Weaveworld
Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the world’s most outstanding dark fantasist.WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to.WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. It is a triumph of imagination and storytelling, an adventure, a nightmare, a promise…‘Barker’s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind.’ THE MAIL ON SUNDAY.
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CLIVE BARKER
WEAVEWORLD
Harper Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1987
Copyright © Clive Barker 1987
Introduction copyright © Clive Barker 1996
Drawings by Tim White
The publishers would like to acknowledge permission to quote from the following material.
Lines from The Tryst by Walter de la Mare published by permission of the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their representatives. Lines from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening from THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward Connery Lathem by permission of the Estate of Robert Frost and Jonathan Cape Ltd. Lines from The Two from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.H. AUDEN reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
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Source ISBN: 9780006483007
Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2010 ISBN: 9780007382965
Version: 2018-11-09
To D.J.D
‘… the spirit has its homeland, which is the realm of the meaning of things.’
Saint Exupéry The Wisdom of the Sands
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE: IN THE KINGDOM OF THE CUCKOO
| I | HOMING |
| II | THE PURSUERS |
| III | WHO MOVED THE GROUND? |
| IV | CONTACT |
| V | BEFORE THE DARK |
| VI | MAD MOONEY |
Part Two: Births, Deaths and Marriages
| I | THE SUIT OF LIGHTS |
| II | THE SKIN OF THE TEETH |
| III | SELLING HEAVEN |
| IV | NUPTIALS |
| V | IN THE ARMS OF MAMA PUS |
| VI | SICK SOULS |
| VII | THE TALL-BOY |
| VIII | FOLLOWING THE THREAD |
| IX | FINDERS KEEPERS |
| X | THE MENSTRUUM |
| I | THE RIVER |
| II | WAKING IN THE DARK |
| III | WHAT SHE TOLD |
| IV | NIGHT TERRORS |
| V | FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES |
| VI | EVENTS IN A HIGH WIND |
| VII | THE AFTERMATH |
| VIII | NECESSARY EVILS |
| IX | ON THE MIGHT OF PRINCES |
| X | HUMANKINDNESS |
| XI | THREE VIGNETTES |
Part Four: What Price Wonderland?
| I | TO SELL IS TO OWN |
| II | TELL ME NO LIES |
| III | SO NEAR. SO FAR |
| IV | BREAKING THE LAW |
| V | THRESHOLD |
| I | CAL, AMONGST MIRACLES |
| II | AT THE LAKE, AND LATER |
| III | DELUSIONS |
| IV | ALLEGIANCES |
| V | THE ORCHARD OF LEMUEL LO |
| VI | CAPRA’S HOUSE |
| VII | SHADWELL ON HIGH |
| VIII | THE VIRGIN BLOODED |
| IX | NEVER, AND AGAIN |
| X | THE SUMMONS |
| XI | AT THE GAZEBO |
| XII | A VANISHING BREED |
| XIII | A PROPOSAL |
Part Six: Back Among the Blind Men
| I | TIME’S GONE BY |
| II | DESPAIR |
| III | FORGETFULNESS |
| IV | THE NOMADS |
| V | OUR LADY OF THE BONES |
| VI | THE BRITTLE MACHINE |
| VII | TALES OF SPOOK CITY |
| I | THE MESSENGER |
| II | SEEING THE LIGHT |
| III | CHARISMA |
| IV | AS GOOD MEN GO |
| V | THE HOURS PASS |
| VI | HELLO, STRANGER |
| VII | LOST CAUSES |
| VIII | NEW EYES FOR OLD |
| IX | A SECRET PLACE |
| X | FATALITIES |
| XI | CAL, TRAVELLING NORTH |
| XII | RESOLUTION |
| I | STRATEGY |
| II | THE BURIAL PARTY |
| III | THE HORSE UNHARNESSED |
| IV | THE ROPE-DANCERS |
| V | NONESUCH |
| VI | THE FLESH IS WEAK |
| VII | AN OPEN BOOK |
| VIII | THE ESSENTIAL DRAGON |
