


Our planet is just one of five Dominions, collectively known as the ‘Imajica’. These furious levels of output meant that the whole novel was completed within the space of just fourteen months from the time the author first put pen to paper, until the moment it was finally submitted to his publisher.Ī collectable card game was later released by Harper Prism in August 1997 that was inspired by the story. And once he began the novel, the writing consumed him to such a degree whereby he was writing up to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for the entirety of the writing process.

The ideas behind the story apparently came to Barker within a number of dreams. The novel was later re-released in two parts by HarperTorch in 1995, predominantly due to the sheer length of the tale. First published back in October of 1991, Clive Barker’s epic fantasy novel ‘Imajica’ was the author ’s first novel to be more fantasy orientated than that of horror.
