Speaking of The Books of Abarat, Barker teases that there are “two more volumes still to come,” with book four being finished right now.

It’s very hard to say anything more specific than that.” In subject matter, let me say this: they visit many of the subjects that I deal with in my novels and short fiction but often take paths that only a poem can take. As for Barker’s book of poetry, that one is titled The Presence of This Breath, and he notes that it’ll include “280 poems” that “range in tone and style, and length across the board.”īarker adds, “A few of them you may recognize from the Abarat books, but the bulk of the poems will be new to most readers. Speaking with fans during an Ask-Me-Anything session over on Reddit last night, Barker spoke a bit about these and other projects that are currently in the works.įor starters, Barker says Deep Hill will be “delivered to my publisher in the next few months,” along with a new collection of short fiction that’s going to be titled Fear Eternal. He shares his house with seven dogs, three cockatiels, several undomesticated geckoes, an African gray parrot called Smokey, and a yellow-headed Amazon parrot called Malingo.There’s quite a lot happening in the world of Clive Barker at the moment, with Hulu’s film Books of Blood dropping last week, Nia DaCosta’s sequel to Candyman arriving next year, and multiple other projects in the works including a new Hellraiser movie, a Hellraiser television series for HBO, and a Nightbreed TV series being directed by Michael Dougherty.Īnd Barker himself recently teased a handful of upcoming projects, including a new novel titled Deep Hill, a novella titled Mercy and the Jackal, and new collections of both short stories and poems.

Barker has been working on a vast array of paintings to illuminate the text of The Books of Abarat, more than one hundred and twenty-five of which can be found within this volume. He is also an acclaimed painter, film producer, and director.

Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War and The Thief of Always.

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