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 🇺🇸
2	Days of Magic, Nights of War 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Absolute Midnight 2011Buy 🇺🇸

59 books (1986–2024)

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

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

2 books (1989–1994)

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

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

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Book of the Damned II 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Book of the Damned III 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Book of the Damned IV 1993Buy 🇺🇸

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.

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 3 2015Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸

1 book (1998–1998)

#	Title
1	Galilee 1998Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸
2	Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book(With: Roger Corman) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–1995)

Start with Imajica and read in order.

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

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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Age of Desire(With: P. Craig Russell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Coraline(By: Neil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸
2	The Magician 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crazyface 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hunters in the Snow 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	Frankenstein in Love 2021Buy 🇺🇸
6	Nightlives 2021Buy 🇺🇸

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

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Weaveworld 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cabal 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Thief of Always 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sacrament 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Coldheart Canyon 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mister B. Gone 2007Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸
2	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸