Happy New Year, and welcome to the Clive Barker Podcast! The one and only podcast dedicated to Clive Barker, his many works, those he inspires. This is episode 129, 2016 in review. Releases The Last Illusion Fiddleblack Imaginer 3 Arrow Scarlet Box Region A Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of...READ MORE...
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Presented by Ryan Danhauser of the Clive Barker Podcast, 11/6/2016. This was a stretch-goal for our Kickstarter, “Clive Barker Podcast Presents Fundraiser III: Hell on Earth”. After nine years, I returned to the XBOX 360 version of this game. Does it hold up? Also included, an interview with composter Cris...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: Paul Kane‘s latest novel came out this July 12th, and I’ve had the opportunity to review it thanks to Paul Kane, Rob Power and Rebellion Publishing/Solaris Books. The following will be a spoiler-free review: “Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller” — Clive Barker “Sherlock Holmes and the Servants...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: By this time, some of you have your copy of Imaginer 2. This arrived in the mail some time ago from Seraphim, but only now that all the clamshells and regular editions have been sent out and people are starting to share their pictures of this amazing volume,...READ MORE...
“The fiction of the fantastic brims with metaphors for this condition: tales of people whose cells are protean and souls migrant, people called by mysterious forces to a place they’ve visited in other lives or states; a place never understood’ at least until the moment of crisis’ as their own...READ MORE...
Here’s my video review of Nightbreed the Action Game Amiga version. We agreed to do this for the Kickstarter Campaign, “Clive Barker Podcast Presents Fundraiser III: Hell on Earth” but it was actually kind of fun to play.
!Spoilers! As a small boy I can vividly remember my loving grandmother putting me and my two older brothers to bed too such gruesome Brothers Grimm stories such as Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White. Looking back, I believe if she would’ve known how disturbing they...READ MORE...
Barbie Wilde’s recent anthology of stories “Voices of the Damned” might have been overheard in a demonic confessional in any circle of Hell. These are stories of people who’ve seen things and done things that have put them beyond our nightmares, and pulled through. Published by SST – Short, Scary Tales...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: Today I bring you an amazing soundtrack that was created to score the fine documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (previously on the Barkercast blog), composed by Lito Velasco (Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead). This...READ MORE...
Barbie Wilde’s new novel Voices of the Damned has recently been nominated for Best Short Story Collection by This Is Horror Awards 2015. This a very deserving nomination and everyone here at the podcast wishes Barbie the best of luck in winning this award. We’ll place our votes for sure....READ MORE...
As many of you know Clive Barker’s work has always contained a high level of eroticism, and his most recent book Tonight Again: Tales of Love, Lust, and Everything in Between is his most sexually frank novel to date. This is a different side of Clive’s writing that I’ve never...READ MORE...
Paul Kane has become one of my favorite writers of late. I feel ashamed that I’ve come across his written work so late in the game, but like they say there’s no better time than the present. After reading his wonderful short story collection Monsters, I quickly followed that up...READ MORE...
RED Evil takes on many forms. This is something Rachael Daniels, a lowly care worker, is about to find out . . . personally. Because something is roaming the streets of the city where she lives, something with a taste for human blood: sweet, red blood. Something that can be...READ MORE...
Hello Friends: Christopher Young‘s “The Hellbound Heart” is lightning in a bottle; it’s one of those compositions that crosses that line that separates music and feeling, and fuzzies the boundaries entirely. It starts with this mellifluous, smoky flute fantasy that ties us up in ethereal knots and carries us into...READ MORE...
“If they’ve got the negative you know I’m sure they’ll put it on some Bluray extra sometime somewhere, and then you too will be able to say to everybody,”Yeah it was crap.” – Peter Atkins After watching the deleted ‘Surgeon Scene’ from Hellbound: Hellraiser II I can see why writer Peter Atkins...READ MORE...