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  Clive Barker's Jericho Unveiled - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and ...
The Hollywood Reporter has a story up about horror author Clive Barker's latest foray into the videogame market, revealing that he is working with Codemasters on Clive Barker's Jericho.
Barker previously worked with EA on the first person action game The Undying.
New media from Clive Barker's Jericho has been released, with some of these screenshots finally offering a proper look at the first person perspective...
www.shacknews.com /onearticle.x/42960   (709 words)

  
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Barker is one of the leading authors of contemporary horror/fantasy, starting out with pure horror writing early in his career, mostly in the form of short stories (collected in Books of Blood 1 - 6), and later moving towards epic modern-day fantasy with some horror elements.
Barker's distinctive style is characterized by the notion of hidden fantastical worlds existing side by side with our own (an idea he shares with contemporary Neil Gaiman), the role of sexuality in the supernatural (in his later work, particularly homosexuality), and the construction of coherent, complex and detailed mythologies.
Barker is also a prolific and talented visual artist, working in a variety of media, often illustrating his own books, as well as more recently holding independent exhibitions.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clive_barker.html   (230 words)

  
 Clive Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clive Barker (born October 5, 1952, Liverpool) is an English author, film director and visual artist.
Barker's distinctive style is characterized by the notion of hidden fantastical worlds existing side by side with our own (an idea he shares with contemporary Neil Gaiman), the role of sexuality in the supernatural and the construction of coherent, complex and detailed mythologies.
Barker horror adaptations and spin-offs in comics include the Marvel/Epic series Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Pinhead, The Harrowers, Book of the Damned and Jihad; Eclipse Books' series and graphic novels Tapping The Vein, Dread, Son of Celluloid, Revelations The Life of Death, Rawhead Rex and The Yattering and Jack; and Dark Horse Comics' Primal, among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clive_Barker   (874 words)

  
 Clive Barker's Undying - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clive Barker's Undying is a horror-themed FPS computer game based on the Unreal Tournament game engine, developed by DreamWorks Interactive, and released in 2001 by Electronic Arts.
Noted horror author Clive Barker was consulted in shaping the game's plot and background story and also provided the voice of Ambrose, a character in the game.
Clive Barker provided the voice of Ambrose, one of the undead Covenant siblings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clive_Barker's_Undying   (1828 words)

  
 The Clive Barker Collectables Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clive Barker's new novel is the first in a four part childrens odesy that is being described as Clive Barker's Alice in Wonderland.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best II Comics' greatest talent (Wachowski, Bolton, McDuffie, Dorman, Conrad, Nutman, Villagran, Van Fleet) unleashed with the graphic potential of Barker's horrifying world of warring order and chaos.
Clive Barker's long awaited Biography is out now with limited editions on the way.
www.collectclive.com   (576 words)

  
 Clive Barker's COLDHEART CANYON book review
For Barker is not known as the teller of ghostly tales.
Clive Barker glorifies in showing us grizzly scenes of horrible, fleshy monsters, the kind of which nightmares are made.
In many ways, Barker may have succeeded in his portrayal of Tammy Lauper, for she is not meant to be a perfect person, and we do fully understand her motivation.
www.feoamante.com /Stories/Reviews/CBarker/cold_heart.html   (1161 words)

  
 Clive Barker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Essential Clive Barker is a treasurehouse of fiction, containing over seventy excerpts from novels, plays, and four full-length short stories, all personally selected by the author and accompanied by a series of fascinating and revealing introductions.
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952.
Barker also has a hand in a range of projects that reflect his grasp of the creative potential in contemporary media.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/clivebarker.html   (1992 words)

  
 Clive Barker: Master of Hell
Stephen King once wrote, "I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker." This was based mainly on Clive's literary works at the time.However, I do think that he has done an outstanding job on certain occasions in translating his literary vision onto the silver screen.
Pain, pleasure, fear and love can all be the same emotion in Clive's world because, as in real life, all feed off the human soul and leads to the ultimate conclusion....death.
Clive himself has admitted to be greatly influenced by Argento, who also is a master of imagery.
www.houseofhorrors.com /barker.htm   (588 words)

  
 Clive Barker's - Horror Literature
Clive Barker, one of the most successful authors of the horror genre, is renowned for his cutting-edge, prolific storytelling.
Barker examines many social, psychological, and moral dilemmas and how they effect the overall development of the human psyche.
Barker’s “Dread” is a brilliant example of the importance of horror literature as a tool for examining and dealing with the hideous demons and abundant fear ever-present in the human soul.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art37091.asp   (303 words)

  
 Interview: Clive Barker
Barker insists that the publicist who he's spent much of the last three days with must have her photo taken with him.
Barker himself is frank, charming, incredibly lucid and literate and owns an aura of happy sensuality that defies easy categorization.
Barker recently announced his homosexuality, simultaneously debuting his latest book -- Sacrament -- that the writer himself says is largely autobiographical and whose main character is a gay man.
www.januarymagazine.com /barker.html   (3118 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA.COM: TALKING COMICS WITH CLIVE BARKER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Adapted with the full cooperation and assistance of Barker himself, this sprawling tale of secret lives and secret lands is equal parts fantasy, horror story and love fable.
Barker: We are about to embark on a filmed adaptation [a six-hour TV miniseries] of Weaveworld, and I feel the same pressure.
Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show #1, a $3.99 32-page, full-color comic, will be available in March from IDW Publishing.
www.newsarama.com /IDW/Barkerverse/BarkerInt.htm   (2805 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Clive Barker - Books: Meet the Writers
Barker is back with the second in a series of books about a world of islands representing each hour of the day (plus one) and the Minnesota girl who finds herself exploring them.
Barker talked on his web site in 2002 about the reception for his novel Coldheart Canyon, about a twisted Hollywood netherworld: "I've been surprised with people who liked it, Maslin for The New York Times liked it, which was a little surprising [laugh].
Barker friend Winter penned this detailed, admittedly partisan assessment of a protean career, an book that succeeds as a closely observed account of the evolution of an artist, and as a cogent explication of Baker's dominant -- and recurring -- themes.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=90805   (418 words)

  
 Director Clive Barker - MoviesOnline
Hellraiser : The feature-film debut of multi-talented Clive Barker, this grim and surreal project is based on the writer-director's own novella "The Hell-Bound Heart." The film opens with a chilling prologue in which globe-trotting pervert Frank (Sean Chapman) -- a connoisseur of sexual depravity seeking...
Clive Barker and John Woo Sign on for Demonik : Clive Barker and John Woo are attached as producers to Demonik, a feature adaptation of the currently-in-development video game.
Clive Barker is one of the premiere contemporary writers of horror novels.
www.moviesonline.ca /director325.htm   (2156 words)

  
 Clive Barker's Jericho Announced
Clive Barker's Jericho is being designed as an action horror title that will up the stakes in visuals and phantasmagorical special effects.
Mingling the darkest elements of Barker's horror fiction and films with an ambitious, age-spanning story, the title will be aimed at mature gamers, fans of Clive Barker and horror fiction enthusiasts.
Clive Barker's Jericho is now in development for next generation consoles and PC and is schedule to launch late in 2007.
www.xboxcore.com /news/1656.html   (737 words)

  
 GameSpy: New Clive Barker Game Coming
Now Clive Barker is back in the world of gaming to scare the snot out of us all over again.
In an article on Reuters, Barker says, "the concept is that somewhere in northern Africa there is a walled city which is not just a walled city but walls within walls within walls.
Clive Barker's Jericho is scheduled for a late 2007 release on next-generation consoles and the PC.
pc.gamespy.com /pc/clive-barkers-jericho/719581p1.html   (256 words)

  
 Sharky Games - '+$ArtG+' - '+$ArtC+' - '+$ArtN+'
Clive Barker is one of the world's best-known horror authors.
We were recently given the chance to sit down with Clive to talk about his work on Undying as well as what he feels makes a video game truly frightening, his thoughts on games in general and their potential as a medium for artistic expression.
Clive Barker: They ("they" being Dreamworks) had a game which they were not entirely happy with.
www.sharkygames.com /games/articles/undying_interview   (553 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Barker, Clive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clive Barker is perhaps best known as the writer and director of the modern classic horror film Hellraiser (1987), which spawned multiple sequels, and as the executive producer of the Oscar-winning film Gods and Monsters (1999), based on the Christopher Bram novel Father of Frankenstein (1995), about gay film director James Whale.
However, Barker is also a prolific fiction writer, actor, playwright, painter, and illustrator, as well as a developer of comic books and computer games.
A portrait of Clive Barker by Stathis Orphanos.
www.glbtq.com /arts/barker_c.html   (795 words)

  
 Locus Online: Clive Barker interview excerpts
Clive Barker grew up in Liverpool and worked in theater for several years there and in London.
In 1999 Barker began a series of paintings that eventually became illustrations for his young adult fantasy series The Abarat Quartet.
Barker moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and lives there with his partner, photographer David Armstrong.
www.locusmag.com /2005/Issues/03Barker.html   (882 words)

  
 Clive Barker's Jericho Announced - Kotaku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clive Barker's Jericho deals with the mysterious reappearance of a lost city in a remote desert.
About Undying - Clive Barker had very little to do with that game, and he looks back on it as a bad experience.
Clive agreed and provided some basic direction, but his biggest contribution was "making the main character someone [he'd] want to f***," i.e.
www.kotaku.com /gaming/pc/clive-barkers-jericho-announced-188313.php   (868 words)

  
 Clive Barker [1952 - ] @ EOFFTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Described by many as the Renaissance man of Horror, Clive Barker has had a strange and diverse career within the genre - yet by the 2000s, his writing had largely moved into the realms of fantasy and his directing career appeared to have stalled.
Barker was also honing his skills as a prose writer as a way to keep himself financially afloat during these difficult times.
It would be nice to think that Barker had one more film like Hellraiser in him - the Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae figures look suitably Cenobite-like and one can only hope that if and when it gets made, Barker still has the ability to shock and disturb as much as he did back in 1987.
www.eofftv.com /names/b/bar/barker_clive_main.htm   (1678 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Clive Barker]
Clive was born near Penny Lane, Liverpool, in 1952.
Subsequently, Barker adapted his short story "Cabal" into the film Nightbreed, which he directed, prompting the appearance of a series of Nightbreed comic books published by Marvel.
Barker also recently completed a highly successful run at the Bess Culter Gallery in New York, where he had his first one-man art exhibition.
www.dragoncon.org /people/barkerc.html   (571 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3: Books: Clive Barker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Clive Barker did not want his Books of Blood broken up into individual volumes when they were published, yet that is what happened.
Barker isn't trying to drown the reader in blood as a means to hide any lack of skill on his part, though, because the skill is undeniably there for all to see.
Clive Barker does an excellent job with his short story "Rawhead Rex," a fun and unashamed monster tale that's both shocking and very enjoyable.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425165582?v=glance   (4245 words)

  
 This Just In...News from The Agony Column
Barker wrote powerful prose, and he used horror as a canvas to explore a variety of moods and situations.
I was totally blown away by the combination of Barker's prose and the illustrations by Potter and Morris.
Artists of barker's enormous talent -- he's proved himself as a movie director, as a prose writer, as an artist and a movie producer -- are all too rare.
trashotron.com /agony/news/2004/09-20-04.htm   (2879 words)

  
 SPAWN.COM >> TOYS >> HORROR >> CLIVE BARKER’S TORTURED SOULS 2 -- THE FALLEN
When two veritable masters in the worlds of horror and fantasy - Todd McFarlane and Clive Barker - team up, the results are nothing short of spectacular, as evidenced by 2001's Tortured Souls action figure line.
McFarlane and Barker went back to their drawing boards to come up with a new series of figures even more twisted than the first.
Clive Barker's Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen ™ and © 2002.
www.spawn.com /toys/series.aspx?series=179   (159 words)

  
 Clive Barker
Clive Barker is the best-selling author of eighteen books, including his first book for children, The Thief of Always.
For four years Mr, Barker has been working on a vast array of paintings to illuminate the text of The Books Of Abarat, over one hundred of which can be found within this first volume.
Barker lives in California with his partner, the photographer David Armstrong, and their daughter, Nicole.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /b/clive-barker   (475 words)

  
 Bloodletters - Clive Barker FAQ
Barker's films and fiction have been a major influence on me; this Frequently Asked Questions file is the result of my readings and research about the man.
Clive Barker, writer, producer, novelist, director, and playwright, was born by Cesarean section at 1:00 am on October 5, 1952, near Penny Lane, Liverpool.
The videotape of Clive Barker's student films was released by a company called Redemption, and is available from a variety of sources, including Amazon.com.
www.bloodletters.com /barker.shtml   (3586 words)

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