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Clive Barker Books in Order

Find every Clive Barker book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 100 books / 19 series

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 Clive Barker Books in Chronological Order

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 Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament POoSS / 1 Buy
1984 Books of Blood, Vol. 1 POoBoBB / 1 Buy
1984 Books of Blood I-III POoSSC / 1 Buy
1984 Books of Blood Volume 2 POoBoBB / 2 Buy
1984 Dread POoSS / 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 Cabal POoSN / 3 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 Book of the Damned POoCBBotDB / 1 Buy
1991 Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden(With: Stephen Jones) POoNB / 1 Buy
1991 Imajica POoIB / 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 Everville POoBotAB / 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 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 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

Clive Barker Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

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
Graphic Books in Reading Order 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
Standalone Books in Reading Order 7 books / 1985-2007
01 The Damnation Game 1985 Buy
02 Weaveworld 1987 Buy
03 Cabal 1988 Buy
04 The Thief of Always 1992 Buy
05 Sacrament 1996 Buy
06 Coldheart Canyon 2001 Buy
07 Mister B. Gone 2007 Buy
Imajica Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1991-1995
01 Imajica 1991 Buy
02 The Fifth Dominion 1995 Buy
03 The Reconciliation 1995 Buy
01 Murder Mysteries(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 1992 Buy
02 Coraline(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 2008 Buy
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
Abarat Books in Reading Order 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
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
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
Mondo Books in Reading Order 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
01 Galilee 1998 Buy
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
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
05 Incarnations 1995 Buy
06 Forms of Heaven 1996 Buy
07 The Essential Clive Barker 1999 Buy
08 Clive Barker's First Tales 2013 Buy
09 Chiliad 2014 Buy
10 The Scarlet Gospels 2015 Buy
11 Tonight, Again 2015 Buy
12 Clive Barker's the Body Book 2018 Buy
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
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
03 Rare Flesh 2003 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
01 The Great and Secret Show 1989 Buy
02 Everville 1994 Buy
01 The History of the Devil 1999 Buy
02 The Magician 2017 Buy
03 Hunters in the Snow 2018 Buy
04 Crazyface 2018 Buy
05 Frankenstein in Love 2021 Buy
06 Nightlives 2021 Buy
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
01 Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament 1984 Buy
02 Dread 1984 Buy
03 Rawhead Rex 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
08 The Forbidden 1985 Buy
09 The Hellbound Heart 1986 Buy
10 The Nightbreed Chronicles 1989 Buy
11 Son of Celluloid 1991 Buy
12 Haeckel\'s 2005 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

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