To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful. These are words we can use to describe Clive Barker only until we invent new, more fitting adjectives.
- Quentin Tarantino

His Growing Legacy

Clive Barker, is beyond the page and pen, the brush and pad, or the screen and reel.


- A Barker Painting

The variety in Clive Barker's works even include books that border on being children's books, such as the Thief of Always - a coming-of-age story of victory against a soul-stealer who traps you in a world of pleasant bliss; a faked reality - as it robs you of your youth and soul. 


His films, though not as wildly successful as his literature, have been both panned by critics, and loved, some like the above, turned into cult classics for the b-horror movie genre-junkies. 

His stories invite you to glimpse all of the romantically fantastic, all of the grossly gruesome, the horribly horrific, the sexy-sinister while enjoying something laced with magic and wonder. Stories like the 'Hellbound Heart' - a story of a puzzlebox that's also a gateway portal to torture, and the architects of pain and sensuality, the Cenobites (demons) - creatures like:


Pinhead. A horror movie icon, and haunter of nightmares.
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