The mixed, tricky world where fantasy and horror overlap has been visited before - though not very often - and "Weaveworld" will be a guide to everyone who travels there in the futureĪ powerfully imagined, fully executed fantasy. "Weaveworld" is pure dazzle, pure storytelling. Prodigious talent.Barker creates a fantastic romance of magic and promise that is at once popular fiction and utopian conjuring.īarker puts in strands of Joyce, Poe, Tolkien, and King himself, and emerges with the one ingredient that all good rugmakers and storytellers have in common: an irresistible yarn. Synopsis: Susanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, Calhoun Mooney, and Immacolata, an exiled witch intent on destroying her race, vie for a rug into which the world of Seerkind has been woven
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