Archive Gallery Images — The Clive Barker Archive

1985 London Film Festival - Official Programme

Festival Programme - Front cover of the A4 sized, 216 page, official programme for the 1985 London Film Festival. Underworld, Clive’s first screenplay to be made into a feature length movie, directed by George Pavlou, screened on 29 November. LFF, 1985.

The Damnation Game - Sales Material

Publisher’s Sales Material - Fold-out promotional sales brochure for booksellers to promote the US paperback release of The Damnation Game. Produced by Charter / The Berkley Publishing Group, 1988.

The Thief of Always

Korean edition of Clive’s The Thief of Always, with the cover featuring a coloured version of his original black and white internal art. Published by GoldenBough / KCC, 2002.

The Nightbreed Chronicles - MS

Manuscript - Introduction to The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1989, cover page.

The Nightbreed Chronicles - MS

Manuscript - Introduction to The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1989, page one.

The Nightbreed Chronicles - MS

Manuscript - Introduction to The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1989, page two.

The Nightbreed Chronicles - MS

Manuscript - Introduction to The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1989, page three.

The Nightbreed Chronicles - TS

Typescript - Introduction to The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1989, page one.

The Sandman: The Doll's House

Book Cover - Front cover of the first hardback edition of Neil Gaiman’s collected issues 8 to 16 of The Sandman, to which Clive contributes an introduction. Published by DC Comics, 1995.

The Sandman: The Doll's House

Book Cover - Rear cover of the first hardback edition of Neil Gaiman’s collected issues 8 to 16 of The Sandman, to which Clive contributes an introduction. Quotes on the back cover from Clive, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell and Mikal Gilmore. Published by DC Comics, 1995.

The Forbidden - MS

Manuscript - Page 81 of The Forbidden, 1984.

The Forbidden - MS

Manuscript - Page 82 of The Forbidden, 1984.

The Forbidden - TS

Typescript - Hand-amended 1984 typescript, page 44.

The Forbidden - TS

Typescript - Hand-amended 1984 typescript, page 45.

The Forbidden - TS

Typescript - Hand-amended 1984 typescript, page 46.

Fangoria's Best Horror Films

Book Cover - Front cover of the hardback edition of Anthony Timpone’s collection of articles from Fangoria. Pinhead, Butterball and Chatterer from Hellraiser are pictured alongside Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Carrie, Chucky and a Gremlin. Starlog Communications / Crescent Books, 1994.

The Great and Secret Show

Advert - Printed plate design for a proposed advert by Collins for The Great and Secret Show. Cover art by Manuel San Julian for the UK first edition. Collins, August 1989.

Otis and Clay MS

Manuscript - Otis and Clay backstory for publication in The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1990 (page 1 of 2).

Otis and Clay TS

Typescript - Otis and Clay backstory typed up on Nightbreed production headed paper for publication in The Nightbreed Chronicles, 1990.

The Thief of Always - Publisher's Press Material

Press Material - Free staple-bound sample chapter of The Thief of Always, complete with illustrations. Produced as part of a sales package by HarperCollins Publishers in the UK, 1992.

Abarat II - MS

Manuscript - poem from Prologue, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, 2004.

Abarat II

Book - Illustrated poem from Prologue to Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, HarperCollins Children's Books, 2004.

Weaveworld - Publisher's Press Material

Press Material - Part of Collins' promotional material ahead of its UK publication of Weaveworld, 1987 (page 1 of 2).

The Scarlet Gospels MS

Manuscript - The Last Hellraiser Story, first pass, 2004.

The Scarlet Gospels - TS

Typescript - Hand-amended April 2005 typescript.

The Scarlet Gospels - TS

Typescript - Hand-amended April 2005 typescript.

Night Visions 3 Press Material

Press Material - Advert for Dark Harvest's third volume of the Night Visions series, edited by George R.R. Martin, containing The Hellbound Heart. World Fantasy Convention booklet, 1986.

Night Visions 3 - Limitation Page

Limitation page - for the Night Visions 3 collection, edited by George R. R. Martin. Signed by the editor, illustrator Stephen Gervais and the contributors, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle and Clive. Contains The Hellbound Heart. This is from a P/C copy of the limited first edition published by Dark Harvest, 1986.

Galilee - Publisher's Press Material

Press Material - Front fold-out cover of a promotional sales brochure for Clive's novel, Galilee. Produced by HarperCollins US, 1998.

Mister B. Gone - Publisher's Press Material

Press Material - Promotional sales brochure (enclosed in a faux wax-sealed envelope) for the US release of Mister B. Gone. Produced by HarperCollins, 2007

The Great and Secret Show - Promotional Material

Promotional Material - Cardboard display standee to accompany the release of The Great and Secret Show. Supplied to bookstores by HarperCollins US, 1989. Art credit: Kirk Reinert.

The Great and Secret Show - MS

Manuscript - Title page of The Great and Secret Show, 1988.

Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

Japanese edition of Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, by Stephen Jones, published by BBC Worldwide, through The English Agency (Japan), 1997.

The Midnight Meat Train - Limitation Page

Limitation page for The Midnight Meat Train short story, ultra-deluxe edition. With original sketch by Clive Barker, published by Dark Regions Press, 2014.

Weaveworld - Press Material

Press Material - UK press release for Weaveworld, Collins, 1987.

The Essential Clive Barker - Press Material

Advert - HarperCollins Publishers' plate for advert in the New Yorker, 1999.

The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies - Limitation Page

Limitation page for The Painter, The Creature and The Father of Lies, edited by Phil and Sarah Stokes, with artwork by Clive Barker, Earthling Publications, 2011.

Heaven's Reply

Box File - Clive's master file for the unpublished novella, Heaven's Reply, set in the Hellraiser universe, 2010.

The Fantasy Sampler

The Fantasy Sampler - A paperback of 'New Fantasy from Ace and Berkley Books' produced for the 1985 World Fantasy Convention in Tucson and containing The Book of Blood. The Berkley Publishing Group, 1985.

Books of Blood - Press Kit

Promotional Material - Folder of press material ahead of the US release of The Books of Blood. The Berkley Publishing Group, 1986.

Imajica - promotional sample

Promotional Material - Free staple-bound sample chapter of Imajica released ahead of the publication of the UK paperback. Produced by FontanaPaperbacks, 1992.

The Hellbound Heart / Imajica Press Material

Press Material - Harper Collins UK press advert for The Hellbound Heart paperback and the hardback release of Imajica, 1991.

The Books of Blood Portfolio - Limitation Page

Art Portfolio - Limitation page for a portfolio of artwork from the 1987 Scream / Press limited editions of The Books of Blood volumes IV - VI. Signed by Clive Barker and artist Harry O. Morris, published 2004.

Imajica - MS

Manuscript - Page 4 of Clive's 4,137 page handwritten final draft of Imajica. 1990.

The Weird Fiction Review

Issue Six of The Weird Fiction Review recreated the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper cover to assemble its chosen seventy three Giants of Weird Fiction. Clive appears on the right hand side and, inside, is presented in conversation with Peter Atkins. Centipede Press, 2015.

Revelations

Book Cover - Cover design for the US limited edition of Douglas E. Winter’s anthology Revelations (known as Millennium in the UK) which includes Clive’s Chiliad story split into two bookend pieces.
Cover art is Clive’s Man On A Hill (second version).
CD Publications 1997

Weaveworld - phone card

Weaveworld - One of five refractive etch design phone card samples, each one using a piece of Tim White’s artwork. The $20 card featured his cover illustration for the UK edition of Weaveworld. Champs Manufacturing Inc., 1994.

Omen - Horror Journal

Omen - the second volume of the annual German horror journal, produced by the publisher Festa Verlag. The paperback volume includes an illustrated interview with Clive and an article - The Art of Clive Barker - both by Paula Guran. Festa Verlag, 2005.

The Inhuman Condition - Proofs

Proofs - Advance bound proofs for Poseidon’s first US edition of The Inhuman Condition (originally published as Clive Barker’s Books of Blood Volume Four). Poseidon Press, 1986.

Everville - Sales Material

Sales Material - Promotional sales brochure for booksellers to promote the UK release of Everville. Produced by HarperCollins, 1994.

Everville - Publisher's Press Material

Press Material - One photo shoot, two headshots. Part of HarperCollins' promotional material ahead of the publication of Everville - HarperCollins UK selects the left-hand shot and HarperCollins US selects the right-hand from a series of portraits by Lance Staedler, 1994.

A Life in the Cinema - Limitation Page

Limitation page - for A Life in the Cinema by Mick Garris. Internal and cover art was supplied by Clive, as featured in this signed Artist’s Presentation Edition. Published by Gauntlet Press, 2000.

A Life in the Cinema

Book Cover - Cover design for the trade edition of Mick Garris’s A Life in the Cinema which features Clive’s cover and internal artwork. Published by Gauntlet Press, 2000.

Abarat: Absolute Midnight

Book Cover - The back cover of Abarat’s third volume, Absolute Midnight, in its hardback first edition.
HarperCollins, 2011.

Clive Barker: Illustrator

Book Cover - The back cover of the first volume of Illustrator, featuring detail from Clive’s cover artwork for the first volume of the Books of Blood. Arcane / Eclipse, 1990.

Clive Barker: Illustrator

Page Proof - The printers’ proof of page 16 of the first volume of Illustrator. Arcane / Eclipse, 1990.

Abarat - Four and Five

Photograph - Fourteen files of in-progress material for Books Four and Five of the Abarat, laid out on Clive Barker’s desk in November 2020.

1992 London Film Festival - Official Programme

Festival Programme - Inside pages of the A5 sized, 132 page, official programme for the 1992 London Film Festival. Candyman, directed by Bernard Rose, screened on 19 November. LFF, 1992. Review by Nigel Floyd.