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Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (Paperback)

by Douglas E. Winter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (21 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 000715092X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007150922
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 311,051 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Absorbing and meticulous, this thorough accounting of Clive Barker as a man of boundless imagination is a work of solid scholarship and a complete portrait of a still-young, still-evolving artist who has accomplished much" Washington Times "Weaves literary analysis and biography to paint a compelling portrait of a restless writer, director, producer and actor" Variety "Reading and completing The Dark Fantastic, I felt transformed. Don't hesitate to open this physically and metaphysically huge book and enjoy every word of it. You will emerge liberated and ready to discover new worlds of your own" Nova Express

Giant critical biography of horror novelist Barker, covering his vast body of work and quoting the subject about his family, his interior life, his joys, his depressions, and, briefly, his lovers. Anthologist and novelist Winter (Run, 2000, etc.) calls Liverpudlian dark fantasist Barker "a polymath of the perverse-an artist who was willfully determined not to fulfill expectation." In addition to his fiction, Barker's bedeviled muse has led him into storytelling as actor, puppeteer, playwright, and painter; he's created films, comic books, graphic novels, and a spooky computer role-playing game. He also hopes to build a next-generation Internet entertainment complex to be called Primordium. This relentless poly-creativity-"bizarrely free of intellectual effort," Barker admits-has led him recently to put aside questioning his past work and simply move onward. He relocated to Hollywood, but after writing and directing the grisly Hellraiser, he sank into time-consuming Tinseltown and TV fantasy projects for which he often failed to find backers. Smoothly done. Fans should love it-and why not? (Kirkus Reviews)

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The authorized biography of the man who created "The Books of Blood" and "Weaveworld". Barker: a contemporary 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 and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic and frightening. In this detailed biography, enabled through unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, Douglas Winter reveals at last what haunts the man who haunts us all.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing but essential for fans, 15 Jan 2002
This review is from: Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (Hardcover)
Like the other reviewers on this page, I have been counting the days until the release of this book. But I have to say on the whole I am disappointed with the lack of personal material. This book could have been written by any Barker fan, most of the material has been borrowed from the earlier Barker critique Shadows in Eden, and the rest in just a collection of synopsis, which any fan will no doubt skip. There are it must be said a few nuggets of information, not to be found anywhere else, but does that really justify this book? I think not.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Almost darkly fantastic!, 29 Jun 2002
By DM Webster "arakis2002" (Norfolk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: The Authorized Biography (Hardcover)
I've been fascinated by Clive Barker's work for several years now but was concerned that maybe I was more interested in the idea of him rather than his work. This book confirms it. Although very well written and informative about the work that Clive Barker has done its a bit surplus to requirements for anyone who has read any of Clive's work or seen any of his films. Each chapter covers one of either Clive's films or books and contains a large summary of the plot. I was hoping to find out more about the rational of Clive Barker, his thoughts and ideas. Douglas E Winter obviously knows his subject and has a great respect for Barker but a biography, I feel, should go beyond this and be more analytical. By the end of the book I knew nothing more about Clive Barker than when I had started except which books I would not be interested in reading. A shame because this could have been an opportunity to reach the man behind the myth. In the end it merely perpetuates it!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A Walk Through The Life And Works, 14 Dec 2001
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This review is from: Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (Hardcover)
I eagerly awaited this book, and read it voraciously. Clive Barker, as a man (the times we've met) and an artist (through his varied work and visions) has intrigued and interested me. I expected this book would hook me because of this, and whilst it was passionately well written by Mr Winter, I have to say that it doesn't really do much more than skim the surface of Barker's life. It's heavy number of pages are largely concerned with detailed synopses of Clive's films and books, which most fans will already by overly familiar with. I would have preferred more of the man himself, behind the myths as it were, though whether or not this lack of more intimate substance is because Barker is a private individual (in which case why allow a biography in the first place?) or because his life is consumed by his work (seemingly the more plausible explanation) isn't distinctly clear. With reference to the latter reason, the personal information tellingly starts thinning out as soon as Clive starts making money. Perhaps Mr Barker is after all a man consumed by his work. Despite my comments this is far from being a bad book, and fans will love it. But it holds back from being a great biography because of the above, and doesn't really work as a career criticism either because (as Winter freely admits) he is far too much of a forgiving fan to be a harsh critic. Not what I'd hoped for, but entertaining and valued to me all the same, and - to end on a cliche - well worth a look!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Barker for beginners only. Disappointing.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Oh. so dull!
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