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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.
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. Gregson was a major influence in Barker's early artistic life and provided the support mechanisms that enabled Barker to indulge in his love of theatre and writing novels. Volume 2 of 'The Books of Blood' and 'The Damnation Game' are dedicated to him. Barker now lives in Los Angeles, California.
In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has identified himself as a Christian, and has stated that the Bible influences his work.
Clive Barker had said, "I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers."
Fans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. He says in a December 2008 online interview (published March 2009) that this is due to polyps in his throat which were so severe that a doctor told him he was taking in ten percent of the air he was supposed to have been getting. He has had two surgeries to remove them and believes his resultant voice is an improvement over how it was prior to the surgeries. He said he did not have cancer and has given up cigars.
On August 27, 2010, Barker underwent surgery yet again to remove new polyp growths from his throat. According to his website, the surgery went well and was without complications.
Much like horror director John Carpenter, Clive Barker is a known supporter of video games as an art form and has condemned film critic Roger Ebert's view on them as a inferior form of media stating that video games have the power to move people and that as a film critic he was not qualified to judge their potential to be an art form.
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Books of Blood Series
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 1 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Berkrot, Chris Patton, D*ick Hill, Simon Vance, Chet Williamson)
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 2 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Berkrot, Peter Bishop, Hillary Huber, John Lee)
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 3 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Scott Brick, Xe Sands, Peter Bishop, Chris Patton)
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 4 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Bishop, Gigi Shane, Helen Lloyd, Mikael Naramore)
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 5 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Melissa Exelberth, Scott O'Neill, Vanessa Hart)
Clive Barker - Books Of Blood: Volume 6 (read by Jeffrey Kafer, Simon Vance, D*ick Hill, Johnny Heller, Pearl Hewitt, Chris Patton)
Abarat Series
Clive Barker - Abarat (read by Richard Ferrone)
Clive Barker - Days Of Magic, Nights Of War (read by Richard Ferrone)
Clive Barker - Absolute Midnight (read by Richard Ferrone)
Hellraiser Series
Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart (read by Jeffrey Kafer)
Mark Alan Miller - The Toll (read by Tom Holland)
Clive Barker - The Scarlet Gospels (read by John Lee)
Book of the Art Series
Clive Barker - The Great And Secret Show (read by Chet Williamson)
Clive Barker - Everville (read by Chet Williamson)
Imajica Series
Clive Barker - Imajica (read by Simon Vance)
Non-Series
Clive Barker - Tonight, Again (read by Doug Bradley)
Clive Barker - The Thief Of Always (read by Greg Johnson)
Clive Barker - Weaveworld (read by Simon Vance)
Clive Barker - Cabal (read by Chet Williamson)
Clive Barker - The Damnation Game (read by Simon Vance)
Clive Barker - Mister B. Gone (read by Doug Bradley)
Clive Barker - The Inhuman Condition (read by Dillinger Steele)
Clive Barker - Coldheart Canyon (read by Frank Muller)
Clive Barker - In The Flesh (read by Dillinger Steele)
Clive Barker - Galilee (read by Paul Hecht)
Clive Barker - Sacrament (read by Ron Keith)
Clive Barker - Tortured Souls (read by Peter Bishop)
Clive Barker - Chiliad (read by John Lee)
Clive Barker - The History Of The Devil (Katherine Borowitz, Simon Jones, Dylan Barker)
Clive Barker - Clive Barker's First Tales (read by Simon Vance)
Clive Barker - The Adventures Of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus And His Travelling Circus (read by Bruce Donnelly)
Clive Barker - Individual Short Stories (read by Simon Vance, Mark Ashby, David Palmer, Kevin Conway, Vanessa Maroney, John Lee, Jack Fox, Bruce Donnelly)
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