Games, Toys and Mazes

"Magic," says Gentle, "is the first and last religion of the world." A religion of which - may I add? - play is surely the profoundest ritual.' Introduction to 'Clive Barker's Imajica' by Clive Barker, 1997... Largely inspired by Barker's movie work, the spin-off gaming merchandise started with a humble, clip-together model Lament Configuration, but it, perhaps unsurprisingly, revealed itself to be a gateway to ever greater things. Model kits of the Cenobites sprang up, zombie-like, to answer the bidding of the box, and all Hell broke loose... With the birth of Nightbreed came the first successful computer games, followed by the only foray into games based on Barker's written work, the Imajica CCG. Together with the most recent amusements - Jericho and Tortured Souls - here is our take on ways to play with Barker... As with the bibliography section, your help is sought in sending missing images or for supplying information about all the things we've never heard of. Computer Games The first computer games in which players could experience life in a Barker-inspired world were the two Nightbreed games released in 1990. A couple of Hellraiser games were promised but never materialised (see our "other stuff that got away" section for Virtual Hell and Hellraiser) but it took until the new millennium for anyone to successfully add another computer game to the canon. Nightbreed: The Action Game Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie Hell On-Line Undying The Labyrinth of the Abarat Jericho Card Games For buying and selling? Or secretly hoarding? For framing and displaying? Or, dare we suggest it, actually playing?? Art Trading Cards Hellraiser Trading Cards Imajica Other Related Cards Board Games For a long time the Candyman game was the only entrant here, but 2002 sees a variation on a theme for Monopoly. Candyman Hellraiser Monopoly Pogs The attraction (and the rules) of the pogs phenomenon still leave us bemused... Pogs Models and Kits A number of websites have excellent presentations of the various Hellraiser models created under licence by Screamin' and by almost everyone else without a licence or official sanction... Garage kits abound, including models "inspired by" Hellraiser and Nightbeed characters. Of all the peripheral areas of fan activity, model-making appears to be the most creative, the most fertile and the most difficult to present any kind of comprehensive picture of. We recommend a trip to The Hellbound Web and The Clive Barker Collectibles Homepage sites via our Links page if you're looking for photos of the full range of what's been available to buy, build and collect. Rather than enter into the thankless task of putting together the definitive collection, we've concentrated on capturing our favourites, together with some thoughts of the sculptors and their subjects. Screamin' McFarlane Sideshow and the Nix Bust NECA Toys Garage Kits and Other Models Caricatures Plush Toys Alongside an appeal to the younger market of Abarat, the Jump Tribe have been created as an expanding range of plush toys. Art Asylum's Jump Tribe Mazes Often overlooked as a consequence of their single-location, here-today-gone-tomorrow staging, Barker has created Halloween Horror Nights attractions for Universal Studios on three separate occasions. Universal's Halloween Horror Nights mail us here...please! Home page | Links This page has been created for information and entertainment purposes only. All quotes remain the copyright of the original owners.