Coldheart Canyon Coldheart Canyon

Coldheart Canyon

    • 4.5 • 11 Ratings
    • £7.99
    • £7.99

Publisher Description

A famous Hollywood actor loses his looks – and is drawn into the dark and twisted world of Coldheart Canyon…

Following extensive cosmetic surgery, Hollywood superstar Todd Pickett needs somewhere to hide away while his scars heal. His manager finds the ideal location, Coldheart Canyon – a dream-palace hidden away in a corner of the city so secret it doesn’t even appear on a map.

In the 20s, ‘A’ list stars came to the Canyon to have the kind of parties nobody was supposed to know about. It wasn’t just the wild sex and the drugs that made Katya’s parties so memorable. There was a door in the bowels of the dream-palace, which reputedly opened onto another world – the Devils’ Country – where nothing was forbidden. Nothing.

With his refuge now a prison, Todd needs to get out of Coldheart Canyon. But to do that he must not only solve its mysteries but also face the powers that have protected it for seven decades, and that means stepping through the door…

As a Hollywood insider with a keen eye for its idiocies and horrors Clive Barker is uniquely positioned to write this vitriolic Tinseltown ghost story. Coldheart Canyon is an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Barker's books and films a worldwide phenomenon.

Reviews

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 dislocates your mind’
MAIL ON SUNDAY

About the author

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He is the worldwide bestselling author of the Books of Blood, and numerous novels including Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, Sacrament and Galilee. In addition to his work as a novelist and short sotry writer le also illustrates, writes, directs and produces for the stage and screen.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2008
4 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
672
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperVoyager
SIZE
1.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Lizzilobdob ,

Good book but def not for kids

Loved this but it needs re categorising as horror not children's fiction

Nomisbails ,

So so

By far the least favourite of Clive Barker books I have read. The idea seems good on the cover but when I started reading I just was not captivated like all the other books he has written. The plot was weak and it seemed as if he lost interest writing halfway through…..sadly so did I.

The Great and Secret Show The Great and Secret Show
2011
Everville Everville
2010
Fire in Summer Fire in Summer
2013
Of Words and Water: 2014 Of Words and Water: 2014
2014
Sleeping Beauties Sleeping Beauties
2017
The Best Short Stories 2023 The Best Short Stories 2023
2023
The Hellbound Heart The Hellbound Heart
2011
Imajica Imajica
2010
Weaveworld Weaveworld
2011
The Scarlet Gospels The Scarlet Gospels
2015
Books Of Blood Omnibus 1 Books Of Blood Omnibus 1
2010
The Great and Secret Show The Great and Secret Show
2011
Billy Summers Billy Summers
2021
Fairy Tale Fairy Tale
2022
Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
2018