The Clive Barker Podcast

Fellow Clive Barker fans, we have to apologize. With planning for our 200th episode , the upcoming Kickstarter, the recent interview with Sorcha Ni Fhlainn,  and our intrepid news guy, Rob being under the weather, we've gotten behind on the news.  Somebody unplugged all our fax machines and 300 baud modems for the Reef!  Today we're going to fix that, and get as caught up as we possibly can.  So h...

Thanks for subscribing and listening to the Clive Barker Podcast, the only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker. In this episode, 202, we get to talk with Dr. Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, editor and contributor to Clive Barker Dark Imaginer, a compilation of academic essays that span Clive's work from the 80's all the way to The Scarlet Gospels. You might be able to imagine how fun it was fo...

Hello Friends: Welcome to episode 201— an unexpected Halloween chat we recorded on Oct 31st with Nina and FX artist Ed Martinez, who were with us on the podcast before and who've been long time Hellraiser fans, worked on Coenobium for years and were always a big part of the Hellraiser community. So when we asked them if they would give us a message for episode 200, they mentioned the work Ed had d...

Thanks for listening and subscribing to 200 episodes of the Clive Barker Podcast! That's right, 200 episodes, and to celebrate we bugged as many friends of the podcast, past guests and listeners as we could.  Do you hear your voice in here?  We've come a long way since our humble beginnings and Occupy Midian, and to celebrate, here's a painful quick snippet of our first episode…  Wait, don't go. ...

Thanks for listening and subscribing to the Clive Barker Podcast -- the only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker. This is a news episode, with Jose, myself and Markus going over the latest from the reef, including signed Abarat posters for sale, some awards for Dark Ditties, more info on the Hybrid Exibition and there's a "Midian Configuration." Hold onto your hats! From the Reef...

Prerequisites for listening to this bonus content.  1) Listen to Episode 198 of the Clive Barker Podcast. 2) Watch  Dark Ditties on Amazon Prime Video.  Then  you can listen to Ryan's spoiler questions removed from Episode 198.  

Thanks for subscribing and listening to the Clive Barker Podcast, the only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker and related works. In this, episode 198, Jose and I talk with Cast and Crew from Dark Ditties series, now available on Amazon Prime Video. If you haven't seen episode 1, The Offer (a veritable Hellraiser 2 cast reunion) and episode 2, Mrs. Wiltshire, please do so!  We kep...

For this Tuesday Tunes I wanted to share a song by the English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth called "Sweetest Maleficia" from their eighth studio album Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder.  The album is based upon the French serial killer Gilles de Rais who fought for the French army under Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years' War. He was very close with her, but when she was burned at the stake...

Have you ever been so disturbed by a toy that it actually made you look away? That's what Clive Barker's Tortured Souls figurines did to me when I worked at Suncoast many moons ago. And thanks to McFarlane Toys they're coming back to "torture" us again. At this year's New York Comic Con artist and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane revealed that his toy company is going back to the basics by reviving no...

Paul Kane is one of the busiest writers that I know of. It's like the old saying goes, "If you're going to be a writer, you better do a lot of writing." And that's what Paul does. In his latest offering called Dark Mirages: Film & TV Vol. One , he's put together a collection of scripts/film & TV treatments with one of them being the unused Hellraiser V treatment by Stephen Jones and Michael Marsha...

I know it's a little early for a Christmas announcement with Halloween just around the corner, but when Clive Barker is involved it doesn't matter what holiday it is. At this year's Brighton's original Ghost Stories for Christmas- 'Now We are Six' , Barker's short story  The Departed will be apart of the horrific tales to be theatrically performed that will also include stories by classic horror a...

For our fellow collectors out there, Tom Holland's Terror Time just added a large Clive Barker collection from a fan. There's a great selection of autographed movies, books, comics and more.  Check it out and see if there's something you're missing. I've got my eye on the Candyman 2 Laser Disc. And I think the Scarlet Gospels Hardback and Hardback bundle are a great deal. Let us know in the commen...

For our fellow collectors out there, Tom Holland's Terror Time just added a large Clive Barker collection from a fan. There's a great selection of autographed movies, books, comics and more.  Check it out and see if there's something you're missing. I've got my eye on the Candyman 2 Laser Disc. And I think the Scarlet Gospels Hardback and Hardback bundle are a great deal. Let us know in the commen...

Thanks for listening to the Clive Barker Podcast. We hope you've subscribed and rated us! In this, episode 197, Jose and I go over the news, including a rare short story popping up again, Clive Barker art on a Netflix show, Hellraiser The Toll audio book with a surprising cast and the return of Tortured Souls! We want to thank all the people who have agreed to help us with transcribing interviews....

If you remember Mark Miller's novella, Hellraiser The Toll .  It catches up with Kirsty and leads up to The Scarlet Gospels. This month it will be released as an audio book, but the best news is the cast.  The book will be Narrated by film maker Tom Holland (writer of Fright Night and Child's Play), starring Mali Elfman as Kirsty, Pete Atkins (writer of Hellraiser II and III, and many novels and s...

We mentioned this briefly on Episode 190 of the Clive Barker Podcast , but there's another charity anthology, also featuring Clive Barker's halloween story, "The Departed". We had previously mentioned it will be available in the charity anthology  Ghost Stories for Christmas .  It is also coming soon to another anthology as well. This anthology, Dark Places Evil Faces Volume II will be available o...

Thanks for subscribing and listening to The Clive Barker Podcast. The only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker. In this episode. In this episode., number 196, Jose and I discuss Hunters in the Snow, a previously unreleased play that you can order from the Clive Barker Archive. Do you have yours yet?  There will be some spoilers, but we love if you can read the play and send us you...

  The Clive Barker Podcast wants to say Happy Birthday to Ed Martinez!  To Celebrate, go check out " Lil' Hellraisers: A Papa George And Duckie Adverture " written and directed by Nina Arlene Martinez and produced by Ed Martinez.  Bunny has opened the puzzle box, and it's up to Papa George and Duckie to rescue him.  We love the visual style and narration of this project.  It's als got some flashy...

Thanks for joining us at the Clive Barker Podcast. The only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker. In this, episode 195, Jose and go over the Clive Barker news from the reef. What does Tony Todd think of the Candyman rumor? There's a new art exhibition and Dark Ditties 1 and 2 are available to watch! From The Reef More Hellraiser on the Way? Hellraiser and Hellbound Screenings  Cliv...

By Jose Leitao,   Hello Friends: 31 years ago,  The Prince Charles Cinema  hosted a charity premiere of Clive Barker's Hellraiser. The very next day it would hit cinemas in the UK. The US would have to wait an extra week to see the cenobites fill the screen as mysterious apparitions in an empty room with dark swinging chains from which Frank Cotton hung in pieces. The bare boards of that damp room...

   I wanted to let our listeners know that Clive has been interviewed for the Folsom Street Fair Guide for their September issue. Just click on the link that's provided by Clive Barker: Revelations Facebook page and use the scroll bar to go to page eight where the interview starts. Here's the link to upload the magazine if you want a digital copy for yourself: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/vie...

Thanks for subscribing to the Clive Barker Podcast. The only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker.  In this, episode 194, Jose and Ryan are joined by Markus, and we go over a lot of Clive Barker news including a new interview with Clive in Fight Magazine, convention appearances, the Hellbound soundtrack, screenings, and news about Clive Barker TV shows, Nighbreed and Weaveworld. Pl...

Thanks for joining subscribing and listening to the Clive Barker Podcast. The only podcast dedicated to the imagination of Clive Barker. In this episode, 193, Jose and Ryan (me) talk about Clive's 1998 novel, Galilee. This episode is sponsored by Horrormarketplace.com . Visit their Etsy site for cool horror themed enamel pins and T-shirts. Discussion: Galilee, 1998. Clive Barker (sources) https://...

You can get 40% off on the rare Hellraiser Anthology comics by Seraphim Alumni and Clive himself, Labor Day only  at Tom Holland's Terror Time  Of course the coupon code is good for everything on the site, but we're especially excited about Hellraiser Anthology .  When you get to the site, use the coupon code "laborday" and tell them BarkerCast sent you.  That second part is optional.    Blogpost:...

This past week Clive Barker's final directorial effort Lord of Illusions turned twenty-three. To celebrate the occasion, I wanted to share an older interview with actor Scott Bakula that he did with the website ScreenRealm back in 2016. While most of the conversation centers around the popular show Quantum Leap , he had some very kind words to say about working with Clive and the movie itself. As...