![]() There is little mystery about Clive Barker's sudden success. Along the way, Barker became something of a cause ce'le bre, championed in magazines as diverse as Fangoria, Omni, Publishers Weekly, and Andy Warhol's Interview. Barker soon captured a World Fantasy Award and several motion picture contracts his first novel, The Damnation Game, was nominated for England's prestigious Booker Prize and a second trilogy of Books of Blood was commissioned. ![]() The manuscript, divided into three volumes, was published in England in 1984 as Clive Barker's Books of Blood, and its author became horror fiction's hottest property since Stephen King. After reading 50 of the thousand-plus pages, I was convinced that he was right. "You're about to read the most important new horror writer of this decade," Campbell told me. ![]() ![]() DURING A 1983 visit with Britain's leading writer of horror fiction, Ramsey Campbell, I was presented with a mountainous manuscript of short stories by an unpublished Liverpool playright named Clive Barker. ![]()
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