   weaveworld is a novel by clive barker. it was published in 1987 and could be categorised as dark fantasy. it deals with a parallel world, like many of barker's novels, and contains many horror elements. it was nominated in 1988 for the world fantasy award for best novel. ==plot summary== the novel, set in liverpool, england in the late 1980s, revolves around the secret existence of the seerkind - a race of people with the capacity to invoke magic, or "raptures" as it is described and their struggles to remain hidden from the non magical world which they refer to as "the kingdom of the cuckoo". many decades prior to the book's opening the seerkind combined all of their powers to create a secret world known as "the fugue" - a carpet into which they wove their most beloved locations, animals, possessions and indeed themselves as a safe haven after being hunted down and eradicated by humans for centuries (with humans most commonly depicting them as demons and fairies in their mythological tales) as well as being decimated by a destructive being known as the scourge. this creature's form is entirely unknown to the seerkind, given that none of those assaulted by the scourge survived to describe it. the fugue, resembling an ordinary, albeit exquisitely woven carpet is left in the care of a normal cuckoo woman, married to one of seerkind named mimi laschenski. as the story begins mimi has reached advanced old age and been hospitalized following a stroke whilst concurrently the novel's protagonist - a young liverpudlian man named calhoun mooney chases one of his father's escaped pet homing pigeons which leads him unknowingly to mimi's house. in her absence the house is being cleared by removal men and whilst attempting to coax his pigeon down cal is given an aerial view of the laid out carpet and glimpses the full magical splendour of the fugue which profoundly effects him. simultaneously the novel's deuteragonist, mimi's granddaughter suzanna parrish arrives in the city at mimi's behest. the mystery surrounding mimi and the full potential of the carpet brings cal and suzanna together and quickly into confrontation with the primary antagonists; immacolata - an exiled and extremely powerful seerkind bent on revenge, shadwell - a cuckoo salesman with limitless ambition and hobart, a rigidly dedicated to the point of corrupt police
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