Clive Barker

by Winter, Douglas E.

• ISBN13: 9780066213927
• ISBN10: 0066213924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-02
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Clive Barker: a modern myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears, the writer who -- more than any other contemporary figure -- has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, artist and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic, frightening and ultimately meaningful. Douglas E. Winter's detailed and highly literate biography, made possible by unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, offers readers a privileged insight into Barker's own story: his Liverpool childhood and adolescence; his forays into the world of theatre, mime and direction; his meteoric rise to fame as the author of the Books of Blood and Weaveworld, and the director of Hellraiser ; his move to Hollywood to pursue a film career and his growth as an artist in many different media, which has taken him from theatre -- the first form of human expression -- into the digital age. Interwoven with this revealing and personal journey into Barker's life is a grand tour through all of his fiction and film, from his earliest unpublished work -- including the short story "The Wood on the Hill," which is published here for the first time -- up to his most recent novel, Coldheart Canyon and beyond, giving a tantalising glimpse of things to come. Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic unlocks the beating heart of a polymath, a creator, a true artist, and reveals at last a man with one of the twentieth century's most phenomenal imaginations, and the vision to lead us on many strange and fabulous journeys in the years ahead.

Author Biography

Douglas E. Winter has been hailed as "the conscience of horror and dark fantasy." His books include the critically acclaimed novel Run; the anthologies Prime Evil and Revelations; and the authorized biography Stephen King: The Heart of Darkness. An attorney with the internationally based law firm Bryan Cave LLP, Mr. Winter is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
The Pool of Life	p. 1
Oakdale Road	p. 10
In a Lonely Place	p. 26
Quarry Bank	p. 39
The Company of Dreamers	p. 54
Hydra Rising	p. 64
London Calling	p. 88
Dog Days	p. 113
The Play's the Thing	p. 128
After the Danse	p. 144
First Blood	p. 157
Nowhere Land	p. 172
The New Flesh	p. 188
Into the Abyss	p. 206
Raw Celluloid	p. 218
Secret Lives	p. 230
Hellbound	p. 246
Raising Hell	p. 258
Filigree and Shadow	p. 275
A Breed Apart	p. 291
God's Monkey	p. 304
The Bastard Child	p. 317
And Death Shall Have No Dominion	p. 329
The Serpent's Tail	p. 343
Forbidden Candy	p. 362
Finding a Religion	p. 380
Love and the Devil	p. 395
Extinction	p. 411
Ancient of Days	p. 424
Redemption	p. 443
Of Gods and Monsters	p. 454
Stories of Our Own	p. 466
For Ever More	p. 486
'The Wood on the Hill'	p. 503
Notes	p. 514
Primary Bibliography	p. 556
Secondary Bibliography	p. 606
Resources	p. 645
Index	p. 647
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