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unusual facts about Clive Barker


George Dearnaley

He left South Africa for a soccer scholarship in America after he saw minimal chances of playing professionally there, he returned after his father had a conversion with Clive Barker two weeks later.


Bronco McLoughlin

In the horror movie by Clive Barker, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, because of a neck accident, Kenneth Cranham only wore the Channard Cenobite makeup for one day, McLoughlin played the Channard Cenobite for the rest of the shoot.

Cris Velasco

He also composed music for the videogame based on the original Battlestar Galactica series, Terminator 3: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Anderson's Cross, Haze, Splinter Cell: Double Agent (main theme only), Clive Barker's Jericho and is credited with doing additional music for Van Helsing.

Frank Lovece

Lovece went on to write stories for Epic's anthology series Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and wrote the nine-issue run of Hokum & Hex for Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by novelist Barker.

Lock puzzle

Clive Barker's horror novella The Hellbound Heart (later adapted into a movie Hellraiser, followed by numerous original sequels) centered around Lemarchand's box which appears to be such a puzzle box but in fact opens the gates to another dimension when manipulated.

Stephen Thrower

With Coil, he worked on the (unreleased) soundtrack for Hellraiser by Clive Barker, and recorded the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film, The Angelic Conversation, as well as making appearances in Jarman's films, Caravaggio, The Last of England and Imagining October.

The Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 mystery horror-thriller film based on Clive Barker's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood.


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Bill Koeb

In addition to the series, Koeb painted the 18-page story "For My Son", written by Frank Lovece, for Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (1992).

Dead letter office

Horror writer Clive Barker's book The Great and Secret Show features segments centered around the dead letter office at Omaha, Nebraska.

Marc Hempel

Hempel's art has also appeared in Marvel Fanfare, Epic Illustrated, Heavy Metal, Jonny Quest, Tarzan the Warrior, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Flinch, My Faith in Frankie, The Dreaming, Lucifer, and Disney Adventures.

The Midnight Meat Train

Producer Joe Daley, a long-time friend of Buhler's, brought the two writers together and helped develop the script, along with producers Anthony Diblasi and Jorge Saralegui, for their and Clive Barker's production company Midnight Picture Show, which was also responsible for Book of Blood, the next film adaptation from the anthology of short stories that spawned The Midnight Meat Train.

Theatre games

The theatre games tradition is a method of training actors that was developed in the 20th century by practitioners such as Joan Littlewood, Viola Spolin, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal.