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Clive Barker

October 2022

  • Stephen King at home in Maine, US.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 horror short stories

  • Jamie Clayton in Hellraiser.

    Hellraiser review – stylish goth horror remake is as sadistic as it is silly

October 2021

  • Virginia Madsen in Candyman (1992), based on Clive Barker’s The Forbidden.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 urban legends in literature

    Writers from Clive Barker to China Miéville and Mariana Enriquez show how city settings for uncanny fiction create a new kind of horror

February 2021

  • Hellraiser: Judgment

    Hellraiser: Judgment review – diminishing, misogynist returns for classic franchise

    Pinhead is still lurking, but the iconic series’ once-interesting eroticism has degenerated into nasty titillation in this sorry sequel

June 2019

  • ‘At first, we needed a police escort’ … Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen in the 1992 supernatural shocker.

    How we made
    How we made Candyman: 'I got a $1,000 bonus for every bee sting'

    The director and star of the horror classic remember acting with swarming insects – and using hypnosis to get a deeper performance from Virginia Madsen

October 2017

  • ‘No tears, please – it’s a waste of good suffering’… Doug Bradley as Pinhead.

    How we made
    How we made Hellraiser

  • Like the goriest of soap operas … Hellraiser.

    Hellraiser review – Clive Barker's pinhead horror makes its point again

June 2016

  • Toby Jones as the King of Highhills

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Tale of Tales review – bawdy and fantastical

    Inspired by 17th-century Italian fairytales, Matteo Garrone’s thrilling circus of sex and violence is definitely not one for the children

January 2015

  • Clive Barker's Pinhead

    Hellraiser Pinhead stories to end with long-awaited novel The Scarlet Gospels

    Due this May, Clive Barker’s first novel for adults since 2007 promises to ‘make your worst nightmares seem like bedtime stories’

June 2012

  • A scene from Carrie, adapted from the Stephen King novel

    Bring on the blood-spattered bodies – the Tories are in power

    David Barnett: Perhaps it's only natural that horror's rise in popularity – in film as well as books – tends to mirror that of the Conservative party

October 2009

  • George Orwell's 1984

    Books blog
    Where horror truly lies ...

    Stephen King didn’t scare me when I first started reading adult horror fiction as a teenager – it was Orwell’s 1984 that really frightened me

October 2008

  • Hellraiser (1987)

    French horror ingenue to direct Hellraiser reboot

    Pascal Laugier, whose film Martyrs was this year handed France's equivalent of the restrictive NC-17 certificate, has been chosen to revamp the Clive Barker horror series

July 2008

  • Clive Barker

    "I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more and when they do I tend to take them off."

December 2007

  • Games

    Clive Barker's Jericho | Uncharted: Drake's | Unreal Tournament 3

October 2006

  • Barker tapped to raise hell again

    Hellraiser creator Clive Barker has been asked by the Weinstein brothers to script the forthcoming remake of his iconic 1987 horror.

July 2003

  • Top 10s
    Michael Marshall Smith's top 10 horror books

    Michael Marshall Smith's SF/fantasy novels include Only Forward, described by Clive Barker as an "extraordinary debut", and Spares. His latest, as Michael Marshall, is the bestselling serial-killer thriller The Straw Men

October 2002

  • Candy and Carrion

    China Miéville finds in Abarat, Clive Barker's new fantasy series, a haunting catalogue of the strange

February 1999

  • Megaphone

    Lord of illusion Plasma-and-viscera master Clive Barker has signed a deal with New Line to write and direct American Horror, which may have the legs to turn itself into a new franchise (they always say that, mind). Little has been announced about the film, except that it will be set on the expanding American railway network in the aftermath of the American Civil War, ie from about 1865 onwards.

November 1998

  • Clive Barker

    I sound like a pervert? Whoopee

    Interview: Clive Barker

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