First published back in 1987, the novel has remained one of the most talked about of Barker's books to date. It is a book of dark fantasy that leaves you breathless after each page. The novel will grip you from the start and keep you desperate to keep reading. He takes you on a trip of the magical and macabre and celebrates the potential of the human imagination. His writing style engrosses the reader deep within the pages, immersing you into a dark and wonderful land of the unbelievable. In the course of the novel the rug is unwoven, and we travel deep into the glorious raptures of the Weaveworld before we witness the final, cataclysmic struggle for its possession'.īarker lets loose his imagination as he takes you on an unforgettable trip to fantastic and incredible worlds of pure fantasy. Vying for possession of the rug is a spectrum of unforgettable characters: Suzanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, who feels the pull of the Weaveworld long before she knows the extent of her own powers Calhoun Mooney, a pigeon-raising clerk who finds the world he's always dreamed of in a fleeting glimpse of the rug Immacolata, an exiled Seerkind witch intent on destroying her race even if it means calling back the Scourge and her sidekick, Shadwell, the Salesman, who will sell the Weaveworld to the highest bidder. The last of the caretakers has just died. Since then, the rug has been guarded by human caretakers.

In the last century, they were hunted down by an unspeakable horror known as the Scourge, and, threatened with annihilation, they worked their strongest raptures to weave themselves and their culture into a rug for safekeeping. It is the world of the Seerkind, a people more ancient than man, who possess raptures - the power to make magic. 'Weaveworld begins with a rug, a wondrous, magnificent rug into which a world has been woven.

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