Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He is the author of The Books of Blood (in six volumes), The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, Cabal, The Great and Secret Show, Imajica, Everville and Sacrament as well as writing, directing and producing for the screen - his films include Hellraiser and Nightbreed. He presently lives in Los Angeles.
I literally could not read him alone. His stories are compulsively readable and original. He is an important, exciting and enormously talented writer STEPHEN KING Gushing gore and flying flesh ... read it with gloves on Time Out Clive Barker writes about horrors most of us would scarcely dare imagine Ramsey Campbell