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Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, filmmaker and visual artist. He came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood , which established him as a leading horror writer.
First edition. The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies is a collection of Clive Barker's non-fiction work, published in 2011. It includes reviews, essays and introductions written by Barker with new artwork and some previously unpublished material.
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Clive Barker's tagline for Books of Blood was: "Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." The opening story, "The Book of Blood", introduces the premise of the anthology series by revealing that a fake psychic is attacked one night by genuine ghosts and spirits who decide to make him a true messenger by writing stories into his flesh.
In 2013, small press publisher Fiddleblack released an "annotated, limited edition" of the novella, titled Cabal & Other Annotations.The hand-numbered books were limited to a run of 300 and contained a collection of essays from Barker-centric contributors such as Peter H. Gilmore and Nicholas Vince, as well as artwork by Barker himself and a sizable appendix of scholarly footnotes by horror ...
A Jammbonian illness. Symptoms include a pitched-up voice, itchy spots, increased body weight, and a fever so high it causes one to walk on the walls. The only cure is a spoonful of terrible-tasting medicine. Johnny-itis Johnny Test ("Johnny-itis") A condition caused by drinking an unnamed fictional substance only described as "an unstable ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... The Damnation Game is a 1985 horror novel by English writer Clive Barker. It was Barker's ...
The Hellbound Heart is a horror novella by Clive Barker, first published in November 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume of its Night Visions anthology series. [1] The story features a hedonist criminal acquiring a mystical puzzle box, the LeMarchand Configuration, which can be used to summon the Cenobites, demonic beings who do not distinguish between pain and pleasure.