And with that it might have been better, or it might've not. Another writer would've made this into a trilogy. On the other, it is a story that could've done with some stretching out, some more buildup and a higher page count. On the one hand it's very good, incredibly imaginative and horrifying, which is what you would expect from a Barker story. Weaveworld is my first novel-length brush with Clive Barker's writings and it's a bit of an odd one. All thoughts of the supernatural and the strange shoved aside in the path of her pragmatism.īut, when at her grandmother's hospital bed, she is shown a vision in her mind's eye,she finds the old truth returning that the world is less clear cut than she wanted to believe.įollowing up on the glimpse of magic she returns to her grandmother's house and there meets up with Cal, and together they take a stand against the forces of darkness that wish to use the carpet's mysteries for their own, nefarious ends. All the troubles of childhood, all the innocence lost. Suzanna has done her best to put the past behind her. Unable to get the carpet out of his head he goes back to the look for it.īut he soon finds that others are also looking for the carpet and for all the secrets that it hides, and that in a world where there is room for wonders, there is also ample place for horror. It is a vision that, in the days after, leaves him shaken, disturbed, and profoundly changed. It's a sight that takes him back to the innocence of his youth, to the time when magic was still possible. In a moment of terror and exaltation he catches a glimpse of a world of wonder before it submerges again in an old, fraying carpet. While chasing his escaped prize-winning pigeon through the streets of Liverpool, Cal Mooney stumbles on the miraculous.

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