Table of Contents
Introduction: ‘To darken the day and brighten the night’: Clive Barker, dark imaginer – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Part I: Origins
1 ‘Visions of another Albion’: the Books of Blood and the horror of 1980s Britain – Darryl Jones
2 ‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’: the Books of Blood and the transformation of the weird – Kevin Corstorphine
3 When fantasy becomes reality: social commentary of 1980s Britain in Clive Barker’s Weaveworld – Edward Timothy Wallington
Part II: Screening Barker
4 The joyless magic of Lord of Illusions – Harvey O’Brien
5 Drawing (to) fear and horror: into the frame of Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train and Dread comic and film adaptations – Bernard Perron
6 Beauty, pain and desire: gothic aesthetics and feminine identification in the filmic adaptations of Clive Barker – Brigid Cherry
Part III: Labyrinths of desire
7 Clive Barker's queer monsters: exploring transgression, sexuality and the other – Mark Richard Adams
8 Breaking through the canvas: towards a definition of (meta)cultural blackness in the fantasies of Clive Barker – Tony M. Vinci
9 ‘A far more physical experience than the cinema affords’: Clive Barker’s Halloween Horror Nights and brand authorship – Gareth James
Part IV: Legacy
10 ‘What price wonderland?’: Clive Barker and the spectre of realism – Daragh Downes
11 Clive Barker’s late (anti-)horror fiction: Tortured Souls and Mister B. Gone’s new myths of the flesh – Xavier Aldana Reyes
12 The Devil and Clive Barker: Faustian bargains and gothic filigree – Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Index