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Clive Barker is best known for the Books of Blood, a six-volume series of short stories and novelettes published between 1984 and 1985. The novella The Hellbound Heart, which became the basis for the Hellraiser film series, and longer fantasy novels such as Weaveworld (1987) and Imajica (1991) also rank among his most recognised works.
Clive Barker directed three films: Hellraiser (1987), Nightbreed (1990), and Lord of Illusions (1995). He turned to directing after being dissatisfied with how George Pavlou handled his screenplays for Underworld (1985) and Rawhead Rex (1986).
The 1992 Candyman film was based on Barker's short story "The Forbidden", which appeared in Books of Blood: Volume V (1985). The story won the 1986 British Fantasy Award for Short Story, and the Candyman franchise eventually extended to three sequels plus a 2021 film.
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool on the 5th of October 1952. He attended Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School before studying English and philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
Barker's paintings have been exhibited at Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles and Chicago, the Bess Cutler Gallery in New York, and La Luz De Jesus in Los Angeles. Around 150 of his artworks were used to build the set of the Academy of the Unseen Arts for the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Barker has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, and Lambda Literary Awards across his career. He received the 2013 Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1995 World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, and the 1995 International Horror Guild Living Legend Award.