Clive Barker

It's easy to forget just how fragile we are, but every now and again an event occurs that serves as a reminder that we should live every day to its fullest. Case in point: what happened to Clive Barker a couple of weeks ago.

Those of you keeping up with the Hellraiser comic series from Boom! Comics know that at least in print the Clive Barker based series is excelling. Simply put, it's fantastic, and so are the new covers for Issue 8, which reveal for the first time a female Pinhead.

Feeling a bit left out since Clive Barker released the third book in his amazing Abarat series because you never got around to checking out Books 1 and 2? Well, we've got you covered because Dread Central has two sets of the first three books - Abarat; Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; and Abarat: Absolute Midnight - to give away to a pair of lucky winners!

Beware, kids. Beware. After a five-year hiatus Clive Barker is returning to the young adult audience with the release of Absolute Midnight, the third book in the Abarat series, on September 27th. With more than 125 full-color illustrations done by Barker himself, Absolute Midnight is a beautiful addition to the New York Times best-selling series.

While Pinhead and the Hellraiser films haven't exactly been hitting the horror home run that they should over the last few years, it seems that the only place you can find a good Cenobite-laden tale is in print.

If there's one thing that we truly miss in our genre, it's having the great Clive Barker making movies. Sure there have been a few decent adaptations of his work, but there's nothing like having the man himself being the one calling the shots and creating such sights to show us.

Who knows how the Doug Bradley-less Hellraiser: Revelations is going to turn out. Not that Bradley, for whatever reason, was in much of the latter sequels anyway, but still! At least we have Pinhead on the page to turn to if things go awry! From the Press Release

Creation Entertainment has added three new guests to its already packing lineup for the Weekend of Horrors, being held Friday, October 15 through Sunday, October 17, at the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel.

We've been waiting endlessly for the great Clive Barker to finish up the final chapter in his literary Hellraiser saga, The Scarlet Gospels, which finds Pinhead going one-on-one with Harry D'Amour, and now finally ... there's light at the end of the tunnel.

There's just NOTHING like a good old fashioned Clive Barker penned tale of the macabre and terror.

Fans of Clive Barker's Books of Abarat have had a long wait since the 2004 publication of Book #2 in the series, Days of Magic, Nights of War, but the author/artist has revealed when we might see Book #3, Absolute Midnight. Unfortunately it's still at least a year or so away.

Could it be? Could it actually be? Studios usually never listen to fans, but horror fans? We're a rowdy bunch, and we like to get stuff done. As a result ...

We reported a few months ago that the lost footage from Clive Barker's Nightbreed had been found. Shortly after that an announcement came that the uncut print of the film would be shown to fans in attendance at the March HorrorHound convention in Indianapolis. The film was shown to a standing room only crowd and we've got the goods on what was added!

In Anthony DiBlasi's adaptation of Clive Barker's short story "Dread", one of the characters is an artist, and in anticipation of Dread's DVD release (along with the rest of this year's Horrorfest entries), one lucky person can have his or her portrait painted by Nicole Balzarini, the real artist behind Quaid (Shaun Evans)'s paintings in the film.

With the seventh entry in Lionsgate’s Saw franchise currently shooting in Toronto, Canada in preparation for its October 22, 2010 theatrical release, Dread caught up with the flick’s co-scribe Patrick Melton to chat about the film as well as the other projects he and long-time collaborator Marcus Dunstan are working on.