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Stephen King says: "I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker."

Another author I have listed among my top fav horror writers.

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.

What are some of your favorite books by this author Debra????

The Great and Secret Show and its sequel
Everville are my favorites. I also really liked:
Coldheart Canyon
Sacrament
The Thief of Always: A Fable (a young adult novel)

I know I've read more of his books, but it was so long ago I feel I need to re-read them to be fair with my ratings.

Thanks for asking, Linda!

Debra wrote: "The Great and Secret Show and its sequel
Everville are my favorites. I also really liked:
Coldheart Canyon
Sacrament
[book:The Thief of Alwa..."

thanks for that information Debra, maybe I will pick something up by Clive Barker, I have known that he is Stephen Kings favorite authors for a long time, but for some reason, Ijust never picked up anything by him.

You can't really go wrong with Barker. His earlier stuff is more horrific then his later stuff, but all of it is excellent writing.

Bibliography:

Novels

(1985) The Damnation Game
(1986) The Hellbound Heart
(1987) Weaveworld
(1988) Cabal
(1989) The Great and Secret Show (first "Book of the Art")
(1991) Imajica
(1992) The Thief of Always
(1994) Everville (second "Book of the Art")
(1996) Sacrament
(1998) Galilee
(2001) Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story
(2001) Tortured Souls (novelette)
(2002) Abarat (first book of the Abarat Quintet)
(2004) Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (second book of the Abarat Quintet)
(2007) Mister B. Gone
(2009) Mr. Maximillian Bacchus And His Travelling Circus (limited run by Bad Moon Books)
(2011) The Candle in the Cloud (limited run by Bad Moon Books)
(2011) Absolute Midnight (third book of the Abarat Quintet)
(?) The Scarlet Gospels ( featuring the characters and universe that first appeared in The Hellbound Heart centering on the character of Pinhead and Harry D'Amour, from The Last Illusion, The Great and Secret Show, Everville and the film Lord of Illusions.
(?) Abarat: The Dynasty of Dreamers (The fourth book of the Abarat Quintet)

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(1984�1985) Books of Blood (vols. 1 through 6 were released between 1984 and 1985. vols. 4 through 6 were published in the U.S. as The Inhuman Condition (volume 4), In the Flesh (volume 5), and Cabal (volume 6, though the title novella is original to this edition and replaces one of the volume's stories).)
(1985) Cabal (titular novella was also published as a Nightbreed mass market paperback)
(1987) The Inhuman Condition
(1987) In the Flesh
(1990) Clive Barker, Illustrator
(1992) Illustrator II: The Art of Clive Barker
(1995) Incarnations: Three Plays
(1996) Forms of Heaven: Three Plays
(2000) The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction
(2005) Visions of Heaven and Hell
(2011) Black Is the Devil's Rainbow: Tales of a Journeyman

Biographies

(1991) Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden A collection of essays written by multiple authors and friends of Barker's discussing production on his movies and interspersed with early sketches and drawings, along with snippets from various interviews. Edited by Stephen Jones. Introduction by Stephen King.
(2002) Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic by Douglas E. Winter
(2009) Memory, Prophecy and Fantasy: The World and Works of Clive Barker � Volume 1. A retrospective look at the background to Barker's published work from his earliest creative years. It includes many otherwise unpublished texts, artwork and photographic pieces alongside a detailed study of his fringe theatre work, written by Phil and Sarah Stokes who run his official website, Revelations.
(2010) Memory, Prophecy and Fantasy: The World and Works of Clive Barker � Volume 2. A second volume of the retrospective study of Barker's work again includes many otherwise unpublished texts and artwork from direct access to Barker's archives, written by Phil and Sarah Stokes.

Nonfiction

(2011) The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies: Essays by Clive Barker Collection of Barker's essays and non-fiction writing. According to the Revelations website, the collection includes "introductions to both his own work and the works of others, newspaper and magazine articles, tributes and appreciations and other contributions to books". Published through Earthling Publications in October 2011.
(2011) Beneath The Surface of Clive Barker's Abarat Companion volume to Barker's Abarat series. Published in 2011, the volume illustrates Barker's working methods, preliminary sketches, artwork and drafts and includes an extended interview with Barker by Abarat readers in an Alaskan school.[20]

I found this on Barker's Facebook page. It's refreshing to read the admiration and appreciation that Barker has for King's help in kick-starting his career.

"When my English publishers put out my first stories, The Books of Blood, they were greeted with a very English silence. Polite and devastating. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t this smothering shrug. And then, a voice. Not just any voice. The voice of Stephen King, who had made people all around the world fall in love with having the shit scared out of them. He said, God bless him, that I was the future of horror. Me! An unknown author of some books of short stories that nobody was buying. Suddenly, there is a phantom present in that chair. Stephen had no reason to say what he said, except pure generosity of spirit. The same generosity he has shown over the years to many authors. A few words from Stephen, and lives are changed forever. Mine was. I felt a wonderful burden laid upon my shoulders; I had been seen, and called by name, and my life would never be the same again. So, may I take opportunity to thank Stephen King; on my own behalf, certainly, and behalf of all the other authors whose futures have been transformed by him. I have a chair here because of Stephen, and an audience whose first introduction to my works was brought about because Stephen had recommended me to his immense audience. Now I do my best to be a voice for others. To pass the parcel along. As a writer, Stephen has taught me countless lessons in storytelling. But it is the lesson of how to give that echoes most powerfully through my life. And will, I hope, echo on through the lives of others as I support the next generation of writers with my own sincere enthusiasm." - Clive Barker

Hopefully this link will work. A photo of the letter King sent to Clive Barker's publisher in 1985.

Duane, thanks for both of those pieces of info on King and Barker. I'd never read them before. Good stuff!

That's why I love this group, Debra. I find stuff like this all the time and now I have a forum to share it. Nobody on Facebook seems to care all that much about about this stuff.

I enjoyed reading that Duane, Barker really sound appreciative for what SK did for his career, and fells the need to pay it forward. Good for him!

I must say I have not read any of Clive Barker's books, but have know that SK has been a fan of his for awhile.

Debra thank you for posting some of your favs by this author, I'm going to check him out.

wow thats brilliant as i love them both