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In the 1980s, Clive Barker burst onto the cultural scene with The Books of Blood, collections of unforgettable tales of horror, depravity, and decadence the likes of which had been seldom seen since the days of Lautr\xe9amont's Les Chants de Maldoror and Huysmans' L\xe0-Bas. In the decades that followed, he went on to create an astounding body of work in fantasy and horror as a writer, artist, and film director. In this episode, author, lecturer, and podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to discuss what is arguably Barker's best-known work, the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, as well as the novella that inspired it, "The Hellbound Heart."

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References

Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
\nClive Barker (dir.), Hellraiser
\nTod Browning (dir.), Freaks
\nClive Barker, \u201cIn the Hills, The Cities\u201d in Books of Blood
\nWes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street
\nAngela Carter, English writer
\nSusan Sontag, \u201cHappenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition\u201d
\nGilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?
\nSturm und Drang, 18th-century artistic movement
\nGayle Rubin, American cultural anthropologist
\nStephen King, It
\nRobert Wise (dir.), The Sound of Music
\nSlavoj Zizek, The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Cinema
\nRobert Wise (dir.), The Haunting
\nDavid Mamet, On Directing Film
\nMark Hedsel and David Ovason, The Zealotor
\nDavid Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive
\nStanley Kubrick, The Shining
\nCoil, Hellraiser Themes
\nBela Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
\nGolden Section, mathematical ratio
\nKevin Williamson,, American screenwriter
\nSusan Sontag, Against Interpretation

Special Guest: Conner Habib.