An Interview Listing

We've always wanted to go beyond the wild imagineering on the page, on the screen, on the canvas, and to understand the drivers, see the work in progress, get so far underneath the skin of the creator that, on re-reading or re-viewing, greater subtleties and pleasures could be gleaned. The interviews below are all grist to that mill and, collectively, form a huge raft of commentary and insight into the creative process... The following is as complete a listing of interviews as we have been able to compile. It is, of course, a work in progress and as such is incomplete, so information on all omissions is gratefully received.... Where an interview is listed but there is no quote, it means we know it exists but we don't have a copy (and we'd like one !). Where the full text of the interview is available online, the name of the site is listed. The listing is constantly updated as we become aware of new (and old) additions... Our Exclusive Interviews Are Here... More Candy: Sweetness And Night ~ August 2011 Prevailing Against The Perfect Storm ~ August 2010 Now And In Time To Be ~ January 2010 Only Connect ~ August 2009 The Bleed Between The Apprentice And The Master ~ March 2009 We Are All Imaginary Animals... ~ October 2008 A Skein, A Train: Connections Made, Connections Missed... ~ July 2008 Pivotal Voices: Was, Is And Will Be ~ April 2008 Working In The Midnight Hours... ~ December 2007 Hellfire And The Demonation ~ September 2007 Mister B. ~ June 2007 A Spiritual Retreat ~ March 2007 Pinhead's Progress ~ December 2006 'It's Yours - It Always Was...' ~ October 2006 Sowing The Seeds Of The Story Tree ~ September 2006 You Called, He Came... ~ June 2006 Abarat. Abarat. Abarat. Abarat... Abarat! ~ March 2006 Heaven, Hell And The Dreaming Space Between ~ December 2005 Rummaging Through The Toybox: Plushes, Plagues and Plaudits ~ August 2005 The Lazarus Muse: Nights Of Magic, Days Of Gore ~ June 2005 The Hellbound Art : Memory, Fantasy And Filigree ~ February 2005 There And Back Again : Touring The Abarat ~ November 2004 In Anticipation Of The Deluge : A Moment At The River's Edge ~ July 2004 Abarat: 2B (Or Not 2A)... ~ July 2003 Open Roads... What Price Wonderland? ~ April 2002 Nips And Tucks, Tits And Fucks ~ July 2001 Leitmotifs And Dark Beliefs ~ September 1999 The Good, The Bad And The Light In The Dark ~ November 1998 And The Interview Archive... To 85 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Note that Clive Barker penned essays, introductions, forewords, afterwords etc are listed within the Books section. And here's an unusual one with Pete Atkins... Talking Pleasure And Pain With Pete Atkins by Ade Cattell. And a few words with Imajica illustrator Richard Kirk We've added a section with Barker-related magazine covers here... Hellraiser Covers Nightbreed Covers Other Film and TV Covers Clive Barker Covers Clive Barker Artwork And Photography Covers Our Favourite Titles of Barker Related Articles... Sex in the Attic with Devilhead Slime A review of Hellraiser by Joe Bob Briggs in Datebook, 4 October 1987 Be Flayed... Be Very Flayed An interview with FX maestro Geoff Portass by John Gullidge and John Martin in Samhain Number 9, June/July 1988 Of Highways, Hell and Wonderland A Barker career retrospective by Simon Avery in Skeleton Crew II/III, 1988 The Scouse That Dripped Blood An interview with Peter Atkins by John Martin in Samhain Number 11, October/November 1988 Always a Breedsmaid, Never a Breed Report by John Skipp and Craig Spector on their roles in the filming of Nightbreed, Gorezone Number 12, March 1990 Showcases the Breed and the Bleed but Doesn't Quite Succeed A Nightbreed review by Thomas Doherty in Cinefantastique Volume 21 Number 1, July 1990 Sleeping with the Anima Jung-inspired chapter heading in Suzanne J Barbieri's book Clive Barker - Mythmaker for the Millenium So Many Monsters, So Little Time... Michael Brown's fascinating article which kills those "what questions do you always get asked.." questions in Pandemonium, 1991 Hammering out Hellraiser Homage to Claire Higgins' claw hammer technique by Philip Nutman on his set visit in Fangoria Number 65, July 1987 Sympathy For The Devil S&M discussion between Barker and Michelle Olley in Skin Two Number 10, 1990 - and Michelle obviously loved the title so much that she used it again when she caught up with Clive a decade later in the August 2001 issue of Attitude The Inventor of Techno-Dante The ever resourceful Philip Nutman again, Toxic Horror Number 3, April 1990 Nightbreed - A Load of Old Bosch? Our favourite ! Timothy Robbins on the set of Nightbreed in Fantazia Number 5, October 1990 Alien 3 : A Dire Tribe Dave Hughes - in a 1993 Aliens magazine - word plays on Barker's diatribe against the way that the third Alien movie - which he was asked to direct - turned out... The Fabulous Barker Boy Tom Mayo must have caught a movie or two on the flight over to New York to talk with Barker about Undying for SFX's May 2001 issue L A Gore GQ in December 1992, where Paul Mungo seemed taken aback by Barker the gentleman, but still pulled this great title out of the bag... These Ghoulish Stings Edwin Pouncey gave his Candyman-themed interview in NME in March 1993 this fabulous wordplay... The Future of Horror is Queer It took years for anyone to bastardise Stephen King's overused quote - Jonathan Ross had dubbed Barker 'the Queen of Horror' years before but Brandon Judell finally put it into print in ETC in August 1995 mail us here...please! Home page This page has been created for information and entertainment purposes only. All quotes remain the copyright of the original owners.