Clive Barker (Liverpool, England, October 5, 1952) is a writer, film director, and visual artist. He studied English and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Barker is one of the most acclaimed authors in the genres of horror and fantasy. He began his career with various horror stories compiled in the series Libros de Sangre and the Faustian novel "The book of curses". Later he moved to the modern fantasy genre with touches of horror.1 Barker's most characteristic style is the idea that there is an underlying and hidden world that coexists with ours (an idea he shares with Neil Gaiman), the role of Sexuality in the supernatural and the construction of coherent, complex and detailed mythologies.