Clive Barker
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"Clive Barker" is an English people/English writer, 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 known as the Books of Blood 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 films, notably the Hellraiser (film series)/Hellraiser and Candyman (film)/Candyman series. He was the Executive Producer of the film Gods and Monsters (film)/Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Awards/Academy Award for Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay/Best Adapted Screenplay.

Barker's paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries in the United States, as well as within his own books. He has also created original characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been adapted to the medium.

His archives have been a source of material for biographies and non-fiction books containing his personal essays, discussions of his fringe theater work, interviews, and other content.

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You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two pieces, the box is put back together again and the lady is whole. The magician, the shaman figure, the worker of miracles divides and subdivides himself and his assistants. He's drowned, is bound, is filled with swords, and comes out whole.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!