Barker develops Poe ghost tale

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12:00 AM, 30-NOVEMBER-06
Barker Develops Poe Ghost Tale
Horror master Clive Barker is partnering with Walden Media to create an original young-adult thriller centered on the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Barker is set to develop the story and produce the project, with Barker's Seraphim Films' Anthony DiBlasi and Joseph Daley executive-producing.

The film will revolve around a group of teenagers who attempt to uncover what happened during the last two weeks of Poe's life. They inadvertently trigger a curse that unlocks Poe's nightmares, from which they must escape.

The Poe project marks the first pairing of Barker and Walden Media. Barker ventured into the children's world with the book The Thief of Always, published in 1992 and in development at 20th Century Fox. Most recently, Barker published the first two of four novels from his children's fantasy series The Books of Abarat.

Barker will also be writing and producing a remake of his film Hellraiser for Dimension Films. He and his Midnight Picture Show horror label are developing and packaging several of the short stories from his horror collection The Books of Blood.