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Win an original painting by Clive Barker!

To celebrate the publication of MISTER B. GONE you can enter to win an original Clive Barker painting entitled "The Man in the Copse" -- is oil on canvas and 24" by 24". The suggested retail value is over $2,500.00. No purchase necessary to enter. Head over to www.misterbgone.com for more information.

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Clive on Mister B. Gone

Mister B. Gone scares the bejesus out of people but it also entertains people and, I mean, you're in the company of this individual who is really the dark half of me and, you know, it's not a coincidence that I chose 'B' for his second name…

Jakobok Botch, also known as Mister B. Gone, is an egotist, all he wants to say is 'I suffer and now I'm going to tell you how I suffer and you're going to get me out of my suffering or pay the price'...

This guy is horribly, physically disfigured, I won't give you the circumstances of how. There isn't much of his conventional devilry left because, well, he's been in a very bad fire and I won't go any further than that, but it does leave him, you know, we're not talking about a sleek, slick demon here, we're talking about someone who could pass among human beings though he would be shunned: the way we would cross the road (I'm not saying we would… well, we might...) if he came towards us and his face had been burned off and he looked like he might have once been human, we'd certainly be a little anxious around him.

And Botch passes for human because he's burned…

The point is, I didn't want this to be a tale of a demon in Hell, I wanted this to be a tale of a demon amongst men and women, observing their ways, observing evil, observing human evil. I suppose I want to show as many ways that the demonic side of us manifests itself and so, towards the end he says, 'I'm giving you a treatise on evil here, I'm showing you all the ways that you use your powers against one another, in threats and seduction, physical threats sometimes, sometimes mental manipulation.'
 

I hope it's a very powerful narrative as a consequence because you can read it as being a story of the devil you don't want to know or you can actually decode it and find all kinds of other levels way below. I guess that's something that a lot of my books have, that sort of layering - you can read it one way or another, but this is particularly strong because he is a son of a bitch and you want to hate him, but I think it's hard to do so because so many of the things he feels we all feel or have felt - you know, rejected love..., so many of the things that make Carrion interesting to people...

I never ever lose fascination with villains and the idea of speaking an entire novel with the voice of a villain has been, I suppose, just a pleasure, a holiday!

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Order a Signed, Personalized Copy of Mister B. Gone

Signed, personalized copies of MISTER B. GONE are available upon request from A Different Light Bookstore. Click HERE to pre-order your copy. Please make the request in the "Special Instructions" box on the checkout screen of the site. A Different Light Bookstore ship regularly all over the world!

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Tour Dates Announced

10/27 – A Different Light Bookstore – West Hollywood, CA – 7:00pm

11/1 – Barnes & Noble Chelsea – New York, NY – 7:00pm

11/5 – Science Fiction Museum (sponsored by University Bookstore) – Seattle, WA – 5:00pm

11/6 – Third Place Books – Seattle, WA – 7:00pm

11/13 – Vroman's Bookstore – Los Angeles, CA – 7:00pm

11/15 – Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore – San Diego, CA – 6:30pm

12/1 – Dark Delicacies Bookstore – Burbank, CA

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Win a copy of Mister B. Gone from the Fantasy Book Critic

A great opportunity to win a copy of MISTER B. GONE has arisen over at The Fantasy Book Critic blog. Click HERE to enter.

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Updates on Mister B. Gone

Through the course of the summer and into the fall, HarperCollins will be sending updates, exclusive content, tour locations and more information on Mister B. Gone. Click HERE to ensure you're in the know.

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A NEW Novel - MISTER B. GONE

The rumors are true! HarperCollins will be publishing my new book MISTER B. GONE on October 30, 2007. MISTER B. GONE is a short horror novel - slightly longer than Thief, but intended for an adult readership – that tells of the discovery of a demonic 'memoir' penned in the year 1438. It consists of one copy only that has been buried by an assistant who worked for Johannes Gutenberg of printing press fame.

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