![]() ![]() The result was an adaptation of his story The Hellbound Heart - a film called Hellraiser. ![]() He was highly dissatisfied with both of them, and decided to direct something himself. Moderately successful in Great Britain, the Books found wide critical acclaim in the United States, and now appear in over a dozen languages.īy 1987, two of Barker’s stories had been adapted into movies - Rawhead Rex and Underworld. However, the first publisher he showed it to asked for more, and his stories were published in three volumes in 1984, under the title, The Books of Blood. In his spare time, Barker wrote short horror fiction, not expecting to be able to sell it. Many of his plays have been collected in two books, Incarnations and Forms of Heaven. These plays often delved into the erotic, the fantastical, and the horrific, themes that he would later become known for in his literary work. He started out writing and directing plays for a fringe theater company he formed in London, producing works such as “Frankenstein in Love,” “The History of the Devil,” and “Colossus,” a play about his favorite painter, Goya. He first realized he could scare people with his words telling stories around a campfire with fellow Boy Scouts when he was ten years old. “I have seen the future of horror and its name is Clive Barker.”Ĭlive Barker, writer, producer, novelist, director, and playwright, was born by Cesarean section at 1:00 am on October 5, 1952, near Penny Lane, Liverpool. ![]()
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