Gone, the demonic Villain Protagonist from the story of the same name, bathes in a tub full of blood from dead babies. The Blank: The Engineer in The Hellbound Heart.Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Barbarossas and The Gearys in Galilee.The story is a Black Comedy based on the ridiculous visual gag of a bedsheet ghost murdering people in increasingly graphic fashion. Bedsheet Ghost: The protagonist of the short story 'Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud' is a straight-laced Catholic man framed as a porn kingpin and murdered, who possesses the shroud covering him in the morgue to take his revenge.Imajica and Sacrament are this in particular. Author Tract: Some of Clive Barker's works serve as this for his feminist and environmentalist views, respectively.Author Appeal: A few of his stories feature men getting raped by other men, and then realizing that they like it.Anyone Can Die: Indeed, in the second novel of Abarat, it seems that Barker can only keep a certain number of characters alive at any given point, so for every new character introduced, another is cleanly hacked away.Antihero: Most of his protagonists are flawed.Tropes featured in Clive Barker's body of work include:

The Book of the Art Trilogy (So far consisting of The Great And Secret Show and Everville).

Cabal (the book on which Nightbreed was based).

The Hellbound Heart (the novella on which the first Hellraiser was based).

' The Forbidden' (the novella on which the first Candyman was based).

Clive Barkers Book Of The Damned A Hellraiser Companion.

He has a nearly half-century long friendship and artistic partnership with Hellraiser star Doug Bradley, the two having met when they were in secondary school and collaborated on dozens of projects since. He has also created characters and series for comic books, and some of his stories have been adapted to the medium. On the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, his stories lie pretty far on the cynical side, with heavily flawed but sympathetic protagonists and an overall dark and gritty tone, although some of his novels have had happy and magically enchanting endings, and have featured themes such as love and redemption.īarker is also an artist, with some of his paintings having been featured in galleries in the United States, as well as illustrating the covers of his own books. His stories are usually set in a contemporary urban setting, but with Another Dimension or many dimensions. His works almost always feature sexual overtones that are graphic, disturbing, and disgusting in nature.

Clive Barker (born October 5, 1952) is a British horror and dark fantasy author responsible for over a dozen novels, several movies, a few graphic novels, some artwork, and a couple of video games as well.

The Forbidden by Clive Barker