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The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

A wager with consequences beyond death

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    New York Times bestseller

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A wager with consequences beyond death

The description links a postwar challenge to a later reckoning: Joseph Whitehead, once daring enough to face a shadowy champion in a game over life itself, is now a millionaire shut away in a fortress of his own making. That structure gives the novel’s horror premise a focus on the costs of an earlier bargain, with the threat reaching beyond Whitehead to those around him. The supplied description emphasizes supernatural danger, temptation, and fear, while leaving the rules of the game and the nature of its champion largely mysterious.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in horror rooted in supernatural bargains and peril.
  • Readers who enjoy suspense premises involving a past challenge returning to threaten others.
  • Those drawn to postwar settings and isolated, fortress-like locations in horror fiction.

Themes

Temptation and dangerous wagersConsequences of past choicesSupernatural threatIsolation and fear

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Book overview

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"ONE OF THE BEST HORROR NOVELS IN A VERY LONG TIME...do not miss it!"--USA Today

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life's ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of his own design, Joseph Whitehead has hell to pay. And no soul is safe from this ravaging fear, the resurrected fury, the unspeakable desire of...

THE DAMNATION GAME
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