publication Order of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (2011) Books

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 1

(2011)

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 2

(2012)

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 3

(2012)

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 4

(2012)

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 5

(2013)

Publication Order of Clive Barker’s Next Testament Books

Clive Barker’s Next Testament Vol. 1

(2013)

Clive Barker’s Next Testament Vol. 2

(2015)

Clive Barker’s Next Testament Vol. 3

(2015)

Publication Order of Clive Barker’s Book of the Damned Books

Book of the Damned

(1991)

Book of the Damned II

(1992)

Book of the Damned III

(1992)

Book of the Damned IV

(1993)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Damnation Game

(1985)

Weaveworld

(1987)

Cabal

(1988)

The Thief of Always

(1992)

Sacrament

(1996)

Coldheart Canyon

(2001)

Mister B. Gone

(2007)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament

(1984)

Dread

(1984)

Rawhead Rex

(1984)

The Yattering And Jack

(1984)

In the Hills, the Cities

(1984)

The Last Illusion

(1985)

The Life of Death

(1985)

The Forbidden

(1985)

The Hellbound Heart

(1986)

The Nightbreed Chronicles

(1989)

Son of Celluloid

(1991)

Haeckel\’s

(2005)

The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus

(2009)

Tortured Souls

(2014)

Infernal Parade

(2017)

Hellraiser: The Toll

(2018)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Books of Blood I-III

(1984)

Tapping the Vein (With: P. Craig Russell)

(1989)

Lord of Illusions

(1995)

Incarnations

(1995)

Forms of Heaven

(1996)

The Essential Clive Barker

(1999)

Clive Barker’s First Tales

(2013)

Chiliad

(2014)

The Scarlet Gospels

(2015)

Tonight, Again

(2015)

Clive Barker’s the Body Book

(2018)

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

(with Roger Corman)

Age of Desire (With: P. Craig Russell)

(2008)

Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book (With: Roger Corman)

(2018)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Clive Barker’s Shadows in Eden (With: Stephen Jones)

(1991)

Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror (With: Stephen Jones)

(1997)

Rare Flesh

(2003)

The Hellraiser Chronicles (With: Stephen Jones)

(2004)

Visions of Heaven and Hell

(2005)

The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

(2008)

Publication Order of Roger Corman Graphic Novels

(with Roger Corman)

Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book (With: Roger Corman)

(2018)

Publication Order of Nightbreed Books

(with Marc Andreyko)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #1 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #2 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #3 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #4 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #5 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #6 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #7 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #8 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2014)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #9 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2015)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #10 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2015)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #11 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2015)

Clive Barker’s Nightbreed #12 (By: Marc Andreyko)

(2015)

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Publication Order of Mondo Books

Mondo Barbie (By: John Varley,Lynne Barrett,Julia Alvarez,Philip Levine,A.M. Homes,David Trinidad,Sandra Cisneros,Marge Piercy,Gary Soto,Roberta Allen,Alice McDermott,Hilary Tham,Lyn Lifshin,Rebecca Brown,Denise Duhamel,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Jeanne Beaumont,Lynne McMahon,Kathryn Harrison,Patricia Storace,Richard Grayson,Leslie Shiel,Laura Costas,Sharon Henry,Cookie Lupton,Lisa B. Herskovits,Belinda Subraman,Ellie Schoenfeld,Sparrow .,Gregg Shapiro,Cathryn Hankla,Wayne E. Kline,Jose Padua,Jeff Weddle)

(1993)

Mondo Elvis (By: Howard Waldrop,Cornelius Eady,Mark Childress,Susie Mee,Nick Cave,Mark Winegardner,Rafael Alvarez,Greil Marcus,Pagan Kennedy,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Lynne McMahon,Cathryn Hankla,Samuel Charters,Rachel Salazar,Eleanor Earle Crockett,Diane Wakoski,Judy Vernon,David Wojahn,William McCranor Henderson,Janice Eidus,Elizabeth Ash Vélez,Laura Kalpakian,Eri Makino,Ai,Michael Wilkerson,Brian Gilmore)

(1994)

Mondo Marilyn (With: J.G. Ballard,Michael Hemmingson,Doris Grumbach,Beth Meacham,Lynne Tillman,Charles Bukowski,David Trinidad,Tom Whalen,Sharon Olds,Leslie Pietrzyk,Lyn Lifshin,Nanci Griffith,Robert Peters,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Jeanne Beaumont,Gregg Shapiro,Judy Grahn,Sam Toperoff,Julia P. Dubner,Bill Morris,John Rechy,L.A. Lantz,Phyllis Burke,Hillary Johnson,Rita Valencia,Michael Lally,Eleanor E. Crocket,Taylor Mead,Susan Compo,Rosanne Daryl Thomas)

(1995)

Mondo James Dean (By: Lewis Shiner,Jack C. Haldeman II,Bentley Little,Michael Hemmingson,Chuck Taylor,Michael Martone,Louisa Ermelino,Terence Winch,Lucinda Ebersole,Richard Peabody,Sparrow .,Janice Eidus,Ai,Tino Villanueva,Edwin Corley,Robert Ready,Reuben Jackson,Stephanie Hart,D.E. Steward,David Plumb,Ed Graczyk,Hilary Howard,James Finney Boylan,Miranda Schwartz)

(1996)

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Publication Order of Anthologies

Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King

(1986)

Cutting Edge

(1986)

Gaslight & Ghosts

(1988)

Horror Factor 7

(1988)

Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology

(1990)

I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror

(1991)

The Mammoth Book of Vampires

(1992)

Visions of Fear

(1992)

The Giant Book of Zombies

(1993)

Best New Horror 4

(1993)

Splatterpunks II

(1993)

The Mammoth Book of Zombies

(1993)

The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein

(1994)

The Mammoth Book of Erotica

(1994)

The Giant Book of Terror

(1994)

Sea-Cursed

(1994)

The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves

(1994)

Space Movies

(1995)

Mondo Marilyn

(1995)

Dark Terrors 2

(1996)

Giant Book of Fantasy Tales

(1996)

Secret City

(1997)

Millenium

(1997)

Dark Detectives

(1999)

Dark Delicacies

(2005)

Best New Horror 17

(2006)

Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror

(2006)

The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration

(2006)

Summer Chills

(2007)

The Mammoth Book of Monsters

(2007)

Dark Delicacies: Fear

(2007)

The New Weird

(2008)

The Living Dead

(2008)

Hellbound Hearts

(2009)

The Dead That Walk

(2009)

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

(2010)

Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters

(2011)

Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

(2011)

The Mammoth Book of Body Horror

(2012)

Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective

(2013)

Shivers VII

(2013)

Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead

(2013)

Mister October, Volume II

(2013)

Turn Down the Lights

(2013)

Best New Horror 25

(2014)

Horrorology

(2015)

Gutted

(2016)

Detours

(2016)

Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

(2017)

Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar

(2017)

The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2

(2017)

Behind the Mask – Tales from the Id

(2018)

Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep

(2018)

Best of Best New Horror Volume 2

(2020)

Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology

(2021)

Revelations

(2022)

Multiverses: An anthology of alternate realities

(2023)

Spook City

(2024)

Notes: Books of Blood Volume 4 was also titled The Inhuman Condition. Books of Blood 5 is also titled In the Flesh.