Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker

Coldheart Canyon

By Clive Barker

  • Release Date: 2009-03-17
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 46 Ratings

Description

“[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the farthest reaches of the imagination.” —Washington Post

From The Books of Blood to Hellraiser to Imajica, Abarat, and Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker’s extraordinary vision knows no bounds. With Coldheart Canyon, the New York Times bestselling master of dark fantasy who has been called “a cross between Stephen King and Gabriel Garcia Marquez” (Boston Herald) thrills readers with a “Hollywood ghost story” as audacious and chilling as anything he (or anyone else) has ever written.

Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood Hills. But the original owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden.

USA Today calls Barker's novel, “Endlessly entertaining…wickedly enjoyable,” and fans everywhere will agree—a tense and winding trip down into the hellish depths of Coldheart Canyon is well worth making.

Reviews

  • Clive Barker again show his mastery

    5
    By Néeirish
    Well written, erotic and frightening at the same time, this novel keeps you glued nonstop. I wished it never ended. Barker is amazing! Highly recommend.
  • Coldheart Canyon creepy and spellbinding

    5
    By gmsquires
    Purchased this book when it was first published, and met Clive and his partner at a book signing at Borders in SF. Clive is at his best with this ghost story melding old Hollywood with the present day, through a perpetually young Hollywood diva and her secret room in her old decaying Hollywood mansion. Ghosts of Hollywood's old stars and the forever young Hollywood diva remain through the power of the room, brought to this mansion from an old monastery in Europe in pieces and recreated along with it's evil power. It beguiles and threatens a young Hollywood action hero actor recuperating from a disastrous plastic surgery, and a star struck fan as they discover the hidden room, its purpose, the evil that inhabits it and can take their souls, and the beautiful former actress that still inhabits the mansion and her dark secret of eternal youth and energy. There was talk of the book becoming a movie, and I heard that Whoopie Goldberg wanted to play the part of the obsessed fan. It certainly deserves to become a movie, but I hope it isn't dumbed down to avoid a possible adult rating.
  • Clive Barker is one if the best!!!!

    5
    By MrNiteOwl
    I have this boom in paperback and read it when deployed. As a fan of Clive Barker; I find this book to be an open window to the creativity and twistedness of this man's genius and unique mind. I have recommended this book to many friends and now to many iPad iBook readers.