You’ve created a mirror for me to look into, and it’s a bit of a mindblower, frankly, in the best possible way.
Clive Barker

We're delighted to announce that Abrams Books is set to publish Clive Barker's Dark Worlds, a wide-ranging book covering Clive's decades of creative work, as he celebrates his 70th birthday in October 2022.
Assembled with Clive's full input and assistance, drawing on his archive and covering all aspects of his work, this richly illustrated volume showcases a creative life unconstrained by genre or medium.

Phil & Sarah : "We were approached by an editor at Abrams back in the summer of 2020 who wanted to explore the idea of a monograph that covered every aspect of Clive's work. That's quite a tall order but we’ve thoroughly enjoyed drawing on the archive to give new insight (we hope!) into the thoughts and processes behind Clive's creations in a wealth of different media. All in just 300 pages... In the end we had to stretch that to just over 350 pages and at last count we got to over 350 images as well, so hopefully it strikes the right balance between showing and describing just what makes Clive's creations resonate with such a wide audience."

A DEEP DIVE INTO THE CREATIVE WORLD AND PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF MASTER OF HORROR CLIVE BARKER.

”I've seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker.”
In the mid-eighties, Stephen King inducted a young novelist into the world of great genre writers, and since then, the genius creator has only continued to expand his field of activity, within and well beyond horror.
Created by his two closest collaborators and with the help of Barker himself, Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds spans his fantastical body of work, highlighting classic characters like Pinhead, an icon in the pantheon of horror cinema; the Hellraiser series; and cult films Nightbreed and Candyman. Barker’s anthology series Books of Blood and epic tales like Weaveworld, Abarat, The Thief of Always, and Imajica have made him a massive name in literature as well as film.
Barker has also created visual narratives for the worlds of comics, toys, and video games, while his art — his incredible paintings, drawings, and photographs, which fill these pages — has been exhibited in galleries all over the world.