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Time for a periodic look back at some of the things we’ve added to our shelves here in recent months!

Foreign editions of movies include recent releases of Nightbreed and Lord of Illusions in France as well as older VHS releases of Hellraiser III and Candyman from Hong Kong and South Korea respectively.

Guy Astic, who also appears in the French Lord of Illusions Blu-ray extras, has two books of essays on horror, featuring Kirsty and the Chatterer on the cover of volume one.

Amongst the magazine format publications come two career overviews of Clive’s work - in the French Mad Movies and the Italian Nocturno - while Candyman features in HorrorHound and Shock Horror. Lire magazine in France interviews Clive whilst Darkside Books continue publishing beautiful editions of Clive’s titles with The Forbidden and the first Books of Blood volume from Brazil.

Scared Sacred is a collection of essays on religion in horror films published by House of Leaves Publishing and sports a foreword by Doug Bradley.

A couple of photos from the August 1995 Los Angeles premiere of Lord of Illusions sit alongside one of the October 1986 cast of the London production of The Secret Life of Cartoons.

Daniele Serra’s new art book has an introduction by Clive and, at the back, Cemetery Dance’s lettered The Damnation Game is an impressive new edition.

The print at the back of Exiled Mummy is one of more than 25 available now in Clive’s Threadless store at https://clivebarker.threadless.com/ along with shirts, mugs and more…

It’s been a quiet year in publications from us and Clive but we have our collective heads buried in a number of projects that we’re looking forward to having more news on in coming months!

As we get back to work this week after the Christmas break, we've got plenty to look forward to in 2018...

We're delighted to be continuing to release titles in the new series of Clive's play scripts as affordable paperbacks. It's been great to hear all the positive comments about The Magician and The History of the Devil - a huge thank you to everyone who has ordered them (and we hope to see productions springing up worldwide!).

Our next two titles are Crazyface and Hunters in the Snow, set for publication in a few weeks' time.

Crazyface was written by Clive in 1982 for the Cockpit Youth Theatre in London and centres around the fool Tyl Eulenspiegel as he stumbles across a secret that nations are prepared to kill for.

Hunters in the Snow has never before been published and is a play from 1973 inspired by the works of Breugel. It includes a character called The Dutchman, originally played by Doug Bradley, that Clive would later see echoes of in the dialogue and bearing of Hellraiser's lead cenobite, Pinhead.

And... we'll be adding many more images from the Archive to the gallery here, with a programme to add at least one new image each and every day this month! Leading off today is a double with an FX storyboard from Hellraiser: Bloodline and the cover of a US presskit for Galilee.

In the meantime, we continue to work with Clive on the Imaginer art books - we'll have a shipping update for Imaginer 5 later this month...

Here's to a great 2018!

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