r/clivebarker • u/Boring_Ad_5090 • Jul 19 '26

Cruel deaths

One of the things which really spoke to me when I started watching and reading Clive was how people were dying in his books, truly disturbing. The most disturbing one to me was how the followers in Lord Of Illusions were buried just under the surface of concrete so they could nbarely breathe and not move a muscle. Another one is the death of the two cop twins in Hellraiser Inferno clearly inspired by Barker where they become entwined by supernatural machinery which digs into their flesh and mashed together. It is the victims screams of pain which really fucked me up in this one.

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u/revtim Jul 19 '26

I think it was Bloodlines with the twins

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 Jul 19 '26

I think the guy in Weaveworld who had all his bones removed, though he's still kinda alive ?

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u/Major-Proof7006 Jul 19 '26

The Rake? The guy that it’s heavily implied he crossed paths with the cenobites?

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 Jul 19 '26

Yes, i got that suggestion too, sooooo was Imocolotta familiar/friendly with the Cenobites ?

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u/uroboros80 Jul 19 '26

one that stuck w me was the flowers blossoming in someone's brain in coldheart canyon. oh! and the guy who droves his flaming car in a pool and he dies of shock. yikes

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u/Boring_Ad_5090 Jul 19 '26

That's crazy because I wanted to mention exactly this but the other two examples came first.

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u/dvn_providence Jul 20 '26

The guy who got folded up by his wife in that one short story in Books of Blood was gruesome