Tumgik
#abarat
wyrmsfornerves · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Abarat sketches because I adored this series as a kid
90 notes · View notes
gwydpolls · 3 months
Text
Lucian's Library 6
Feel free to suggest never written books you wish you could read.
Some items suggested by impatient readers for still living authors.
55 notes · View notes
danidoesartforschool · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
book 3
ABSOLUTE MIDNIGHT
magic and chaos
34 notes · View notes
mercuryislove · 1 month
Text
Tumblr media
31 notes · View notes
variousqueerthings · 9 months
Text
clive barker: christopher carrion is a nasty looking man, he's a corpse-like creature with tubes sticking out of his head, nightmare goo swimming around his face, scarred lips, hairless pale weird pathetic fucking guy
me: ok ok he's hot I gotcha
63 notes · View notes
its-me-vixen · 8 months
Text
GRAIL FIND AT THE THRIFT BOOKSTORE
Tumblr media
Hardback baby!!! I refuse to let my partners read the paperback version of the first book I already have because Clive Barker's art is such an important part of the whole, having someone read it with just plain text feels like cutting off my arm and asking me to sign my name. I'm genuinely ecstatic, this is such a fantastic find!!
56 notes · View notes
j-hawthorn · 3 months
Text
Torturing myself by rereading the Abarat books by Clive Barker KNOWING IN MY BONES this series will never be finished
21 notes · View notes
ligbi · 8 months
Text
Tumblr media
44 notes · View notes
phyllidaluna · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media
Autism prince quivering and crying because he spilled his worms from quivering and crying
24 notes · View notes
deadbirdlife · 1 year
Text
Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
The sea is.
- Clive Barker (Abarat)
106 notes · View notes
skeppsbrott · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media
Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.
Clive Barker, Abarat
Ten years ago, I was in high school, doing an art-focused program. This was my response to the assignment of making a work of art based on a poem. I did not really engage with poetry at the time but I was a fan of Clive Barker's Abarat books, which featured poems he had written mostly within the universe of the story, including the first poem I ever memorised and also this one. I think it stuck with me for the easy structure, the sort of visual aspect of it.
Anyway, about a year ago, my basement was flooded. It happened while I was away and it was not discovered until many months of summer warmth had passed and things had started to get really nasty. That's the easy retelling; the full story is much more frustrating and infuriating. The end result remains the same - almost all of my art from 2018 and before was severely water damaged. I threw away what could not be saved and set myself to the exhausting task of drying out the remainder and beginning efforts to stabilise and sanitise it.
Most work from my high school years looks something like this. Usually worse. The pink and purple flecks are from pigment bleed of some printwork, the black is mostly mold. It was heartbreaking going through it all, so perhaps it is just the Stockholm syndrome speaking, but there is a sort of beauty in these stains.
I enjoy this work a lot. I look back at my teen self and think, man, you really did see something here. It is not the type of work I would do today - I have accepted that it is not my destiny to make the kind of clean and precise inkwork my teen self admired so much. But it is the type of work I still enjoy. I might frame it one of these days, but for now, I'll just leave it here on tumblr.
27 notes · View notes
electriccalypso · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
I adore clive barker, he's a massive artistic inspiration to me, so here's some of my favourite pieces by him.
97 notes · View notes
dead-mans-house · 9 months
Text
Candy and Carrion have their conversation about love in Tazmagor partway through Absolute Midnight
“Why can’t you let her go?” “Because if I did, I’d have no reason to live.” “Come on,” Candy said with a smile in her voice. “It can’t be that bad.” “Have you ever loved, then lost your beloved?” “No. I haven’t.” “Then let us remember to talk again, when things are different.”
I think most of us are assuming that something horrible is gonna happen with Gazza. Things are going to be such an insane mess if Carrion has to try to comfort Candy. This man CANNOT be trusted to give advice about romance and love.
24 notes · View notes
danidoesartforschool · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
book 2
DAYS OF MAGIC NIGHTS OF WAR
magic and chaos
8 notes · View notes
Text
Ok I finished Piranesi and it sparked the same kind of joy in me as when I first read Abarat so that is my rec to you--the plots are vastly different but it's about the joys and the wonders and the Vibes ok just trust me
18 notes · View notes
variousqueerthings · 9 months
Text
a very particular pain to getting into something and the majority of the fandom existed around 2014-15, and at that point were excitedly saying "wow, the next book is coming out, after so many years" and here we are, 8-9 years later and the next book has still not... come out... we will simply....... wait..........
36 notes · View notes