Incarnations In Colossus, the subject is the great Spanish painter Goya. Deluging us with an overpowering stream
of stage pictures, Barker evokes a world where love, art, cannibalism, and sudden redemption are interwoven. In Frankenstein in Love, Barker's homage to Mary Shelley's masterpiece
and the shockingly graphic tradition of Grand Guignol theatre, we are invited to a wedding the likes of which the world has never seen. Dim the lights. Raise the curtains. The stage is set for three journeys into the
dark heart of the imagination.
There has never been a storyteller
quite like Clive Barker: an erudite classicist who has created some of the most potent cinematic nightmares of
our time; a prolific bestseller who combines a contemporary sensibility with the literary elegance of an earlier
age; a confirmed populist whose obsessions first surfaced in paintings and works for the theatre. Here, published
for the first time, are three of those dramas. Intensely readable and characteristically outrageous, they present
us with vital and compelling portraits of unforgettable characters: among them, the revolutionary painter Goya,
the Frankenstein monster as never glimpsed before, and the Prince of Darkness--the
Devil himself.
For readers already familiar with Barker's dark, passionate vision, these plays are invitations to a new kind of
reading experience. For those who have not shared his world, they will be a revelation.
In this extraordinary trio of plays the same unique imagination that created Everville,
Imajica, Hellraiser, Weaveworld, Candyman, The Thief of Always, and the Books of Blood is a world bringing wild new worlds to life.
Created as epic spectacles for the stage, these immensely readable dramas burst
with extraordinary characters, apocalyptic images and violent, often erotic, encounters.
In The
History of The Devil, Lucifer
himself is brought to trial and, clue by clue, we piece together the mystery of Evil Incarnate.
 Incarnations: Three PlaysPaperback, 384pp. ISBN: 0061053295 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated Pub. Date: February 1998 |
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 History of the Devil [UNABRIDGED]Audio Cassette / Dove Books Audio Publication dateApril 1999 |
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