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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.
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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 It includes reviews, essays and introductions written by Barker with new artwork and some previously unpublished material.
Book of Blood is the seventh story to be adapted from Barker's collection, following Rawhead Rex (filmed in 1986), The Forbidden (filmed in 1992 as Candyman), The Last Illusion (filmed in 1995 as Lord of Illusions), The Body Politic (filmed in 1997 within Quicksilver Highway), and The Midnight Meat Train.
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Candy Quackenbush is a teenage girl who is the main character in The Books of Abarat (2002–2011), and is partially based on Barker's former stepdaughter Nicole. [1] The heroine of the series, she is a sixteen-year-old misfit (notably with heterochromia ; her left eye is brown, while the right is blue) from Chickentown, a small township ...
When Barker didn't know where to take the short story, it was suggested by his collaborators that the plot tie into the events of The Scarlet Gospels. After considering how to do it, Clive Barker's collaborator and author Mark Alan Miller reverse engineered the story into the novella Hellraiser: The Toll to be published by Subterranean Press. [5]
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