Zeffer is oddly beguiled by the room and, being a man used to buying what he wants, makes the monks an offer to purchase it, so as to give it as a gift to Katya. While visiting a fortress in Romania, a place inhabited by a group of monks, he is shown a special room that sits beneath the fortress - a large room in which the walls, ceiling and floor are covered with tiles, tiles which in total represent a pictorial representation of another strange appearing world. William Zeffer is the manager of Katya Lupi, a movie star in the era of Chaplin, of silent movies. Barker's Hollywood (based upon his experiences?) is as horrific as is the magical Devil's Country (which may very well be a metaphoric Hollywood, but that is a separate discussion).
It's safe to say, I think, that Clive Barker is neither enamored of the place nor many of the people who populate it. Barker also takes us into an additional world that most of us never truly enter, yet is not "invented" (at least not totally) by his imagination. That other world is often filled with wonders, raptures and yes, horrors.Ĭoldheart Canyon also introduces us to such a second invented world, a place called "The Devil's Country," and it is indeed that, a land filled primarily with evil horrors, more so than the mystical lands of his previous novels. Books such as Weaveworld, Imajica and Everville all speak of the existence of another world that exists (unseen to most) beside this one.
From that beginning he has since moved away from the horror genre and become an imaginative writer of "other words," a fabulist, as he has called himself, a writer of modern fables. Clive Barker gained his initial reputation (well-deserved) for his very imaginative horror stories.
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