Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 2

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Best-selling author Clive Barker was born in Liverpool. England, and he began his literary career writing, directing and acting for the stage. As a screenwriter, director and film producer, he is credited with the Hellraiser and Candyman pictures, as well as Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions and Gods and Monsters. An accomplished painter and visual artist, Barker has had exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his partner, the photographer, ...
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Best-selling author Clive Barker was born in Liverpool. England, and he began his literary career writing, directing and acting for the stage. As a screenwriter, director and film producer, he is credited with the Hellraiser and Candyman pictures, as well as Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions and Gods and Monsters. An accomplished painter and visual artist, Barker has had exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his partner, the photographer, David Armstrong
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The stories in this uneven anthology come from the Epic comics series of a decade ago, which was inspired by a continuing series of horror movies, all of which originated in Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart. Though the stories are set in different times and countries, they all show human encounters with the Lament Configuration. People who succumb to temptation and manage to solve the puzzle enter the domain of the Cenobites, hideously deformed creatures who inflict eternal suffering on anyone handy. So the fundamental subject throughout each tale is mutilation and pain, not simply death. Superficially, some of the stories resemble the gruesome 1950s horror comics that EC Comics produced with disturbing excellence. A few try to do more by exploring the attraction of s&m themes for a mass audience of Cenobite wannabes. Unfortunately, most of the contributors veer toward gross-out techniques. There is some good art here, as well as some interesting scripts, but they're seldom in the same story. The most successfully unified pieces are "Pleasures of Deception" (script by Phil Nutman; art by Bill Koeb), in which an artist is inspired by the Cenobites to discover a wonderfully new way of seeing reality; and "Cenobite!" (script by Nicholas Vince; art by John Van Fleet), which shows episodes in the life of the kind of man who'd be a willing recruit for this squad of master torturers. Those also, not coincidentally, are among the collection's least clinically graphic. They give readers a chance to reflect on what's going on, not just flinch. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780971024977
  • Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group, LLC
  • Publication date: 10/7/2003
  • Series: Clive Barker's Hellraiser Series , #2
  • Edition description: Not Appropriate For Children
  • Pages: 200
  • Product dimensions: 6.70 (w) x 10.20 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

Canons of Pain 6
Razing Hell Parts 1-3 24
Songs of Metal and Flesh 73
The Pleasures of Deception 89
Cenobite 107
Old Wives' Tale 123
Fury 132
The Blood of a Poet 146
Sheddim 171
Of Love, Cats, and Curiosity 182
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