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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.
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.
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.
Clive Barker did not care for the nickname, believing it did not suit the dignity of the villain. [9] During filming of the first Hellraiser film, actor Doug Bradley discussed the character with Clive Barker. Both agreed, as the novella indicated, that Pinhead was once human, though when he had lived and died was undecided.
Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American neo-noir supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his own short story The Last Illusion published in 1985 in the anthology Books of Blood Volume 6. The same story introduced Barker's occult detective Harry D'Amour, who later appeared in several prose stories and comic books.
The Cenobites are fictional, extra-dimensional, and seemingly demonic beings who appear in the works of Clive Barker.Introduced in Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, they also appear in its sequel novel The Scarlet Gospels, the Hellraiser films, and in Hellraiser comic books published (intermittently) between 1987 and 2017.
The remains were confirmed to be those of Reginald “Reggie” Frisby, who was born in 1956 in New York state. Frisby’s remains were uncovered in June 1985 at a crime scene tied to notorious ...
The character originated in Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden", published in volume five of Barker's six-volume Books of Blood anthology collection. The story was partially inspired by a cautionary tale Barker's grandmother told him when he was six to teach him to be careful of strangers, about a hook-handed man who cut off a boy's genitals.