"Renaissance man" is a tag often associated with Clive Barker, and for good reason. Since exploding into the publishing scene in the mid-1980s with six volumes of horror short stories known as the "Bo...
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Clive Barker was born on 5 October 1952 in Liverpool, England. His father, Len Barker, was in industrial relations; his mother, Joan Barker, was a teacher, and both were amateur artists. As a schoolbo...
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In the following essay, Badley analyzes Barker's Books of Blood, his films, and his other literary work.
With Books of Blood, an obscure playwright and illustrator named Clive Barker launche...
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In the following excerpt, Dziemianowicz treats Barker's Books of Blood as a forerunner of the splatterpunk horror fiction movement in the late 1980s.
Clive Barker, Splatterpunk, and the New D...
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In the following review, Morrison explores thematic and stylistic aspects of the short stories in the first three Books of Blood.
In 1984, Sphere Books unleashed upon the unsuspecting world Clive B...
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In the following review of the third Books of Blood, Keis observes that Barker is an innovative writer in the horror genre, and that Barker's stories appeal to those who are prepared for the bl...
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In the following review of the compilation The Books of Blood, the critic asserts that Barker is a major innovator in modern horror fiction.
Sixteen of the 17 stories in this book [The Books of Blo...
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In the following review of The Books of Blood, Anderson observes that Barker's effective mingling of the realms of life and death in his short stories uplifts the horror genre.
Just when you...
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In the following review, Morrison provides a generally favorable assessment of Barker's first three Books of Blood.
The publication of this massive collection of well-crafted, original, dist...
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In the following review of Books of Blood, Volumes 4–6, Morgan describes Barker as a highly talented yet inconsistent writer.
Clive Barker is a young English writer who produces horror novel...
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In the following review, Meeks asserts that the stories in the first Books of Blood are neither original nor frightening.
At rush hour, it always seems like there's at least one person in ev...
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In the following review, D'Ammassa maintains that the five stories included in the second volume of the Books of Blood are of uniformly high quality.
Clive Barker has been widely touted as t...
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On Monday, Nov. 28, the government of Canada “fell” and Michael Ignatieff—the Harvard professor of human-rights policy, intellectual supporter of the war in Iraq and contributor o...
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On Monday, Nov. 28, the government of Canada “fell” and Michael Ignatieff—the Harvard professor of human-rights policy, intellectual supporter of the war in Iraq and contributor ...
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A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation, by Catherine Crier. ReganBooks, 480 pages, $27.95.Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson, by Amber Frey. ReganBooks, 214...
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Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Critical Essay by Linda Badley
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