![]() ![]() ![]() The earlier origin of the quote is Biblical: “I use a quote from Hamlet in the story: Sweets to the sweet,” he notes. Hellraiser’s Pinhead would later share some of these characteristics and be all the more terrifying for it. The character of the Candyman draws upon a motif Clive had long been developing since writing his 1973 play, Hunters in the Snow - that of the calmly spoken gentleman-villain - who seduces Helen with the poetry of Shakespeare and the measured rhythms of a lover. ![]() “This was about why we write those tales, why we hear those tales. “I was writing about the experience of horror,” says Clive. ![]() To live in people’s dreams to be whispered at street corners, but not have to be.’ Marrying common elements and fears - the hook-handed man, castration, the uncatchable killer and urban brutality - the story explores not only the narrative of an urban myth but the very nature of mythology, playing on the fame of a whispered myth as it spreads: Originally published in 1985 in Volume Five of the Books of Blood, Clive was inspired by cautionary tales told to him as a child by his grandmother. The best tales get told again and again, and Clive’s short story, The Forbidden, filmed as Candyman and its movie sequels, falls squarely in that slot. ![]()
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