Clive Barker.

[saskja]

I've merely glanced through these boards so far as i only joined a couple of days ago, but i just had to ask if anyone else here reads Clive Barker?

He's best known for the Hellraiser/Hellbound series, but also wrote Nightbreed, Cabal, The Great and Secret Show, Imajica and Weaveworld, which i've just re-read for about the fifth time and its still as excellent a piece as it was when i first read it back in the late '80's!

His work is a mixture of horror and fantasy, though i'd have to say that the Books of Blood are certainly not for the fainthearted!

anybody else a Barker fan?

[AJ]

Hi Saskja, I'm a Clive Barker fan too.

I've read The Books of Blood, Cabal, Weaveworld, The Hellbound Heart, The Great and Secret Show, Everville, The Thief of Always, Galilee. There may be a couple more too that I can't think of at the moment.

My favorite of his is Weaveworld, I've read it a few times now.

[Owen Watkin]

Clive Barker is a great author, Stephen king once said "I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker"

[atminotaur]

The books missing from the above lists are The Damnation Game, Arabat, Arabat: days of magic, nights of war, Cold Heart Canyon and Sacrement.

I've not Read Sacrement as I've not got it.

The Damnation Game is a book I like, about a guy calledMarty Strauss, who when leaving prision works for a rich and powerful person, and drawn into a fight between between his employer and the person who helped his employer rich.

Coldheart Canyon is pretty good also, about ghosts of Hollywood actors (albit mainly unknown hollywood actors)

The Arabat book are his latest ones and more children's books like A thief of Always, and is about a girl called Candy who's drawn into a world of islands where they represent the different hours of the day.