Clive barker

While his most well-known projects are his horror novels and short stories, Clive Barker has a long career as painter that will be surveyed in his new exhibition, "1977," opening tomorrow night, August 23, at Century Guild in Culver City. The interdisciplinary artist — whose biggest credits include having his novels adapted for the Hellraiser and Candyman film series — will be showing a series of paintings he created in 1977 when he was 24 years old, as well as new works from this year…

Clive Barker and Stephen King on the set of Sleepwalkers.

Oh, there should have been so many more pictures like this.

Clive Barker’s Books of Blood are six volumes of absolute horror. Sure, a few have more of a dark humor to them, but many are absolutely terrifying. We’ve had some good film and TV adaptations of his works (“Midnight Meat Train,” “Dread”), some mediocre ones (“The Yattering and Jack,” “The Skins of the Fathers”) and some […]

David Cronenberg and Clive Barker

JOHN RHEAUME (American, 20th Century) Clive Barker's Book of the Damned II - A Hellraiser Companion cover, (Epic - Available at 2012 June 27-28 Illustration...

Clive Barker Art is always inspiring art

Spread the love Another Episode gone by, this time we discuss Books of Blood Volume 4 with Jose, Ryan, and Jonathan Kui (whom we talked to from the road). We kept the running time down a little, so give us a listen!...READ MORE...

The Tunnel, Clive Barker

Volume 3 contains the stories “Son of Celluloid,” “Rawhead Rex,” “Confession of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud,” “Scape-Goats,” “Human Remains.” Barker himself adapted "Rawhead Rex" into a movie in 1986. A particularly nasty demon is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rawhead Rex's rampage through the Irish countryside while a man struggles to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSLX1IDR1d8 The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections…