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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 It includes reviews, essays and introductions written by Barker with new artwork and some previously unpublished material.
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.
Coldheart Canyon is a novel by Clive Barker, published in 2001 by HarperCollins. The paperback edition was published by HarperTorch on November 5, 2002 ( ISBN 006103018X ). The story centers on Todd Pickett, a failing movie star, and Tammy Lauper, Todd's obsessive fan.
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 ...
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 ...
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