- Fantasy, Space and time, Fiction, Fantasy fiction
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Clive Barker
- First published
- October 2003
- Pages
- 489
- Publisher
- HarperChildrensAudio, Voyager, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780060280925
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“OTTO HOULIHAN SAT N the dark room and listened to the two creatures who had brought him here a three-eyed thing by the name of Lazaru and its sidekick, Baby Pink-Eye -playing Knock the Devil Down in the corner.”
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the *Books of Blood*, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the *Hellraiser* and *Candyman* series. He was also the executive producer of the film *Gods and Monsters*. Barker's paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries in the United States as well as within his own books. He has created original characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been adapted to
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