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Clive Barker
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Clive Barker is an English creative figure born in 1952 who has worked across multiple artistic fields as an author, film director, and visual artist. His work across literature, cinema, and visual art has made him a significant influence in horror and dark fantasy genres.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 Oct 1952
- Works
- 180
Top works
- Das zweite Buch des Blutes
- Imajica (The Fifth Dominion, Book 1)
- Splatterpunks II
- Night visions
- The Hellbound Heart
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,200
- Total plays
- 25,679
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- Critical Review of rate constants for reactions of hydrated electrons, hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl radicals (⋅OH/⋅O− in Aqueous Solution
· 1988 · cited 10,946x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
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Quotes
- “Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”
- “By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.”
- “Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.”
- “If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”
- “I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.”
- “I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-10-05 ) 5 October 1952 (age 73) , Liverpool , England
- Occupations
- Writer filmmaker visual artist
- Website
- clivebarker .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.clivebarker.info
- Image
- CliveBarker (cropped2).jpg
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- Clive Barker
- date of birth
- 1952-10-05
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- social media followers
- 126125
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Article
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.