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A Goodreads user asked Clive Barker:

You write horror, but when you have time to read do you also read horror or is there a different genre you prefer?

Clive Barker I beg to differ. I don't think I write horror. I am a man who invents worlds of dark, and light, and somewhere in between, but the idea of writing something just to horrify people is rather trite, I think. I want to distress and disturb and wake people up to the condition of the state we find ourselves in. And those are the kinds of stories I prefer to read as well.

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