Clive Barker was born in Liverpool . Moreover, he graduated from the school where John Lennon studied. This involuntarily causes a comparison and obliges . to a lot. And if you're a writer, it's not enough to write a good book. It is absolutely necessary to write a book extraordinary, exceptional . So the hero of the novel, the artist Milage, who suddenly found the memory of his forgotten past, it seemed little to live eight normal lives of the famous magician Sartori .. And it seems that the author of “Imajika”, who became the winner of the international literary award “Horror”, coped with his difficult task. I will not say that nothing like this in the Russian language did not come out, but this two-volume, which appeared in 1995, definitely for many years to come became for domestic readers the most noticeable phenomenon in the genre of "dark fantasy". In this regard, Barker can be compared only with Stephen King, whose frankly teenage "Eyes of the Dragon" next to "Image" look rather dim, and "Dark Tower" still belongs to another subgenre of fiction.