Clive Barker

The Dark Fantastic

By: Douglas E. Winter

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Hardcover | 1 December 2001

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Clive Barker: a contemporary myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears - the writer who, more than any other contemporary figure, has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter and director he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic and frightening. In a detailed biography, enabled through unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, Douglas Winter reveals at last what haunts the man who haunts us all.

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Giant critical biography of horror novelist Barker, covering his vast body of work and quoting the subject about his family, his interior life, his joys, his depressions, and, briefly, his lovers. Anthologist and novelist Winter (Run, 2000, etc.) calls Liverpudlian dark fantasist Barker "a polymath of the perverse-an artist who was willfully determined not to fulfill expectation." In addition to his fiction, Barker's bedeviled muse has led him into storytelling as actor, puppeteer, playwright, and painter; he's created films, comic books, graphic novels, and a spooky computer role-playing game. He also hopes to build a next-generation Internet entertainment complex to be called Primordium. This relentless poly-creativity-"bizarrely free of intellectual effort," Barker admits-has led him recently to put aside questioning his past work and simply move onward. He relocated to Hollywood, but after writing and directing the grisly Hellraiser, he sank into time-consuming Tinseltown and TV fantasy projects for which he often failed to find backers. Smoothly done. Fans should love it-and why not? (Kirkus Reviews)

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