Clive Barker was born in Liverpool. Moreover, he graduated from the school where John Lennon studied. This involuntarily provokes comparison and obliges us to do a lot. And if you are a writer, it’s not enough to just write a good book. It is absolutely necessary to write an extraordinary, exceptional book. So for the hero of the novel, the artist Milaga, who suddenly acquired the memory of his forgotten past, it began to seem not enough for him to live eight normal lives as the famous magician Sartori. And I think that the author of “Imagika”, who became a laureate of the international literary award “Horror”, coped with his difficult task.