Agent Mulder: Anthony Gluck, a character briefly introduced in the middle of the book, catalogues unexplained phenomena in England but ascribes them to extraterrestrials.

While Calhoun Mooney is more unusual, it doesn't remotely compare to the sort of names the Seerkind have - such as Jerichau St.

Aerith and Bob: Suzanna Parrish is a very commonplace name.How fine it would be to walk there, he thought, with so much variety pressed into so little space, not knowing whether the turning the next corner would bring ice or fire.To be there, in that world, would be to live a perpetual adventure. Adventure-Friendly World: Invoked by Cal the very first moment he sets eyes on the Fugue.There has been a slow trickle of news about potential screen adaptations for decades, but as yet nothing has progressed beyond the planning stage. The story was adapted as a graphic novel under the Epic Comics label in 1991.

At that point, a story full of wonders and terrors begins.Ĭlive Barker's second full-length novel, and his first novel that could more easily be classified as Urban Fantasy than Horror. But the first to find the Fugue is ordinary young professional Calhoun Mooney, who sees in it the Wonderland he's dreamed of since childhood. Called to the Fugue's defence is Suzanna Parrish, the granddaughter of the last Custodian, even though she is entirely ignorant of magic and the Seerkind. They left the Fugue in the hands of sympathetic human Custodians to protect it until the world is safe for the Seerkind again.īut now it is the 1980s, and the last of the Custodians is on her deathbed.Įnemies of the Fugue have nearly located it - the exiled Seerkind witch Immacolata and her undead sisters the Magdalene and the Hag want to destroy the Fugue, and they enlist a human accomplice, Shadwell the Salesman, to aid them. In desperation, they used thier magic to weave themselves and their places of power into a tapestry in order to elude the Scourge. This carpet, called the Fugue, is the refuge of the Seerkind, a Mage Species that was was nearly wiped out in the late 19th century by an unstoppable force known to them as the Scourge.

Weaveworld is a story about a carpet which contains a world.

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