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Clive Barker is an English artist best known for the ‘Hellraiser’ series. He has written plays, novels, short stories, directed films, and dabbled in visual art. Born in 1952 in Liverpool, England, Barker grew up in a desolate place.
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Order of Book of the Art Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Great and Secret Show | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Everville | 1994 | Description / Buy |
Order of Imajica Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Imajica | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Fifth Dominion | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Reconciliation | 1995 | Description / Buy |
Order of Abarat Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Abarat: The First Book of Hours | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Days of Magic, Nights of War | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Absolute Midnight | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Books of Blood Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Books of Blood, Vol. 1 | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Books of Blood Volume 2 | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Books Of Blood Volume 3 | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Book Of Blood Volume 4 / The Inhuman Condition | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Book of Blood Volume 5 / In the Flesh | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Books of Blood Volume 6 | 1985 | Description / Buy |
Order of Galilee Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Galilee | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 3 (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 4 (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 5 (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker's Next Testament Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 1 (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 3 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker's Book of the Damned Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Book of the Damned | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Book of the Damned II | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Book of the Damned III | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Book of the Damned IV | 1993 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Damnation Game | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Weaveworld | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Cabal | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Thief of Always | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Sacrament | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Coldheart Canyon | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Mister B. Gone | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Dread | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Rawhead Rex | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Yattering And Jack | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
5 | In the Hills, the Cities | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Last Illusion | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Life of Death | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Forbidden | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Hellbound Heart | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Nightbreed Chronicles (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Son of Celluloid (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Haeckel\'s | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Tortured Souls (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Infernal Parade (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Hellraiser: The Toll (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Books of Blood I-III | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Tapping the Vein | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Lord of Illusions | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Incarnations | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Forms of Heaven | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Essential Clive Barker | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Clive Barker's First Tales (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Chiliad (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Scarlet Gospels | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Tonight, Again | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Clive Barker's the Body Book | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker Graphic Novels with Roger Corman
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Age of Desire | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Clive Barker Non-Fiction
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Rare Flesh (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Hellraiser Chronicles (Short Story) | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Visions of Heaven and Hell | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of Roger Corman Graphic Novels with Roger Corman
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Edgar Allan Poe Turns 200: Halloween Comic Book | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Mondo Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Mondo Barbie | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Mondo Elvis | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Mondo Marilyn | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Mondo James Dean | 1996 | Description / Buy |
Order of Nightbreed Series with Marc Andreyko
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #1 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #2 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #3 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #4 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #5 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #6 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #7 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #8 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #9 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #10 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #11 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed #12 (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Clive Barker Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Cutting Edge | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Gaslight & Ghosts | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Horror Factor 7 | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
6 | I Shudder at Your Touch: Twenty Two Tales of Sex and Horror | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Mammoth Book of Vampires | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Visions of Fear | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Giant Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Best New Horror 4 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Splatterpunks II | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Mammoth Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Mammoth Book of Erotica | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Giant Book of Terror | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Sea-Cursed | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Space Movies | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Mondo Marilyn | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Dark Terrors 2 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Giant Book of Fantasy Tales | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Secret City | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Millenium | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Dark Detectives | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Dark Delicacies | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Best New Horror 17 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Summer Chills | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Mammoth Book of Monsters | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Dark Delicacies: Fear | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The New Weird | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Living Dead | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Hellbound Hearts | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The Dead That Walk | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Shivers VII | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Mister October, Volume II | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Turn Down the Lights | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Best New Horror 25 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Horrorology | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Gutted | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Detours | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
51 | The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Behind the Mask - Tales from the Id | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Revelations | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Multiverses: An anthology of alternate realities | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
58 | Spook City | 2024 | Description / Buy |
The war had ended less than a decade earlier, and the city was heavily scarred by the violence. You could find bomb sites everywhere, which frightened the young boy. Surrounded as he was by poverty and racial problems, Barker wanted an escape, and he found it in his imagination.
The family’s primary source of entertainment was a radio. They did not have the luxury of owning a TV. Unfortunately, his mother and father monopolized the radio. And even if they hadn’t, the music of that era did not appeal to Barker.
So he sought refuge in the public library. At thirteen, the author was too young to venture into the adult section. But he spoke to the powers that be and proved to them that he had outgrown the children’s section.
Fortunately, they saw reason and allowed him access to the adult section, which wasn’t that large compared to the public libraries 21st Century kids have at their disposal. But it still placed thousands of books at his fingertips, which was more than enough to keep the young boy occupied.
The pantomime was another vital component of Barker’s upbringing. He remembers walking in at six or seven and being blown away by the colors, the actors in their bizarre costumes, and, most importantly, the stories.
The only other extravaganza that could match the panto for Barker was the puppet theater. The boy would visit St. George’s Hall on Saturday mornings to watch the Punch and Judy show. The show lasted a mere fifteen minutes, but it was enough to whet the boy’s appetite.
Unlike the pantomime, he could do his own puppet show. That one thought was vital to the boy’s development because it made Barker aware of his desire to entertain other people. And he did just that. The author would spend his Saturdays and Sundays in the back alley behind his house, entertaining the other kids in the neighborhood with his puppet show.
As an adult, life was challenging. Barker remembers signing on to the social security system and classifying himself as a poet. Because jobs for poets were non-existent, the government paid him the equivalent of 25 dollars a week to live on.
The Department of Health and Social Security probably thought he was taking advantage of the system because they eventually called him in and asked Barker to explain himself. To his credit, the author presented a solid case for his lifestyle, arguing that he would repay every cent the government had ever given him through taxes once his literary works found an audience.
He even presented some of the plays he had written. Mr. Flint, the man interrogating him, understood Barker’s struggles because he had written a play in previous years. But the BBC rejected it. Flint promised to protect Barker from his superiors until his hard work paid off. Two years later, Barker signed a book deal.
Clive Barker Awards
Barker has received several nominations and won a World Fantasy Award.
Clive Barker Books into Movies
Many renowned horror movies originated from Clive Barker books, comics, and short stories, including Dread (2009), Book of Blood (2009), the various Hellraiser and Candyman films, Quicksilver Highway (1997), Saint Sinner (2002), Books of Blood (2020), Lords of Illusions (1995), Rawhead Rex (1986), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), and Nightbreed.
Best Clive Barker Books
Besides publishing novels, short stories, and comics, the author creates paintings and illustrations, many of which have appeared in galleries. Barker’s best books include:
The Hellbound Heart: Frank opened Lemarchand’s box in search of pleasure. And the cenobites answered. But there’s was a world of eternal torment. Now, Frank sits in an empty room, waiting for his brother’s wife to satisfy his desire for flesh and blood.
The Thief of Always: 10-year-old Harvey was bored. The boy’s life revolved around school and homework, and that was no longer enough. He needed more, which is why Harvey did not hesitate to accept an invitation to the Holiday House, a place where his wildest dreams would come true.
When Does The Next Clive Barker book come out?
Clive Barker doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus and was released on June, 13th 2020. It is the newest book in the Clive Barker Short Stories/Novellas.