"I have seen the future of horror...and it is named Clive Barker."
While his most well-known projects are his horror novels and short stories, Clive Barker has a long career as painter that will be surveyed in his new exhibition, "1977," opening tomorrow night, August 23, at Century Guild in Culver City. The interdisciplinary artist — whose biggest credits include having his novels adapted for the Hellraiser and Candyman film series — will be showing a series of paintings he created in 1977 when he was 24 years old, as well as new works from this year. Filled with macabre imagery, Barker's paintings have a bone-chilling quality while balancing horror with humor. Coinciding with the exhibition will be the release of Barker's new art book, Imaginer.
Clive Barker, The Bride and The Groom (1995)
Volume 3 contains the stories “Son of Celluloid,” “Rawhead Rex,” “Confession of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud,” “Scape-Goats,” “Human Remains.” Barker himself adapted "Rawhead Rex" into a movie in 1986. A particularly nasty demon is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rawhead Rex's rampage through the Irish countryside while a man struggles to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSLX1IDR1d8 The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia] “Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.” Clive Barker
