Clive Barker
born Liverpool, England: 5 October 1952
Clive Barker is an English author, film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playwright, painter, illustrator, game producer, and visual artist. He writes books, and short stories, plays and comic books within the horror and fantasy genres. His fiction has been adapted into films, some of which he wrote and directed himself.
He first came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, collected in the Books of Blood 1-6 and the novel The Damnation Game (1985). He combined modern-day fantasy and urban fantasy with elements of horror in his novels, Weaveworld (1987), The Great and Secret Show (1989), Imajica (1991) and Sacrament (1996).
His novella The Hellbound Heart (1986) was the basis for the film Hellraiser (1987) and his short story The Forbidden, from his Books of Blood, provided the basis for the film Candyman (1992) and its three sequels.
The Hellraiser film achieved a cult status, has turned into a multimedia franchise. Although Barker lost control over it, he managed to regain control since 2020.
His works have themes of despair and suffering, and feature worlds hidden within alternate dimensions our own. They have heavily flawed protagonists, who often suffer physical transformations, and they often express feminist and environmental views.
As a visual artist, he often illustrates his own books.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Clive Barker
Wikipedia page: Clive Barker - Wikipedia
born Liverpool, England: 5 October 1952
Clive Barker is an English author, film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playwright, painter, illustrator, game producer, and visual artist. He writes books, and short stories, plays and comic books within the horror and fantasy genres. His fiction has been adapted into films, some of which he wrote and directed himself.
He first came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, collected in the Books of Blood 1-6 and the novel The Damnation Game (1985). He combined modern-day fantasy and urban fantasy with elements of horror in his novels, Weaveworld (1987), The Great and Secret Show (1989), Imajica (1991) and Sacrament (1996).
His novella The Hellbound Heart (1986) was the basis for the film Hellraiser (1987) and his short story The Forbidden, from his Books of Blood, provided the basis for the film Candyman (1992) and its three sequels.
The Hellraiser film achieved a cult status, has turned into a multimedia franchise. Although Barker lost control over it, he managed to regain control since 2020.
His works have themes of despair and suffering, and feature worlds hidden within alternate dimensions our own. They have heavily flawed protagonists, who often suffer physical transformations, and they often express feminist and environmental views.
As a visual artist, he often illustrates his own books.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Clive Barker
Wikipedia page: Clive Barker - Wikipedia
