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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.4.197
Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 06:05 pm:   

From http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/28252

'In other news, acclaimed horror author/artist/director Clive Barker survived a near-death experience having just awoken from a seven-day-long coma.

15 Days ago Barker hit Twitter with the following message: "Dear Friends, I've had some medical issues that have recently forced me away from my beloved desk and into the hospital..." He then vanished for over a week returning to explain that he received "Toxic Shock" from a visit to the dentist that put him into a coma. "In my case the dental work unloaded such a spillage of poisonous bacteria into my blood that my whole system crashed, putting me into a coma. I spent several days in Intensive Care, with a machine breathing for me," said the relieved artist.

"Later, my Doctors said that they had not anticipated a happy ending until I started to fight, repeatedly pulling out the tubes that I was constantly gagging on. After a few days of nightmarish delusions I woke up to my life again, tired, twenty pounds lighter but happy to be back from a very dark place."

He later added, "I've played down just how close to dying I was, but in truth I was very close."'

Jeez, best wishes to him, I hope it's not something that's likely to re-occur.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.216
Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 06:20 pm:   

Blimey. First King, now Barker. You take care, Ramsey.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 06:20 pm:   

I normally wouldn't say it, but he needs to sue that dentist...
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 08:10 pm:   

He's been ill quite a lot over the past few years, hasn't he?
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.29.252.215
Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 11:14 pm:   

A very close call by the sound of it! I'm feeling weirdly creeped out by this news as I was just reading Poe's 'King Pest' last night and its nightmare imagery of death and disease personified as comically hideous demons kept making me think of Clive Barker above anyone else. I even mentioned this on "Quoth the Raven".

And what has happened to Stephen King?! I haven't heard a thing. Hang on... King Pest, Stephen King. What is going on?
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.152.215.75
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 12:10 am:   

Bloody hell. Poor Clive. It's somehow more shocking to learn after the fact how close someone was to death, that they'd been hovering like someone leaning their chair back too far for a week while we went on with our lives. Best wishes, Clive!
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.24.10.147
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 01:21 am:   

I'm very glad to hear that Barker recovered, and I hope the episode hasn't done him any real harm.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 03:45 am:   

Good lord! I do hope he makes a full recovery.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.70.184
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 07:45 am:   

Er, Stevie, King nearly died about a decade ago . . .
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.145.209.183
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 09:30 am:   

You made it sound like a more recent event... I assume you're talking about when he was hit by a car.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.29.252.215
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 09:56 am:   

I thought something had happened King like this week or something. Thank heavens for that!

Still, thinking about Clive and death - thanks to Poe - on Monday night and waking up to learn he had just come back from almost death was a creepy coincidence in Stevie world. Here's hoping he'll turn the experience, and wherever he travelled to, into even more great literature. For that is what the man writes. Read 'Imajica' and try to deny he's one of the greatest. Best wishes, Clive!
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.28.1
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 11:40 am:   

Good to have him back!
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.4.197
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 04:48 pm:   

Sadly I've just found out one of my favourite photographers, Sir Simon Marsden, has died at the age of 63. Even if you don't know the name you'll know his spooky infared gothic photographs from the covers of countless ghost story anthologies. http://www.marsdenarchive.com/
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.157.20.102
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 05:08 pm:   

Shit...
Can we have a window of opportunity, God, to know when people are about to die and be able to say goodbye to them, thank them?
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 05:32 pm:   

Who's to say you can't say hello and thanks to them afterward, Tony.

Isn't that right, God?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 05:41 pm:   

Sad to hear about Simon Marsden. I have a book of some of his photos - "Phantoms of the Isles" - right here on the shelf in front of me. As you say, David, he did great spooky gothic photos.

Glad Clive Barker is still with us after his health scare though. It's frightening how suddenly and unexpectedly something like that can hit someone.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.142.178
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 06:51 pm:   

Simon Marsden was featured on an episode of "Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror". That programme didn't last long. If they'd been alphabetical, they would have only made it to Aaron Aardvark.

63? I'm of an age to feel that 63 is NOTHING. And yet, just a few generations ago, in the working classes dying in ones 40s wasn't unusual.


"Things continued to improve in Britain in the early 20th century. In particular death in childhood became far less common and by the early 1930s life expectancy for a man at birth was about 60. By the 1950s it had risen to about 65. Things improved more slowly in the late 20th century but by 1971 life expectancy for a man in Britain was 68. For a woman it was 72. Today life expectancy at birth is 77 for a man in the UK and 81 for a woman."

(http://www.localhistories.org/life.html)
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.142.178
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 06:53 pm:   

"Can we have a window of opportunity, God, to know when people are about to die and be able to say goodbye to them, thank them?"

If people decided to adopt this as a definition of life, how much better would the world be?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.203.66
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 11:30 am:   

Proto - people say it and mean it but they put off. We had the police around yesterday dealing with my harassment case and they said they have to be more thorough about such things because of all the suicides. People can kill themselves out of the blue, not much build up. But people can also be pains in the arses and make themselves hard to like. We always put the people we really like first, i suppose.
BTW - in my 'Amazing Video' thread I mentioned my getting in touch with the director, telling him how much I loved the film, and he said my email was one of the nicest he had ever received and really made him feel what he was doing was worthwhile. I think I got through the window there.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 12:41 pm:   

As I said before, Tony, people thrive on genuine praise, and criticism should always be tempered with sincere suggestions of advice and best wishes unless one is deflating arrogance or pomposity - only then should we let rip.

My own personal creed in life is always to show honesty, tact and an acknowledgement of our shared humanity when expressing one's opinions and never, ever to succumb to sycophancy. That's why I hate these bloody "reality talent shows" so much. Pure hogwash and highly damaging to the human spirit both individually and collectively. Sermon over.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.156.233.255
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 12:43 pm:   

No, I agree.
I was so moved by that director's reaction to my email. It was like I'd stumbled on some significant lesson.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 03:34 pm:   

But people can also be pains in the arses and make themselves hard to like. We always put the people we really like first, i suppose....

Tony, I'm reposting this link again to a blog post from a couple months back, because I think you'd especially appreciate it; it's long, but it's utterly compelling, and ultimately moving. And makes me think Mr. Garton is a writer worth a second look (this mystery writer as well, if only we knew who he was!): http://preposteroustwaddlecock.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-writers-are-assholes-sai d-writer.html
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 03:39 pm:   

You're a good person, Tony. Honest about your feelings and your intuition to a sometimes startling degree and that is a rarity in these soulless times. Don't ever change. It's what makes you such a bloody great writer.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.180.70.140
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:43 am:   

Ten years on, Clive is still alive and well (and King!). This thread became something quite touching and nice, too. I had posted a link to something that was meaningful to me or significant... that thread, sadly, is now dead, I have no idea what it contained. Things come and go. I hope this thread still finds most of us alive and well, this ten years from its last entry.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.1.186
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 01:29 am:   

This thread is lovely, Craig.
Crazy - i watched Star Trek tonight and in it a woman dies on a standard mission to check out a new planet, but unusually we find she had a young son and the story dwells on the aftermath. We hear the boy's father died six years earlier. "So I'm alone," the boy says. "No," says Picard, taking hold of the boy's wrist, "Nobody on the Enterprise is alone." Then Data ponders why some deaths affect us more deeply than others, why don't we feel bad for everybody equally? "If we did, " says Riker, " It would likely have given us a more peaceful galaxy." The spirit of the planet sends the boy a copy of his mother to go live with her out of guilt for causing her death, but Picard forbids it, saying comfort and reassurance isn't life.
I feel I'm learning a lot about death today, in one big lump. I hope there isn't a reason. During my feeling the sense of pointlessness I've been feeling? Either way, thanks for summoning me back to the holodeck, Craig.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.1.186
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 02:09 am:   

Btw https://preposteroustwaddlecock.blogspot.com/2016/07/no-i-do-not-believe-in-were wolves.html?m=1
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.1.186
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 02:16 am:   

Btw https://preposteroustwaddlecock.blogspot.com/2016/07/no-i-do-not-believe-in-were wolves.html?m=1
And fuck, he started writing when he was twenty and has written 60 books! He was 20 roughly when I was, back in 1983/4. I'm so lazy.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.11.24.6
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2022 - 08:43 am:   

I'm still alive, so they say.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.29.147
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2022 - 09:08 am:   

Ramsey!

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