One thing Barker absolutely *excels* at is establishing villains who are billed as the ultimate evil and turn out to often not be such, but also not even be the overall antagonists of their respective stories, giving way to some larger evil that's been gestating the whole time.

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Traveller, traveller, tramping home
From foreign places beyond the foam...

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in & for 🎨"Macbeth & the Witches" From Act IV, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, by Thomas Barker of Bath, 1830
🎨"Macbeth & Banquo Meeting the Witches on the Heath" by Théodore Chassériau, 1855

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barker bird from the tiki room! i love drawing tiki room birds and this was a redraw of a piece from 2017. this is. a available on my redbubble as a sticker! https://t.co/ufCwskt8mZ

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I made one of the monsters from Clive Barker's Tortured Souls series for some practice. I used the palette.

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I should expand. Heavy Gear was a big robots game with a singular vision; T8 is a uniquely heady-spirituality (*very* 90s but it's OK) post-apocalypse w/Clive Barkerish monsters that had enslaved humanity and had been fought off but were tbh still *far* too near.
And the art...

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In old lore Bride, the Princess of Summer, is enslaved by the Cailleach, hag goddess of winter. Bride is given snowdrops by kindly Father Winter, which she shows to the hag, who is enraged as they mean her reign is coming to an end. Img: Cicely Barker

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Artist John Bolton has been painting for three decades & has collaborated with some of the most prestigious comic writer, including Neil Gaiman & Clive Barker. His ethereal paintings of horror & fantasy have made his work much sought after by collectors around the globe.

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Candyman is a 1992 supernatural horror film written and directed by Bernard Rose & stars Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, and Vanessa Williams. Based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker.

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Unipiper Art Week Day 6: and Brooke Barker are best known as the brains behind and 'It's Different Every Day' calendar, but here they depict an unmasked Unipiper as part of their zine, 'Interviews with the Twelve Most Interesting People in

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“The Snowdrop Flower Fairy” from Cicely Mary Barker's 'Flower Fairies of the Spring' (London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1923). Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) illustrated and published a total of 168 Flower Fairies between 1923 and 1948. 📚 🌷🧚🏻‍♀️

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What is beautiful horror? Join our A-list of horror authors on a disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness. Feat. Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and many more.

Regret gives way to rebirth: https://t.co/fhjLRCKKRn

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I have... a few OCs. Here are two!

Scylla (tiefling) is a TN rogue/cleric who's perpetually grumpy and snarky, but actually tries really hard.

Cirné (human) would be chaotic good, works for a Victorian circus as their barker, and is a generally lovely flirt.

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Bob Barker created 'Get Together' after being approached by the . The organisation aims to bring people together to build a kinder, more tolerant world: https://t.co/vB0VEH6SyC

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