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== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Film/Lord Of Illusions|Lord Of Illusions]]''
* ''[[The Midnight Meat Train]]''
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Literature/The Books Of Blood|The Books Of Blood]]: Volumes 1-3 and 4-6''
* ''[[Literature/The Hellbound Heart|The Hellbound Heart]]'' (the novella the first ''[[
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* ''Cabal'' (the book on which ''Nightbreed'' was based)
* ''[[Literature/The Damnation Game|The Damnation Game]]''
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* ''[[Weaveworld]]''
* ''[[Literature/The History Of The Devil|The History Of The Devil]]''
* ''[[Mister B. Gone
* ''[[Literature/Galilee|Galilee]]''
== [[Video Games]] ==
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=== Tropes featured in [[Clive Barker]]'s body of work include: ===
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* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - Indeed, in the second novel of ''Abarat,'' it seems that Barker can only keep a certain number of characters alive at any given point, so for every new character introduced, another is cleanly hacked away.
* [[Author Filibuster]] - In ''[[
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] - The Barbarossas and The Gearys in ''Galilee''
* [[The Blank]] - The Engineer in ''The Hellbound Heart''.
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* [[Humans Are Bastards]] - Stories combine fantastic and supernatural evil with the evil and cruelties that humans perpetrate against each other.
** Consider, for example, that the true villains of the novella ''The Hellbound Heart'' (basis for the [[Hellraiser]] movies) are {{spoiler|Frank and Julia, wretched excuses for human beings (Frank even moreso than Julia)}}, not the Cenobites.
* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]] (''[[Zero Punctuation|Clive Barker's]] [[
* [[Magical Land]] - Most of his novels deal with an alternate reality or more than one realm, which maybe be accessible through paintings, rugs, [[Hellraiser|complex toy boxes]] or the like.
* [[No Accounting for Taste]] - A lot of marriages have long since gone sour after the couple has been together for many years, whereas romantic relationships where the man and woman have just met will be full of love and the two will struggle against all odds to come together. This isn't always the case, but it's common enough in his stories to be worth mentioning.
** Also worth mentioning is that an old couple doesn't even need to be officially married to fall apart. In ''Mister B Gone'', the two {{spoiler|demons}} who are described as having a relationship ''similar'' to an old married couple end up separating.
* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]] - Both ''The Thief of Always'' and ''Abarat'' open with the child or pre-teen protagonists in towns like these. ''Abarat'' begins in a town called ''[[Crapsack World|Chickentown]]'', for Christ's Sake, where the place's entire purpose seems to be to [[Butt Monkey|make Candy Quakenbush miserable.]]
* [[Sealed Evil in
** So much so, in fact, that at least in the novella, the Cenobites {{spoiler|make and honor a deal with the protagonist (who has accidentally opened the box, and has no idea what it is or does) to spare her if she can lead them to the novella's REAL villain, who has escaped their clutches}}.
** Also, "Rawhead Rex".
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