Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

4 through 6 were publiClive Barkerd in the U. Barker said in a December 2008 online interview (publiClive Barkerd March 2009) that he had polyps in his throat which were so severe that a doctor told him he was taking in ten percent of the air he was supposed to have been getting. According to the Revelations website the collection includes "introductions to both his own work and the works of others newspaper and magazine articles tributes and appreciations and other contributions to books".

Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which establiClive Barkerd him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.