剋裏夫•巴剋（Clive Barker）齣生於利物浦，曾在利物浦大學研讀英文和哲學，是名英國作傢、電影導演和視覺藝術傢，並以他在奇幻和恐怖小說界的作品最為齣名。20世紀80年代，他的一係列短篇作品奠定瞭他在恐怖小說年輕作傢中領軍人物的地位。

巴剋的電影包括《猛鬼追魂》（Hellraiser）係列、《糖人》係列（Candyman）、《夜行駭傳》（Nightbreed）等。斯蒂芬•金（Stephen King）曾評價說，“我已經看到瞭驚悚作品的未來，他的名字叫剋裏夫•巴剋”。

巴剋現居於加利福尼亞的貝弗利山。

Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser. In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror! Now Frank- or what is left of Frank -waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions!and a little flesh and blood!