The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, CA. To use it is the Art.Īrmageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha. Memory, prophecy and fantasy the past, the future, and the dreaming moment between are all one country living one immortal day. "Succinctly put," says Barker, "it's about Hollywood, sex and Armageddon."
In this unforgettable epic he wields the full power and sweep of his talents. Now, with The Great and Secret Show he rises to new heights. His theatrical work would come to a close as he shifted focus to writing the Books of Blood.Clive Barker's bestseller Weaveworld astonished readers with his visionary range, establishing him as a master of fabulist literature. From 1982 to 1983, he also created three plays, including Crazyface, for the Cockpit Youth Theatre. Later he moved toward modern-day fantasy and urban fantasy with horror elements in Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, the world-spanning Imajica, and Sacrament.īarker was born in Liverpool (5 October 1952), the son of Joan Ruby, a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm.īarker co-founded the avant-garde theatrical troupe The Dog Company in 1978 with former school friends and up and coming actors, many of which would go on to become key collaborators in Barker's film work. He was also an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.īarker began writing horror early in his career, mostly in the form of short stories and the Faustian novel The Damnation Game. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first installment of which he also wrote and directed, and the Candyman series.
He has since written many novels and other works. Clive Barker is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.
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