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Ranking Author Clive Barker’s Best Books (A Bibliography Countdown)

“What are Clive Barker’s Best Books?” We looked at all of Barker’s authored bibliography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the books written by Clive Barker and looked at their Goodreads, Amazon, and LibraryThing scores, ranking them against one another to see which books came out on top. The books are ranked in our list below based on which titles have the highest overall score between all 3 review sites in comparison with all of the other books by the same author. The process isn’t super scientific and in reality, most books aren’t “better” than other books as much as they are just different. That being said, we do enjoy seeing where our favorites landed, and if you aren’t familiar with the author at all, the rankings can help you see what books might be best to start with.

The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!



The Top Book’s Of Clive Barker



78 ) Scarebaby

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 76
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


77 ) Hellraiser: The Toll

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 73
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


76 ) Gaslight and Ghosts

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 75
  • Amazon: 50
  • LibraryThing: 72


75 ) The Unexplained

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 64
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


74 ) Night Screams

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 61
  • Amazon: 55
  • LibraryThing: 71


73 ) Tonight, Again

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 67
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 62


72 ) Mister B. Gone

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 72
  • Amazon: 41
  • LibraryThing: 67


71 ) The Giant Book of Terror

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 76
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 43


69 ) Tortured Souls

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 63
  • Amazon: 41
  • LibraryThing: 66


69 ) The Scarlet Gospels

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 66
  • Amazon: 44
  • LibraryThing: 60


68 ) Space Movies

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 74
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 62


67 ) Night Visions

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 45
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 65


66 ) Millennium

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 50
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 59


65 ) Revelations

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 57
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 49


63 ) The Mammoth Book of Vampires

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 55
  • Amazon: 41
  • LibraryThing: 61


63 ) The Mammoth Book of Terror

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 62
  • Amazon: 48
  • LibraryThing: 47


62 ) Infernal Parade

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 70
  • Amazon: 46
  • LibraryThing: 37


61 ) The Life of Death

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 58
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 37


60 ) Hunters in the Snow

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 22
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


59 ) Sacrament

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 56
  • Amazon: 37
  • LibraryThing: 53


58 ) Forms of Heaven

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 53
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 37


57 ) Dark Terrors 2

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 71
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 15


56 ) Cutting Edge

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 76
  • Amazon: 49
  • LibraryThing: 15


55 ) Cold Heart Canyon

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 59
  • Amazon: 29
  • LibraryThing: 51


54 ) Galilee

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 54
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 53


53 ) To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…Nightmare

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 26
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 55


52 ) Everville

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 34
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 45


51 ) Chiliad

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 52
  • Amazon: 14
  • LibraryThing: 68


50 ) The Last Illusion

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 9
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 68


49 ) Night Visions Hardshell

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 39
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 37


48 ) Visions of Fear

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 6
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 68


46 ) Crazyface

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 1
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


46 ) Clive Barker’s The Body Book

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 1
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 72


45 ) The Damnation Game

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 48
  • Amazon: 29
  • LibraryThing: 51


44 ) Books of Blood Volume 4

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 38
  • Amazon: 39
  • LibraryThing: 43


42 ) The Reel Stuff

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 43
  • Amazon: 14
  • LibraryThing: 62


42 ) The History of the Devil

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 64
  • Amazon: 54
  • LibraryThing: 1


41 ) The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 50
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 41


40 ) Lord of Illusions

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 48
  • Amazon: 7
  • LibraryThing: 58


39 ) The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 5
  • Amazon: 50
  • LibraryThing: 55


38 ) The Hellraiser Chronicles

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 17
  • Amazon: 37
  • LibraryThing: 55


37 ) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 35
  • Amazon: 39
  • LibraryThing: 34


36 ) Books of Blood Volume 2

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 25
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 26


35 ) Splatterpunks II

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 43
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 32


34 ) Prime Evil

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 36
  • Amazon: 19
  • LibraryThing: 50


33 ) Books of Blood Volume 5

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 36
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 45


32 ) Vintage Science Fiction

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 67
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 5


30 ) Rare Flesh

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 30
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 15


30 ) Cabal

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 41
  • Amazon: 19
  • LibraryThing: 41


29 ) The Essential Clive Barker

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 20
  • Amazon: 46
  • LibraryThing: 34


28 ) Incarnations

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 46
  • Amazon: 5
  • LibraryThing: 47


27 ) Dread

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 31
  • Amazon: 50
  • LibraryThing: 9


26 ) Dancing with the Dark

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 67
  • Amazon: 7
  • LibraryThing: 15


25 ) The Fifth Dominion

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 10
  • Amazon: 44
  • LibraryThing: 29


23 ) Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 31
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 27


23 ) Little Deaths

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 47
  • Amazon: 7
  • LibraryThing: 27


22 ) Demons and Deviants

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 22
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 2


21 ) Rawhead Rex

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 41
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 7


20 ) The Hellbound Heart

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 33
  • Amazon: 14
  • LibraryThing: 30


19 ) Clive Barker’s Tapping the Vein

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 40
  • Amazon: 11
  • LibraryThing: 24


18 ) Abarat

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 26
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 22


17 ) Absolute Midnight

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 28
  • Amazon: 19
  • LibraryThing: 20


15 ) Clive Barker

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 28
  • Amazon: 7
  • LibraryThing: 30


15 ) Best New Horror 4

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 60
  • Amazon: 1
  • LibraryThing: 4


13 ) The Magician

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 3
  • Amazon: 56
  • LibraryThing: 5


13 ) Books of Blood Volume 3

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 16
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 25


12 ) The Great and Secret Show

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 10
  • Amazon: 50
  • LibraryThing: 3


11 ) The Yattering and Jack

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 14
  • Amazon: 31
  • LibraryThing: 15


10 ) Weaveworld

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 24
  • Amazon: 11
  • LibraryThing: 23


9 ) Books of Blood Volume 1

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 8
  • Amazon: 11
  • LibraryThing: 34


8 ) Imajica

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 20
  • Amazon: 14
  • LibraryThing: 12


7 ) Books of Blood Volume 6

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 10
  • Amazon: 1
  • LibraryThing: 33


6 ) The Thief of Always

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 15
  • Amazon: 14
  • LibraryThing: 14


5 ) Days of Magic, Nights of War

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 13
  • Amazon: 19
  • LibraryThing: 10


4 ) Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 7
  • Amazon: 23
  • LibraryThing: 7


3 ) Clive Barker Omnibus

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 17
  • Amazon: 6
  • LibraryThing: 13


2 ) Silver Scream

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 17
  • Amazon: 1
  • LibraryThing: 11


1 ) The Reconciliation

Review Website Ranks:

  • Goodreads: 4
  • Amazon: 1
  • LibraryThing: 20


Clive Barker’s Best Books



Clive Barker Review Website Bibliography Rankings

BookGoodreadsAmazonLibraryThingOveral Rank
The Reconciliation 4 1 20 1
Silver Scream 17 1 11 2
Clive Barker Omnibus 17 6 13 3
Clive Barker Visions of Heaven and Hell 7 23 7 4
Days of Magic, Nights of War 13 19 10 5
The Thief of Always 15 14 14 6
Books of Blood Volume 6 10 1 33 7
Imajica 20 14 12 8
Books of Blood Volume 1 8 11 34 9
Weaveworld 24 11 23 10
The Yattering and Jack 14 31 15 11
The Great and Secret Show 10 50 3 12
The Magician 3 56 5 13
Books of Blood Volume 3 16 23 25 13
Clive Barker 28 7 30 15
Best New Horror 4 60 1 4 15
Absolute Midnight 28 19 20 17
Abarat 26 23 22 18
Clive Barker’s Tapping the Vein 40 11 24 19
The Hellbound Heart 33 14 30 20
Rawhead Rex 41 31 7 21
Demons and Deviants 22 56 2 22
Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror 31 23 27 23
Little Deaths 47 7 27 23
The Fifth Dominion 10 44 29 25
Dancing with the Dark 67 7 15 26
Dread 31 50 9 27
Incarnations 46 5 47 28
The Essential Clive Barker 20 46 34 29
Rare Flesh 30 56 15 30
Cabal 41 19 41 30
Vintage Science Fiction 67 31 5 32
Books of Blood Volume 5 36 23 45 33
Prime Evil 36 19 50 34
Splatterpunks II 43 31 32 35
Books of Blood Volume 2 25 56 26 36
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection 35 39 34 37
The Hellraiser Chronicles 17 37 55 38
The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies 5 50 55 39
Lord of Illusions 48 7 58 40
The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus 50 23 41 41
The Reel Stuff 43 14 62 42
The History of the Devil 64 54 1 42
Books of Blood Volume 4 38 39 43 44
The Damnation Game 48 29 51 45
Crazyface 1 56 72 46
Clive Barker’s The Body Book 1 56 72 46
Visions of Fear 6 56 68 48
Night Visions Hardshell 39 56 37 49
The Last Illusion 9 56 68 50
Chiliad 52 14 68 51
Everville 34 56 45 52
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…Nightmare 26 56 55 53
Galilee 54 31 53 54
Cold Heart Canyon 59 29 51 55
Cutting Edge 76 49 15 56
Dark Terrors 2 71 56 15 57
Forms of Heaven 53 56 37 58
Sacrament 56 37 53 59
Hunters in the Snow 22 56 72 60
The Life of Death 58 56 37 61
Infernal Parade 70 46 37 62
The Mammoth Book of Vampires 55 41 61 63
The Mammoth Book of Terror 62 48 47 63
Revelations 57 56 49 65
Millennium 50 56 59 66
Night Visions 45 56 65 67
Space Movies 74 31 62 68
Tortured Souls 63 41 66 69
The Scarlet Gospels 66 44 60 69
The Giant Book of Terror 76 56 43 71
Mister B. Gone 72 41 67 72
Tonight, Again 67 56 62 73
Night Screams 61 55 71 74
The Unexplained 64 56 72 75
Gaslight and Ghosts 75 50 72 76
Hellraiser: The Toll 73 56 72 77
Scarebaby 76 56 72 78
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