He has also created characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been featured in ongoing comics series.īarker was born in Liverpool, the son of Joan Ruby (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. He was also an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.īarker's paintings and illustrations have been shown in galleries in the United States, and have appeared in his books. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first installment of which he also wrote and directed, and the Candyman series. He has since written many novels and other works. Barker at the Science Fiction Museum in 2007Īuthor, film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playwright, painter, illustrator, visual artist, game producer, comic writer and comic artistĬlive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.
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