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Clive Barker
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OverviewAI-generated
Clive Barker is a person born on 5 Oct 1952. His work period began in 1984. He is associated with the horror genre and has an official website. According to Open Library, he has 180 works, with top titles including Das zweite Buch des Blutes, Imajica (The Fifth Dominion, Book 1), Splatterpunks II, Night visions, and The Hellbound Heart. Crossref lists 5 works for him.
Barker has been referenced by 736 other encyclopedia articles. His social media followers number 126125. On Last.fm, he has 1200 listeners and a playcount of 25679. MusicBrainz identifies his country as DE. Wikiquote attributes several statements to him, including "Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth." and "Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red."
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-10-05 ) 5 October 1952 (age 73) , Liverpool , England
- Occupations
- Writer filmmaker visual artist
- Website
- clivebarker .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Barker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Liverpool
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Hellraiser
- Official website
- www.clivebarker.info
- Image
- CliveBarker (cropped2).jpg
- Residence
- Liverpool
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- influenced by
- Ray Bradbury
- Commons category
- Clive Barker
- date of birth
- 1952-10-05
- topic's main category
- Category:Clive Barker
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Clive Barker
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- social media followers
- 126125
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
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Encyclopedic overview
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is a British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror author. His work has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series (the first installment of which he also wrote and directed) and the Candyman series.
Barker's paintings and illustrations have been shown in galleries in the United States, and have appeared in his books. He has also created characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been featured in ongoing comics series.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clive Barker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.