The remaining four Dominions are ruled by the Autarch who live within the city of Yzordderrex in the Second Dominion. Many years ago, the Dominion of Earth was separated from the other Dominions of the Imajica. The Imajica as a whole is overseen by a God known as the Unbeheld Hapexamendios. Our planet is just one of five Dominions, collectively known as the ‘Imajica’.
These furious levels of output meant that the whole novel was completed within the space of just fourteen months from the time the author first put pen to paper, until the moment it was finally submitted to his publisher.Ī collectable card game was later released by Harper Prism in August 1997 that was inspired by the story. And once he began the novel, the writing consumed him to such a degree whereby he was writing up to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for the entirety of the writing process. The ideas behind the story apparently came to Barker within a number of dreams.
The novel was later re-released in two parts by HarperTorch in 1995, predominantly due to the sheer length of the tale. They are worlds that are utterly unlike our own, but are ruled, peopled, and haunted by species whose lives are intricately connected with ours.Īs Gentle, Judith, and Pie 'oh' pah travel the Imajica, they uncover a trail of crimes and intimate betrayals, leading them to a revelation so startling that it changes reality forever.Ĭlive Barker is an English playwright, novelist, film director, and visual artist best known for the Books of Blood short stories, The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser), Cabal (Nightbreed), and the young adult fantasy series the Books of Abarat.First published back in October of 1991, Clive Barker’s epic fantasy novel ‘Imajica’ was the author ’s first novel to be more fantasy orientated than that of horror.
That dimension is one of five in the great system called Imajica.
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution.Īt its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension. From master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passion-complete with new illustrations and a new Appendix.
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