Clive Barker

Clive Barker, born 5 October 1952, is a British writer, filmmaker and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with the Books of Blood, a series of short stories that established him as a leading horror writer, and his fiction includes The Hellbound Heart, Weaveworld and the fantasy Abarat. His work has been adapted into the Hellraiser and Candyman films, and he wrote and directed the first Hellraiser. He also paints and illustrates, with his paintings shown in galleries in the United States.