Of course, there are some parts that are problematic but overall, it’s still an excellent book. It’s still a great story with magical people and places, scary villains, and ordinary heroes who become extraordinary and give us hope.
I’ve been meaning to read the book again for quite some time, because I was curious how it would stand up after all these years. When I graduated from my MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at Seton Hill University, an old friend sent me a signed copy to celebrate my achievement. It still speaks to me today for those same reasons. A hidden world of magical people who have to hide to keep themselves safe because of their differences spoke volumes to me as a teenager of mixed ethnicity growing up in rural Pennsylvania. Clive Barker is best known for his horror fiction, and while there are horrific scenes in Weaveworld, this novel is more in tune with portal fantasy. I used to listen to that book over and over, and it deepened my understanding of how scary stories should be told. I think I still have the cassettes somewhere. At the time, a friend of mine volunteered at our local library and wanted to impress me, so he snagged an audio copy of The Damnation Game.
I think it was the third Clive Barker book I read, with The Damnation Game being the first. I first read Weaveworld in high school in 1988.
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