OT: Anyone a Clive Barker fan?

[David Glassey]

I came across this site today:

http://www.pyramid-gallery.com/

If you are a Barker fan you will probably get a kick out of the site. I really like The Damnation Game and Weaveworld, I also enjoyed the first Hellraiser movie and being an H.P. Lovecraft fan, the content on this website is definitely intriguing. I appreciate the work that it takes to make these Lemarchand boxes, I believe in the movie it was called The Lament Configuration. The made up history for these boxes completely reminds me of The Necronomicon in Lovecraft's Cthullu universe.

[Mikolaj]

I'm a big fan of Clives ficrion. In my time, I red all the books and short stories that have been translated here. Also I'm considering the Clive Barkers Undying one of the best PC games of all time. Brilliant narration and story. What bothers me a bit about Clives writing are his... Well things he writes from time to time. Like the way you "make" Linkz [or whatever the name was of these strange snake like monsters] and many other unsetteling

As to the galery... maybe thats just me be'n realy tired today but I fail to see any concection with clives work (maybe except the climate)

[David Glassey]

Clive doesn't own any rights to Hellraiser intellectual property. I believe in an interview he states that it was one of the stupider things he has ever done, he agreed to give up licensing rights to get to make the movie, which was made for about one million dollars. According to a Clive Barker website, the first Hellraiser movie is getting remade, with Clive as a writer/producer/consultant and has a larger budget than a million. Clive was asked to work on it, with the understanding that if he didn't the movie would be made anyway with or with out him and without him it would be made any way the studio or director wanted it to go, therefore he agreed to work on the movie.

On a personal note I find The Damnation Game to be one of his best works, if not the best. The book is completely different from his subsequent work. very edgy. I also like Weaveworld very much, otherwise I have not read much of his stuff. The Great and Secret Show, The Thief of Always and The Books of Bood are the only other books I have read of his.

I don't think this website really has anything to do with Clive, I just like the the box designs.

[Reader]

Damnation Game and Books of Blood were great reads. I agree with Khan that his writing can be...visceral, but I thought that it added to that uncomfortable feeling that good horror prose gives you.

R