Mister B. Gone - Softcover

Barker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007276281 ISBN 13: 9780007276288

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2008

Synopsis

The long-awaited return of the great master of horror. Mister B. Gone is Barker's shockingly bone-chilling discovery of a never-before-published demonic ‘memoir’ penned in the year 1438, when it was printed – one copy only – and then buried until now by an assistant who worked for the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.

This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader―his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next―is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438.

The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.

A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.

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Review:

Praise for Clive Barker:

‘An invocation of both magic and the imagination... A majestic maze of mythmaking’
Washington Times

‘Passionate and ingenious... A ride with remarkable views’
Times Literary Supplement

‘A fabulous, engrossing war of the worlds’
People Magazine

‘Barker’s fecundity of invention is beyond praise. In a world of hard-bitten horror and originality, Clive Barker dislocates your mind’
Mail on Sunday

‘A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination... Clive Barker is an outstanding storyteller’
J G Ballard

From the Back Cover:

You hold in your hands not a book at all, but a terrifying embodiment of purest evil. Can you feel the electric tingle in your fingers as you are absorbed by the demon Jakabok's tale of his unintentional ascent from the depths of the Inferno? Do you sense the cold dread worming its way into your bloodstream, your sinews, the marrow of your bones as you read more deeply into his earthly education and unspeakable acts? The filth you now grasp has been waiting patiently for you for nearly six hundred years. And now, before you are completely in its thrall, you would do well to follow the foul creature's admonition and destroy this abomination of ink and paper before you turn a single leaf and are lost forever.

You have been warned.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007276281
• ISBN 13: 9780007276288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256