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The erotic elements are wonderfully done, and since I started reading his work, I've found myself quite drawn to the world of erotic horror. |
Tirades
|| Censorship || Body
Modification || Pals || Halloween
|| Music || Links ||
BiPride || Voodoo
|| Literacy || Poetry
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If you couldn't already tell, Clive's a bit of a hero for me. I remember reading the books of blood when I was a teenager. I had been a collector and avid reader of Fangoria magazine back when I was younger, and I always loved grotesque imagery. Needless to say, my mother thought I was a bit of a wacko, not to mention the rest of the people around me... Whenever I read any of Clive's work, I become completely engrossed in the book...so much so, that I usually lose sleep until I finish. He's completely mesmerizing in his character creation and imagery. |
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Aside from writing, Clive is also an accomplished artist. Clive Barker Illustrator proves this point most remarkably. If you want to see the original covers for his Books of Blood series originally released in England, check this book out. It's amazing. It's also full of original concept drawings for the Cenobite creatures, and other ghoulish things that twist and turn their way through his fertile imagination. I'm fortunate enough to have found signed copies of the Books of Blood orignal cover art...*sigh* It makes me all warm and tingly just thinking about it.... There are a lot of gaps, but that's mostly due to the fact that I've read so damn much that I've sorta forgotten some of the stories. I'm going to read the books again and give reviews as I finish them, so keep comin' back to watch the updates as they happen. |
| Imagica is my absolute favorite book of his. It was the hardest book to put down. I read the entire book in about 3 days of straight reading/eating/sleeping. Whatta marathon. He creates an amazingly real fantasyworld, with very likeable characters. There's lots of strangeness and insanity, but I like to think of this book as a really odd grotesque love story. Others, of course, would call me insane... |
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The Great and Secret Show It's been a looong time since I read this book. I remember liking it immensely, along with it's counterpart Everville.
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From the cover of Everville: On a mountain peak, high abouve the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that lets onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity. And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact... |
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Phoebe Cobb, once a doctor's receptionist is about to forget her old life and go looking for her lost lover, Joe Flicker, in the world on the other side of that door, a strange, sensual wonderland the likes of which only Clive Barker could make real. Tesla Bombeck, who knows what horrors lurk on the far side of Quiddity, must solve the mysteries of the city's past if she is to keep those horrors from crossing the threshold. Harry D.Amour, who has tracked the ultimate evil across America, will find it conjuring atrocities in the sunlit streets of Everville. These are but a few of the hugely entertaining characters whose destinies Barker has charted in this book. Enthralling, chilling, and charged with an unbridled eroticism, Everville is above all a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart. For love. For hope. For understanding. And of course it's about the forces that threaten those dreams. The monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces... Cabal is just one of the stories in this book of the same name, within are contained four other short stories: |
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Cabal - This
is another of Clive's stories that was put on the big screen. Only this
time they called it Nightbreed. Again, big letdown...The movie was wonderful
in it's own right, but the book was much more rich in it's emotional
tapestry. It's the sad tale of the citizens of Midian. Different in
their ways and appearances, the humans that cross their paths are easily
frightened and quick to judge and kill. This is probably my second favorite
story Clive's written. |
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The book that was the inspiration for the movie Hellraiser, The Hellbound Heart is a wonderful read. As you would suspect, the book goes into more detail, even though it is a pretty quick read. It's a small pamphlet sized book compared to his others, but it's still quite a fine read. |
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From the back cover: In Weaveworld, a prosaic Liverpool clerk named Calhoun Mooney falls into a magic carpet. He has entered the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a people with the power to make magic - or to destroy humanity... |
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From the back cover: In the depths of an abandoned steam bath, strangely beautiful women seduce two businessment into a ritual of macabre sexuality; in a Greek asylum, wise men race frogs to decide the fate of the world; a petty convict's cellmate reveals to him the gruesome birth of evil; a young womans slum research leads her into the hook-handed grip of The Candyman, a vicious supernatural killer. |
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The Books of Blood were my first experience reading Clive Barker, and I must say it was quite a foray into the realm of horror. I've been a fan of his writings ever since. I believe these volumes came out originally in England with art that Clive himself had done. I'm working on getting copies of the original books with his cover art for this page, but it might take some time. I've got signed prints of the originals used for the covers in storage. |
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Forbidden In the Flesh The Forbidden The Madonna Babel's Children |
The Forbidden
was released theatrically as The Candyman, and it also spawned sequels,
that I have yet to watch, so I can't really comment on whether they
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Clive Barker Books that I've not reveiewed yet:
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How Spoilers
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The
Books of Blood
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The Inhuman
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