Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where every day is filled with fun, and Christmas comes every night. Illustrated.

Le Voleur d'éternité

Un jeune étudiant expérimente sa fascination pour la folie sur son entourage ; un coureur fantôme, dans un marathon, foudroie les concurrents de son mortel regard; une femme se découvre le pouvoir de modeler a sa guise la structure du corps humain ; de nouveaux meurtres mettent en péril les résidents de la rue morgue…Cinq nouvelles histoires et cinq nouvelles confrontations de notre quotidien avec d'autres mondes, territoires de l'étrangeté au-delà de la peur et par-delà la mort… Car « aucun délice n'égale la terreur », dit Clive Barker. « Irrésistiblement, nous revenons toujours a nos peurs. »

Une course d'enfer (Livres de sang #2)

Candy Quackenbush a basculé dans un monde parallèle, l'archipel d'Abarat, composé d'îles correspondant chacune à une heure de la journée. Plus la jeune fille s'enfonce dans Abarat, plus elle risque sa vie, car Christopher Gangrène, le seigneur de Minuit, a lancé ses hommes à sa poursuite. Candy n'arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi ce tyran sanguinaire lui voue une haine si farouche. Le temps presse, pourtant : la jeune fille doit résoudre l'énigme de son passé avant que les forces de la Nuit lancent leur attaque et que le noir absolu de Minuit recouvre à jamais les îles d'Abarat.

Abarat - Jours de lumière, nuits de guerre

A famous Hollywood actor loses his looks - and is drawn into the dark and twisted world of Coldheart Canyon.

 Following extensive cosmetic surgery, Hollywood superstar Todd Pickett needs somewhere to hide away while his scars heal. His manager finds the ideal location, Coldheart Canyon - a dream-palace hidden away in a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on a map.

 In the 20s, 'A' list stars came to the Canyon to have the kind of parties nobody was supposed to know about. It wasn't just the wild sex and the drugs that made Katya's parties so memorable. There was a door in the bowels of the dream-palace, which reputedly opened onto another world - the Devils' Country - where nothing was forbidden. Nothing.

 With his refuge now a prison, Todd needs to get out of Coldheart Canyon. But to do that he must not only solve its mysteries but also face the powers that have protected it for seven decades, and that means stepping through the door.

 As a Hollywood insider with a keen eye for its idiocies and horrors Clive Barker is uniquely positioned to write this vitriolic Tinseltown ghost story. Coldheart Canyon is an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Barker's books and films a worldwide phenomenon.

Coldheart Canyon

Et si les fantômes prenaient corps ? A la morgue, le médecin légiste vient de déloger la balle qui trouait le front de Ronnie. L'ouverture, bien nette, est soudain une terre promise à son esprit encore lucide. Revivre, mais comment ? Le drap qui le recouvre absorbe ce qui reste de sa conscience comme un Kleenex efface les traces de larmes... Mais peut-être vaut-il encore mieux ce revenant drapé dans son linceul que Rawhead, l'ogre dévoreur d'enfants, qui sort de terre après des siècles... Et que dire de cette statue qui s'incarne dans ses victimes, pompant leur existence, aspirant leur âme ? Les Livres de sang... Jusqu'où Clive Barker nous entraînera-t-il ? Vers quels abîmes, quelles frayeurs ancestrales ? Cinq nouvelles à vous glacer le sang, à ne pas lire au lit, sous peine de nuit blanche !

Confessions d'un linceul (Livres de sang #3)

A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the traumatic events of his childhood.

 Will Rabjohns has everything. He's handsome, he's rich, and he's revered as the world's greatest wildlife photographer. He's also a haunted man, driven to risk his life for his art - to capture the raw tragedy of the wild, the beauty of nature's violence.

 After a near fatal encounter with a polar bear, he lies in a coma. There he must relive a central childhood memory: a meeting with ancient and terrible forces which revealed to him the mystery at the heart of nature. And he realizes that if he awakes, he must confront the darkness of his past and wage a war, not only for his own soul, but for the soul of the planet and every animal that breathes upon it.

Sacrament

À la frontière de notre monde et de celui de Quiddity, le mystérieux océan onirique, s’élève Everville. Pendant des années, personne là-bas n’a soupçonné l’existence de ce rivage à l’envoûtant éclat… Jusqu’à ce qu’une jeune femme nommée Phoebe Cobb le découvre, alors qu’elle recherche son compagnon disparu. Ainsi que le fameux détective du surnaturel Harry D’Amour, qui n’a cessé de traquer les forces maléfiques à travers le monde, et livrera peut-être bientôt son plus grand combat dans l’éternelle Everville…

Everville

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread.

Prison de chair (Livres de sang, #5)

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."

Le Voleur d'éternité

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