Clive Barker: a modern myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears, the writer who -- more than any other contemporary figure -- has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, artist and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic, frightening and ultimately meaningful. Douglas E. Winter's detailed and highly literate biography, made possible by unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, offers readers a privileged ...
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Clive Barker: a modern myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears, the writer who -- more than any other contemporary figure -- has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, artist and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic, frightening and ultimately meaningful. Douglas E. Winter's detailed and highly literate biography, made possible by unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, offers readers a privileged insight into Barker's own story: his Liverpool childhood and adolescence; his forays into the world of theatre, mime and direction; his meteoric rise to fame as the author of the Books of Blood and Weaveworld, and the director of Hellraiser ; his move to Hollywood to pursue a film career and his growth as an artist in many different media, which has taken him from theatre -- the first form of human expression -- into the digital age. Interwoven with this revealing and personal journey into Barker's life is a grand tour through all of his fiction and film, from his earliest unpublished work -- including the short story "The Wood on the Hill," which is published here for the first time -- up to his most recent novel, Coldheart Canyon and beyond, giving a tantalising glimpse of things to come. Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic unlocks the beating heart of a polymath, a creator, a true artist, and reveals at last a man with one of the twentieth century's most phenomenal imaginations, and the vision to lead us on many strange and fabulous journeys in the years ahead.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; First printing with number line to 1. Blue and purple boards with silver spine titling, very good with light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good to very good with light shelf-wear and edgewear, lightly foxed to verso. Textblock fore-edge lightly foxed, dusty top edge. Interior clean, text unmarked.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, customary library markings and attachments, dj has mylar cover taped to boards.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight clean un-read copy. The priced jacket has some light rubbing. The edges of the text block have tanned as pretty much normal for this title. 163 pages of notes, index, bibliography. Many photos. A very nice copy. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.
