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Home / Authors / Clive Barker Clive Barker British author best known for the *Hellraiser* series and the *Books of Blood* collections. His works have sold millions worldwide and cemented his legacy as a master of horror and dark fantasy. This page provides the Clive Barker books in order, including both chronological publication order and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1978 The Odd Job(By: Bernard McKenna,Colin Bostock-Smith) POoECB · 1 Buy ↗ 1979 Dracula in Love(By: John Shirley) POoECB · 2 Buy ↗ 1983 Killer Flies(By: MarkKendall) POoECB · 3 Buy ↗ 1984 Books of Blood, Vol. 1 POoBoBB · 1 Buy ↗ 1984 Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament POoSS · 1 Buy ↗ 1984 Books of Blood I-III POoSSC · 1 Buy ↗ 1984 Books of Blood Volume 2 POoBoBB · 2 Buy ↗ 1984 Rawhead Rex POoSS · 3 Buy ↗ 1984 Books Of Blood Volume 3 POoBoBB · 3 Buy ↗ 1984 The Yattering And Jack POoSS · 4 Buy ↗ 1984 In the Hills, the Cities POoSS · 5 Buy ↗ 1985 The Damnation Game POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1985 Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6 POoSSC · 2 Buy ↗ 1985 Book Of Blood Volume 4 / The Inhuman Condition POoBoBB · 4 Buy ↗ 1985 Book of Blood Volume 5 / In the Flesh POoBoBB · 5 Buy ↗ 1985 The Last Illusion POoSS · 6 Buy ↗ 1985 Books of Blood Volume 6 POoBoBB · 6 Buy ↗ 1985 The Life of Death POoSS · 7 Buy ↗ 1985 The Forbidden POoSS · 8 Buy ↗ 1986 The Hellbound Heart POoSS · 9 Buy ↗ 1987 Volume I: The Color of Evil POoTDDB · 1 Buy ↗ 1987 Weaveworld POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1988 In Darkness Waiting(By: John Shirley) POoECB · 4 Buy ↗ 1989 The Great and Secret Show POoBotAB · 1 Buy ↗ 1989 Tapping the Vein POoSSC · 3 Buy ↗ 1989 The Nightbreed Chronicles POoSS · 10 Buy ↗ 1990 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield POoTDDB · 2 Buy ↗ 1990 The Rain Ghost(By: Garry Douglas Kilworth) POoECB · 5 Buy ↗ 1991 Imajica POoIB · 1 Buy ↗ 1991 Book of the Damned POoCBBotDB · 1 Buy ↗ 1991 Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden(With: Stephen Jones) POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1991 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness POoTDDB · 3 Buy ↗ 1991 Son of Celluloid POoSS · 11 Buy ↗ 1992 Murder Mysteries(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) POoPCRGN · 1 Buy ↗ 1992 An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(With: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Richard Matheson,Daphne du Maurier,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell) POoFoFAB · 1 Buy ↗ 1992 Book of the Damned II POoCBBotDB · 2 Buy ↗ 1992 Book of the Damned III POoCBBotDB · 3 Buy ↗ 1992 The Thief of Always POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 1993 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) POoMB · 1 Buy ↗ 1993 Book of the Damned IV POoCBBotDB · 4 Buy ↗ 1994 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 V�lez,Laura Kalpakian,Eri Makino,Ai,Michael Wilkerson,Brian Gilmore) POoMB · 2 Buy ↗ 1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(By: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford) POoFoFAB · 2 Buy ↗ 1994 Everville POoBotAB · 2 Buy ↗ 1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,David G. Hartwell,Thomas Hardy,Gertrude Atherton,Thomas M. Disch,Elizabeth Engstrom,Carlos Fuentes) POoFoFAB · 3 Buy ↗ 1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear(With: David G. Hartwell,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Richard Matheson,Philip K. Dick,Octavia E. Butler,Gerald Durrell) POoFoFAB · 4 Buy ↗ 1995 The Fifth Dominion POoIB · 2 Buy ↗ 1995 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) POoMB · 3 Buy ↗ 1995 The Reconciliation POoIB · 3 Buy ↗ 1995 Lord of Illusions POoSSC · 4 Buy ↗ 1995 Incarnations POoSSC · 5 Buy ↗ 1996 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) POoMB · 4 Buy ↗ 1996 Sacrament POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 1996 Forms of Heaven POoSSC · 6 Buy ↗ 1996 Courage Under Fire(By: Patrick Sheane Duncan) POoECB · 6 Buy ↗ 1997 Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror(With: Stephen Jones) POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1998 Galilee POoGB · 1 Buy ↗ 1999 The History of the Devil POoPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1999 The Essential Clive Barker POoSSC · 7 Buy ↗ 2001 Coldheart Canyon POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 2002 Abarat: The First Book of Hours POoAB · 1 Buy ↗ 2002 A Private War(By: Patrick Sheane Duncan) POoECB · 7 Buy ↗ 2003 Rare Flesh POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 2004 Days of Magic, Nights of War POoAB · 2 Buy ↗ 2004 The Hellraiser Chronicles(With: Stephen Jones) POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 2005 Visions of Heaven and Hell POoNB · 5 Buy ↗ 2005 Haeckel\'s POoSS · 12 Buy ↗ 2007 Mister B. Gone POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ 2007 Criminal Macabre(By: Steve Niles) POoECB · 8 Buy ↗ 2008 Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) POoGN · 1 Buy ↗ 2008 Coraline(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) POoPCRGN · 2 Buy ↗ 2008 The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 2009 The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus POoSS · 13 Buy ↗ 2011 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1 POoCBH(B · 1 Buy ↗ 2011 Absolute Midnight POoAB · 3 Buy ↗ 2012 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 POoCBH(B · 2 Buy ↗ 2012 Clive Barker�s Hellraiser Vol. 3 POoCBH(B · 3 Buy ↗ 2012 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 4 POoCBH(B · 4 Buy ↗ 2013 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 1 POoCBNTB · 1 Buy ↗ 2013 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 5 POoCBH(B · 5 Buy ↗ 2013 Clive Barker's First Tales POoSSC · 8 Buy ↗ 2014 Chiliad POoSSC · 9 Buy ↗ 2014 Tortured Souls POoSS · 14 Buy ↗ 2015 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 POoCBNTB · 2 Buy ↗ 2015 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 3 POoCBNTB · 3 Buy ↗ 2015 The Scarlet Gospels POoSSC · 10 Buy ↗ 2015 Tonight, Again POoSSC · 11 Buy ↗ 2017 The Magician POoPB · 2 Buy ↗ 2017 Infernal Parade POoSS · 15 Buy ↗ 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book(With: Roger Corman) POoGN · 2 Buy ↗ 2018 Hunters in the Snow POoPB · 3 Buy ↗ 2018 Crazyface POoPB · 4 Buy ↗ 2018 Clive Barker's the Body Book POoSSC · 12 Buy ↗ 2018 Hellraiser: The Toll POoSS · 16 Buy ↗ 2019 The Visitor(By: Chauncey G. Parker III) POoECB · 9 Buy ↗ 2021 Frankenstein in Love POoPB · 5 Buy ↗ 2021 Nightlives POoPB · 6 Buy ↗ 2024 The Nightmare Blonde(By: Morton Wolson) POoECB · 10 Buy ↗ 2024 Spook City(With: Ramsey Campbell,Peter Atkins,Doug Bradley,Angus MacKenzie) POoECB · 11 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of The Dark Descent Books 3 books · 1987–1991
01 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987 Buy ↗ 02 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990 Buy ↗ 03 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Graphic Novels 2 books · 2008–2018
01 Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) 2008 Buy ↗ 02 Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book(With: Roger Corman) 2018 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 7 books · 1985–2007
01 The Damnation Game 1985 Buy ↗ 04 The Thief of Always 1992 Buy ↗ 06 Coldheart Canyon 2001 Buy ↗ 07 Mister B. Gone 2007 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Imajica Books 3 books · 1991–1995
02 The Fifth Dominion 1995 Buy ↗ 03 The Reconciliation 1995 Buy ↗ Publication Order of P. Craig Russell Graphic Novels 2 books · 1992–2008
01 Murder Mysteries(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 1992 Buy ↗ 02 Coraline(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 2008 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Encyclopocalypse Classics Books 11 books · 1978–2024
01 The Odd Job(By: Bernard McKenna,Colin Bostock-Smith) 1978 Buy ↗ 02 Dracula in Love(By: John Shirley) 1979 Buy ↗ 03 Killer Flies(By: MarkKendall) 1983 Buy ↗ 04 In Darkness Waiting(By: John Shirley) 1988 Buy ↗ 05 The Rain Ghost(By: Garry Douglas Kilworth) 1990 Buy ↗ 06 Courage Under Fire(By: Patrick Sheane Duncan) 1996 Buy ↗ 07 A Private War(By: Patrick Sheane Duncan) 2002 Buy ↗ 08 Criminal Macabre(By: Steve Niles) 2007 Buy ↗ 09 The Visitor(By: Chauncey G. Parker III) 2019 Buy ↗ 10 The Nightmare Blonde(By: Morton Wolson) 2024 Buy ↗ 11 Spook City(With: Ramsey Campbell,Peter Atkins,Doug Bradley,Angus MacKenzie) 2024 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Abarat Books 3 books · 2002–2011
01 Abarat: The First Book of Hours 2002 Buy ↗ 02 Days of Magic, Nights of War 2004 Buy ↗ 03 Absolute Midnight 2011 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Clive Barker's Next Testament Books 3 books · 2013–2015
01 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 1 2013 Buy ↗ 02 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 2015 Buy ↗ 03 Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 3 2015 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Clive Barker's Book of the Damned Books 4 books · 1991–1993
01 Book of the Damned 1991 Buy ↗ 02 Book of the Damned II 1992 Buy ↗ 03 Book of the Damned III 1992 Buy ↗ 04 Book of the Damned IV 1993 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Mondo Books 4 books · 1993–1996
01 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 Buy ↗ 02 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 V�lez,Laura Kalpakian,Eri Makino,Ai,Michael Wilkerson,Brian Gilmore) 1994 Buy ↗ 03 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 Buy ↗ 04 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 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Galilee Books 1 book · 1998
Publication Order of Books of Blood Books 6 books · 1984–1985
01 Books of Blood, Vol. 1 1984 Buy ↗ 02 Books of Blood Volume 2 1984 Buy ↗ 03 Books Of Blood Volume 3 1984 Buy ↗ 04 Book Of Blood Volume 4 / The Inhuman Condition 1985 Buy ↗ 05 Book of Blood Volume 5 / In the Flesh 1985 Buy ↗ 06 Books of Blood Volume 6 1985 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Story Collections 12 books · 1984–2018
01 Books of Blood I-III 1984 Buy ↗ 02 Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6 1985 Buy ↗ 03 Tapping the Vein 1989 Buy ↗ 04 Lord of Illusions 1995 Buy ↗ 06 Forms of Heaven 1996 Buy ↗ 07 The Essential Clive Barker 1999 Buy ↗ 08 Clive Barker's First Tales 2013 Buy ↗ 10 The Scarlet Gospels 2015 Buy ↗ 11 Tonight, Again 2015 Buy ↗ 12 Clive Barker's the Body Book 2018 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) Books 5 books · 2011–2013
01 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1 2011 Buy ↗ 02 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 2012 Buy ↗ 03 Clive Barker�s Hellraiser Vol. 3 2012 Buy ↗ 04 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 4 2012 Buy ↗ 05 Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 5 2013 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 6 books · 1991–2008
01 Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden(With: Stephen Jones) 1991 Buy ↗ 02 Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror(With: Stephen Jones) 1997 Buy ↗ 04 The Hellraiser Chronicles(With: Stephen Jones) 2004 Buy ↗ 05 Visions of Heaven and Hell 2005 Buy ↗ 06 The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies 2008 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Book of the Art Books 2 books · 1989–1994
01 The Great and Secret Show 1989 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Playscripts Books 6 books · 1999–2021
01 The History of the Devil 1999 Buy ↗ 03 Hunters in the Snow 2018 Buy ↗ 05 Frankenstein in Love 2021 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Foundations of Fear Anthology Books 4 books · 1992–1994
01 An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(With: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Richard Matheson,Daphne du Maurier,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell) 1992 Buy ↗ 02 Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(By: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford) 1994 Buy ↗ 03 Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,David G. Hartwell,Thomas Hardy,Gertrude Atherton,Thomas M. Disch,Elizabeth Engstrom,Carlos Fuentes) 1994 Buy ↗ 04 Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear(With: David G. Hartwell,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Richard Matheson,Philip K. Dick,Octavia E. Butler,Gerald Durrell) 1994 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas 16 books · 1984–2018
01 Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament 1984 Buy ↗ 04 The Yattering And Jack 1984 Buy ↗ 05 In the Hills, the Cities 1984 Buy ↗ 06 The Last Illusion 1985 Buy ↗ 07 The Life of Death 1985 Buy ↗ 09 The Hellbound Heart 1986 Buy ↗ 10 The Nightbreed Chronicles 1989 Buy ↗ 11 Son of Celluloid 1991 Buy ↗ 13 The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus 2009 Buy ↗ 14 Tortured Souls 2014 Buy ↗ 15 Infernal Parade 2017 Buy ↗ 16 Hellraiser: The Toll 2018 Buy ↗