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There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life’s ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of his own design, Joseph Whitehead has hell to pay. And no soul is safe from this ravaging fear, the resurrected fury, the unspeakable desire of...
- Sales Rank: #66601 in Books
- Brand: Barker, Clive
- Published on: 2002-11-05
- Released on: 2002-11-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.88" h x .98" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
- ISBN13: 9780425188934
- Condition: USED - Very Good
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From Library Journal
"I have seen the future of the horror genre, and his name is Clive Barker," Stephen King has written. Fortunately, this first novel (Barker has published short story collections) more than bears the weight of King's praise. Barker is a better writer than King, and his characters are just as interesting. Set in modern Britain, the story thrusts a flawed "innocent"parolee Marty Straussinto an epic conflict between wealthy Joseph Whitehead and Mamoulian the Cardplayer, a centuries-old creature with whom Whitehead had struck a bargain to obtain his wealth and power. Whitehead reneges, and the resulting struggle is played out primarily on his fortress-like estate. Barker's excellent writing makes the graphic, grotesque imagery endemic to current horror fiction very effective. Highly recommended anywhere horror fiction is popular. A.J. Wright, Anesthesiology Dept., Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
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Review
“A deliciously scary tale...Barker’s brilliantly literary work has raised horror to a level of excellence it has rarely reached before.” —Whitley Streiber
“One of the best horror novels in a very long time...do not miss it!” —USA Today
“Original and memorable...engrossing...disturbing...Horror mavens who enjoy violence and harrowing imagery will find plenty of both here. But there is more to The Damnation Game than gore. This story of a supernaturally powerful man who can resurrect the dead probes the many varieties of corruption.” —Publishers Weekly
“Remarkably powerful...Barker has created a truly legendary monster. In pure descriptive power there is no one writing horror fiction now who can match him.”—The Washington Post
“Wonderful, moving and apocalyptic. Death and damnation hang at the end of every chapter. Barker makes us squirm.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Will fry your eyes off! Keep the lights on.” —Larry King
“A masterly novel...a thrill a minute.” —Chicago Sun-Times
“A tour de force of gruesome supernatural horror...startling, hard-hitting, graphic...brilliantly executed.” —Fantasy Review
“A horrifying thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A gripping tale of hideous evil.” —New York Daily News
“Will hold you in its spell. Barker has a keen knack for ripping the skin off every detail and exposing the horrors lurking just below the surface...Captivating and original.” —South Herald Tribune
“Shattering...A full scale, hair-raising assault on the imagination.” —Anniston Star
“A writer of stunning imagination...With his artist’s eye for detail, Barker instills a mythic quality into his vision of hell.” —The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
“The most literate and disturbing horror novel I have ever read. This is the place that nightmares are spawned—read it at your own peril, but read it you must!”—
Imagine
“A powerful, thrilling novel that provokes the imagination and raises the blood pressure.” —The Orlando Sentinel
“Frightening...Scalpel-clean prose and wild inventiveness.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Powerful...original...Barker’s horror is elegant enough that one can admire it as a kind of hellish choreography, with the characters all dancing to his phantasmagorical tune.” —New York Newsday
About the Author
Born in Liverpool in 1952, Clive Barker has written and produced a number of Grand Guignol plays, including The History of the Devil and Frankenstein in Love. His volumes of short fiction, Books of Blood, earned him immediate praise from horror fans and literary critics alike. He won both the British and World Fantasy Awards, and was nominated for the coveted Booker Prize, Britain’s highest literary award. His bestselling novels include The Damnation Game, Imajica, The Thief of Always, The Great and Secret Show, and Everville. He also created the now-classic Hellraiser films, as well as Nightbreed, and Lord of Illusions.
Most helpful customer reviews
65 of 70 people found the following review helpful.
Slaps the reader with an unclean hand
By Chris W.
One thing is always true about Clive Barker's novels: He will disturb you.
"The Damnation Game" was my first experience with Barker, and is the first I've decided to read again. The surreal horrors conjured within these pages leaves me breathless. This novel delivers all the terror and stomach-turning prose that made Clive famous. The usual glurge from Stephen King about Barker being "the future of horror" adorns the cover, and King is right on the mark. However, be warned that Barker is NOT the future Stephen King; Barker is too unique to be sold as a contemporary author.
This novel features four key characters, and a wide assortment of supporting cast members. We have Mamoulian, also known as the Last European, the central antagonist of this tale. Also enter Joseph Whitehead, the thief, whom we come to know as the wealthy gambler / businessman who acquired his fortune through his MISfortune of dealing with a devil, aka Mamoulian. Martin Strauss, a convict who is living out his parole status on the Whitehead estate, is the newly acquired bodyguard of Whitehead. He is the lead in this tale, and the most likeable character out of a cast of unlikables. Carys, Whitehead's daughter, also lives on the estate, supplied with a never ending stock of heroin to keep her "happy" in Whitehead's home.
Mamoulian and Whitehead are old friends... or at least there is honor among these two thieves. Mamoulian is an ages-old gambler, and with a deal of the cards has ensnared Whitehead's soul. Whitehead has been enormously successful over the years since his deal with Mamoulian, but now it is time to settle old debts. Strauss is there for Whitehead's protection, but Strauss is revealed to be a gambler in his own right...
Barker makes readers squirm. There is a point in horror where most authors would stop, letting the reader's imagination decide how graphic the terror might be. Barker does not stop. His descriptions of grotesqueries and revolting behavior are unmatched, even among the "new school" of gross-out horror writers. Clive is poetic in his dismembering of mind and body. Clive is capable of making the most innocent aside comment seem like it moves mountains of flesh. The hideous deeds of Mamoulian and his unnatural employee Breer leap off the page and slap the reader with an unclean hand. Barker knows fear and loathing better than most.
"The Damnation Game" is very creepy to say the least. Many scenes are calculated for maximum emotional impact upon the reader, even those scenes which don't evoke any horror per se. Most people are brought up to refrain from speaking about certain things (taboos), yet Barker kicks that door aside so brutally and consistently that I can't help but be amazed.
This novel is a bit flawed, but the "flaws" play a significant part in the enjoyable experience of this book. Barker, I am convinced, does not share the same realities as the rest of humanity. Barker seems to effortlessly rip away the fabric of reality (most notably in "The Great and Secret Show"), and can throw the reader into a spiral of the bizarre. In "The Damnation Game", Barker uses his slithering imagination to explain the origins of Mamoulian and his supernatural skill for human suffering, but his explanations miss the mark; we do not get a clear picture of what the ancient Mamoulian really is. Terror of the unknown is a long-accepted practice among horror novelists, but since Barker attempted an explanation, the "terror of the unknown" factor gets thrown out the window. What we are left with is an unsatisfactory origin of Mamoulian, forcing me to reduce my overall rating of this book. Barker's anti-reality tendencies come home to roost; since he seems unable to perceive reality as most do, internal cohesion within his stories sometimes suffers. That is the case here.
Even without the origins of Mamoulian, I am left awestruck at the manner in which Barker verbally terrorized me. Some people have called Clive poetic in his debauchery; I am inclined to agree with them. This book is not for the faint of heart, but rewards your vigilance should you choose to continue your journey into darkness
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
One of Clive's best....
By A Customer
To say that this book is good would be a terrible understatement to not only Clive Barker,but also to the Horror genre in the world today. The Damnation Game combines all the elements of a great story: Horror (Vile, Stomach-turning details), Passion, Disturbing visions, Fantasy, and most important, Imagination. I've been a Clive Barker fan for a little over a year, reading The Books of Blood, Sacrament, Galilee, The Great and Secret Show, and The Inhuman Condition, and with the exception of The Books of Blood, I think that this is one of his greatest books to date. Barker's imagery and details were so concrete..so real that I would shiver and sometimes have to stop reading for a minute or two so I could try to banish that certain vision or image from my thoughts. But, all along, the story was interesting, and very compelling to read. This book will have you at the edge of your seat, wondering what will happen next, and who these people really are...and you won't be disappointed.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Clive Barker explores the idea that there are things worse than death
By Lawrance Bernabo
Like many people I checked out Clive Barker because Stephen King had said "I have seen the future of the horror genre, and its is named Clive Barker." That was a good enough recommendation for me, and I picked up "The Damnation Game," which was Barker's first novel. Part One of the novel, "Terra Incognita," takes place in the ruined city of Warsaw during World War II where a thief dares to challenge Mamoulian the Cardplayer, the dark champion of life's darkest and most game. Apparently the game went well for the nameless thief, for when we jump to the "present" in Part Two, "Asylum," we meet millionaire Joseph Whitehead, one of the richest men in Europe, who is now locked up in the fortress he has built himself. Paroled from prison, Marty Strauss becomes Whitehead's bodyguard. Down on his luck for so long that he thinks things are finally breaking his way, but Marty has no idea what he has signed on for with this job. The final key member of the cast is Carys Whitehead, a heroin addict who cares about nothing but staying high and letting daddy foot the bill.
We understand that Whitehead is going to have to pay the piper for his wealth and power, and he has every reason to be terrified of what is going to happen to him when Mamoulian settles all accounts on behalf of his employer. Of course now we can see some foreshadowing of "Hellraiser" in the idea of playing a deadly game, but it would be a mistake to think we are talking about pro-Cenobites in "The Damnation Game." Besides, Marty has more going for him than simply the luck of being the narrative's hero, and that becomes part of the book's final equation. However, ultimately the plot of "The Damnation Game" is simply the framework for Barker to explore the darkest parts of his imagination and whip up memorable little vignettes to keep you up half the night. Your ability to stomach these scenes is going to be key to how much you appreciate this novel ("enjoy" would most definitely be the wrong word in this instance). Fortunately I read fast enough that I did not have a chance to wallow in the really dark parts, but when things get ugly in this book they get really ugly.
Beyond that there are a couple of distancing factors at work in Barker's writing, both of which are made clear in comparison to the works of Stephen King. First, Barker is a better writer in terms of the elegance of his prose, so there he dresses up his horror in much prettier language. Second, King's genius is that he puts his horrors in the every day world in which we live, while Barker has such a fertile imagination that he ended up writing novels that qualify more as fantasy than as horror. Actually, I can add a third point of contrast in that in that with King it is the idea of the story and with Barker it is more the execution of the tale, so to speak. That is why it is so much easier to describe a King novel (e.g., little girl can start fires and the government wants her as a super weapon, possessed car kills people) than a Barker novel (pick a book, any book). In the end I round up on this one because it made such a big impact on me and because it got me hooked on Barker. Given what follows there are few who would consider "The Damnation Game" to be a first-rate Barker novel, but the first descent into the lower depths of hell tends to stick with you. This one certainly did.
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