“I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”

British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist

Clive Barker is a British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. He became widely known for the Books of Blood and for work that helped establish him as a leading horror author. His stories and ideas have been adapted for film, especially through the Hellraiser and Candyman series. Across his work, he is associated with horror in literature and on screen, and with a creative practice that extends beyond writing into filmmaking and visual art.