Clive Barker Reading Order

3 books (2002–2011)

Start with Abarat: The First Book of Hours and read in order.

#	Title
1	Abarat: The First Book of Hours 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Days of Magic, Nights of War 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Absolute Midnight 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

61 books (1986–2024)

Start with Cutting Edge, the first of 59 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Cutting Edge 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Dark Descent 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Horror Factor 7 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Best New Horror 4 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Splatterpunks II 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Sea-Cursed 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Giant Book of Terror 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Mammoth Book of Erotica 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Mondo Marilyn 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Space Movies 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Dark Terrors 2 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Giant Book of Fantasy Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Millenium 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Secret City 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Dark Detectives 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Dark Delicacies 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Dark Delicacies II: Fear 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Living Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The New Weird 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Hellbound Hearts 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	The Dead That Walk 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Mister October, Volume II 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Shivers VII 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Turn Down the Lights 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Best New Horror 25 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Horrorology 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Detours 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Gutted 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Where Nightmares Come From 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Behind the Mask - Tales from the Id 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Spook City 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1989–1994)

Start with The Great and Secret Show and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Great and Secret Show 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Everville 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1984–1985)

Start with Books Of Blood Volume 3, the first of 6 books in the Books of Blood series.

#	Title
1	Books Of Blood Volume 3 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Books of Blood Volume 2 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Books of Blood, Vol. 1 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Book Of Blood Volume 4 / The Inhuman Condition 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Book of Blood Volume 5 / In the Flesh 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Books of Blood Volume 6 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1991–1993)

Start with Book of the Damned, the first of 4 books in the Clive Barker's Book of the Damned series.

#	Title
1	Book of the Damned 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Book of the Damned II 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Book of the Damned III 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Book of the Damned IV 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2011–2013)

Start with Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1, the first of 5 books in the Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) series.

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1	Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 4 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 3 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 5 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2013–2015)

Start with Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 1 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 3 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1978–2024)

Start with The Odd Job(By: Bernard McKenna,Colin Bostock-Smith), the first of 11 books in the Encyclopocalypse Classics series.

4 books (1992–1994)

Start with 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), the first of 4 books in the Foundations of Fear Anthology series.

#	Title
1	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) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	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) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	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) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	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) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1998–1998)

#	Title
1	Galilee 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2008–2018)

Start with Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book(With: Roger Corman) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1991–1995)

Start with Imajica and read in order.

#	Title
1	Imajica 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Fifth Dominion 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Reconciliation 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1993–1996)

Start with 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), the first of 4 books in the Mondo series.

#	Title
1	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) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	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 Vélez,Laura Kalpakian,Eri Makino,Ai,Michael Wilkerson,Brian Gilmore) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	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) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	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) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1991–2008)

Start with Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden(With: Stephen Jones), the first of 6 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden(With: Stephen Jones) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror(With: Stephen Jones) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Rare Flesh 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Hellraiser Chronicles(With: Stephen Jones) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Visions of Heaven and Hell 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1992–2008)

Start with Murder Mysteries(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Murder Mysteries(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Coraline(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1999–2021)

Start with The History of the Devil, the first of 6 books in the Playscripts series.

#	Title
1	The History of the Devil 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Magician 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Crazyface 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Hunters in the Snow 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Frankenstein in Love 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Nightlives 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2018–2018)

16 books (1984–2018)

Start with Dread, the first of 16 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dread 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	In the Hills, the Cities 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Rawhead Rex 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Yattering And Jack 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Forbidden 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Last Illusion 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Life of Death 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Hellbound Heart 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Nightbreed Chronicles 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Son of Celluloid 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Haeckel\'s 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Tortured Souls 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Infernal Parade 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Hellraiser: The Toll 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (1984–2018)

Start with Books of Blood I-III, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Books of Blood I-III 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tapping the Vein 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Incarnations 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Lord of Illusions 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Forms of Heaven 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Essential Clive Barker 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Clive Barker's First Tales 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Chiliad 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Scarlet Gospels 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Tonight, Again 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Clive Barker's the Body Book 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1985–2007)

Start with The Damnation Game, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Damnation Game 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Weaveworld 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Cabal 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Thief of Always 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sacrament 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Coldheart Canyon 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Mister B. Gone 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1987–1991)

Start with Volume I: The Color of Evil and read in order.

#	Title
1	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible