Magazine Covers

Eye catching and enticing - the magazine covers that encourage casual newsstand sales have proved hugely receptive to the subtle lures of Pinhead, Boone, various Nightbreed and others - including the visage of the creator himself... Clive Barker Covers ...Ahh, the man himself... Pinup to some, Pinhead's creator to others, if we ever see the words 'Renaissance Man' casually draped over another cover it will be time to despair of journalistic independence and imagination... 4 Front - Vol 2 No 18, 30 April - 13 May 1997 There's obviously not enough muscletone being revealed in this contemplative shot to make it as the main cover boy of this Los Angeles local gay mag. Contains an interview with Barker. 10 Per Cent - March/April 1995 What can we say? The darling of the gay press proudly standing astride his cover. Contains an interview with Barker Au Courant - Vol 13 No 43, 29 August - 4 September 1995 Firmly pinning its sexual orientation to the mast, this Philadelphia gay magazine screams about Barker being the 'Queen of Terror'... Contains an interview with Barker The Barker - 1994 The Voice of Dark Carnival Books in Berkeley, California. Includes the short story, Animal Life. Bloodsongs - No 6, March 1995 Nestled just underneath the picture of Nix, Barker inspects the Lord of Illusions set in this Australian horror fiction 'zine with a Barker interview and a review of Salome and The Forbidden. Book And Magazine Collector - No 68, November 1989 A bibliography and what purports to be an interview with Barker but may simply be extracts from previously published interviews. Cinefantastique - Vol 26 No 3, April 1995 The Clive Barker issue, containing a number of articles and interviews with Barker. City Paper, Philadelphia, No 633, 11 - 17 July 1997 Celebrating Barker's involvement in a local gay and lesbian film festival, this Philadelphia weekly paper has an interview with Barker and a psychadelic cover design. Critical Wave, No 6, 1988 An account of a set visit to Pinewood Studios during extra effects shots and insert scenes on Hellbound prompted Critical Wave to show Barker halfway to Pinhead-isation on their cover. Doom, No 0, June 1995 The premiere issue of Peter Harald Zahn's German horror and fantasy magazine features a translated version of a World of Fandom interview, with a great cover image of a relaxed Barker on set with a doomed Nix cultist. Fantasy Zone - No 6, March 1990 A set visit to Pinewood halfway through principal photography includes an interview with Barker. Film Threat - No 19, 1989 JK Potter converts Barker into Pinhead for Film Threat's first Barker interview. Film Review - March 1993 An interview with Barker as a photo from a Nightbreed set visit squeezes onto the front cover. Horror Magazine - No 7, 1996 An interview with Barker as well as the transcript of his session at the World Horror Convention. HX Magazine, No 338, 27 February 1998 Using what looks to be a photo from the same shoot as the one on Horror No 7, Barker is interviewed in this 'totally biased politically incorrect party paper'. Lambda Book Report, Vol.10, Issue 3, October 2001 Coldheart Canyon and the Abarat come under scrutiny in this interview. Locus - No 299, December 1985 Now here's a cheesy early photo! Check out the Eighties Miami-Vice-style jacket sleeves pushed up the arms, hmmm... This shot of the big winners at the 1985 World Horror Convention is the only Barker content in this one. Locus - No 306, July 1986 Front page billing for news about Barker's upcoming projects and a single line of interview. Locus - No 411, April 1995 What a difference a decade makes! The hair is slicked, the shirt expensive - this is a man comfortable with his nineties image. Contains an interview with Barker. Locus - No 529, March 2005 Yet another decade on and the worldwide success of Abarat spurs Locus to feature Clive and his work yet again. Few photos now show him without the backdrop of his painting, which has become the backbone of his written work. Contains a feature interview with Barker. Los Angeles Times, 12 August 1995 Peering out from between Blue Vision and Toothman, the Los Angeles Times interviews Barker on his Laguna Beach art exhibition. Lost Souls - September-December 2000 Containing a new interview with Barker from questions posed by the Lost Souls themselves, a demonic Barker scares away the faint of heart. Lost Souls - April 2002 Carrying the trademark 'Confessions' interview with Barker, this (final) issue makes use of the stylish Mikiholo photo cover for the UK version of The Dark Fantastic. Lost Souls - November 2002 A great cover for Demoriam's first Lost Souls e-zine in which there's a transcript of a signing tour Barker Q&A and an interview from the HarperCollins Abarat website. Marvel Age - No 126, July 1993 The Barkerverse is unveiled in this Barker interview. Barker smiles on his creations like a benign God of the Razorline on the cover. Midweek - 10 December 1992 A free London magazine containing a Barker interview. Nexus - No 8, October 1988 The Journal of Imaginative Media reports an evening at the National Film Theatre as an interview and has Barker on the cover with Wes Craven. The One - No 25, October 1990 With Barker squeezed down in the bottom right corner of the cover, this computer games magazine features a review of Ocean's two Night breed games and an interview with Barker. The Orange County Register: Show, 18 October 1987 The Orange County Register interviews Barker on switching from Hellraiser to Weaveworld... Other Dimensions - No 1, Summer 1993 An interview with Barker in the debut issue of this Necronomicon Press magazine. Outlook, No 13, December 1990 / January 1991 Barker gives an interview for the magazine which offers its readers "A new Outlook for a New Age". Penny Blood, Issue 2, Spring 2005 An unusual blending of a promotional photograph of Clive with his portrait of Leeman Vol give this new horror magazine its cover art to herald an interview within. The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, 12 May 1996 Section D of the Sunday newspaper in Eugene one May showed a smiling Barker during a signing at that weekend's World Horror Convention with short interview extracts. Science-Fiction Magazine, No 31, February 2003 This French magazine has possibly the smallest ever Barker cover appearance - look hard, he's there in glorious black and white between the "c" and the "i" of "Science" in the title. No, honestly. There's an interview from 2001 inside. Screen Monsters - Special No 2, April 1993 This "Unauthorized" comic book is an illustrated biography written by Ron Rocket. Screens - No 11, March 1988 A Hellbound set visit sees Barker interviewed as he fights for cover space with Dirty Dancing and Buckaroo Banzai. Skeleton Crew - No 3/4, 1988 Artist Dave Carson has added silver tears to our copy of this. Contains an interview and a reprint of Son Of Celluloid in this double issue - as well as critical essays and an interview with the second female cenobite, Barbie Wilde. Speakeasy - No 117, February 1991 John Bolton's artwork heralds interviews with Barker and with Bolton himself. Starlog, No 14, June 2001 Proclaiming that we should "Be very afraid - entering the mind of a horror legend", Starlog's UK edition put a new publicity shot on the cover to promote their 2001 interview. That's Clive! - No 0 The German Clive Barker fanclub's inaugural publication. That's Clive! - No 3 Another take on the 'Barker as Pinhead' theme for this Hellraiser themed issue. That's Clive! - No 6 Well... we're not likely to see a horned Barker given the body of his own demon again any time soon! That's Clive! - No 7, April 1998 The German Clive Barker fanclub featured Ken Meyer Jr.'s Imajica card to accompany their complete card list inside. That's Clive! - Special No 1, March 1999 A special issue of the magazine of the German Clive Barker fanclub featuring contributions from members in the form of essays, stories and poetry. The Times, Weekend Section - 26 October 2002 Dwight Garner's 2002 interview from the New York Times gets a reprint in the UK, as the front page of the Weekend section. Barker lounges in a comfy chair surrounded by Abarat oils. Underscope - 1995 A 1995 interview graced by a smiling, successful author. USA Today Weekend Supplement - 9-11 October 1987 Promoting his US Weaveworld signing tour, Barker swaps the trademark cigar for a cigarette as he muses the "28.3 million readers every weekend" about to read his interview. USA Today Weekend Supplement, 24-26 June 1994 Back for the readers of USA Today, this time with Animal Life as short fiction. Writer's Digest - March 1991 Looking nothing like a 'terror-master', Barker gives away tips in this interview. Writer's Monthly, Vol 9 No 2, November 1992 The Imajica-era press photo gets star billing as Barker is interviewed for this UK writers' magazine. Hellraiser Magazine Covers | Nightbreed Magazine Covers | Other Film & TV Magazine Covers Interviews Index | Films Index | Home page This page has been created for information and entertainment purposes only. All quotes remain the copyright of the original owners.