- Ghost stories, Recluses, Fiction, Actors
Aging star Todd Pickett flees to a secret corner of Hollywood to heal from botched plastic surgery and discovers that his newfound hideaway is in fact haunted by ghosts from the 1920s.
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Classical in form, grave, bleak and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Clive Barker
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 676
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks, HarperTorch, HarperAudio
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007301966
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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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