Tapping the Vein is a comic series of Clive Barker

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...

's short stories from the The Books of Blood published by Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market...

 between 1989 and 1992.

Issues

Issue	Title	The Books of Blood Volume	Adapted by	Art by
1	Human Remains	3	P. Craig Russell	P. Craig Russell
	Pig Blood Blues	1	Chuck Wagner and Fred Burke	Scott Hampton
2	Skins of the Fathers	2	Chuck Wagner and Fred Burke	Klaus Janson
	In the Hills, The Cities	1	Chuck Wagner and Fred Burke	John Bolton
3	The Midnight Meat Train	1	Chuck Wagner and Fred Burke	Denys Cowan and Michael Davis
	Scape-Goats	3	Bo Hampton	Bo Hampton
4	Hell's Event	2	Fred Burke	Steven Johnson, Alan Okamoto and Jim Pearson
	The Madonna	5	Fred Burke	Stan Woch, Mark Farmer and Fred Von Tobel
5	How Spoilers Bleed	6	Steve Niles and Fred Burke	Hector Gomez
	Down, Satan	4	Steve Niles	Tim Conrad

Related comics

Eclipse Books would continue to adapt various Clive Barker short stories in the early 1990s after the Tapping the Vein series came to an end. These include the following.

Dread

• Dread (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 2)
  • Adapted by Fred Burke
  • Art by Dan Brerton
• Down, Satan (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 4)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Tim Conrad

(A single volume featuring just Dread was also published)

Son of Celluloid

• Son of Celluloid (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 3)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Les Edwards

The Life of Death

• The Life of Death (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 6)
  • Adapted by Fred Burke
  • Art by Stewart Stanyard
• New Murders on the Rue Morgue (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 2)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Hector Gomez

Revelations

• Revelations (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 4)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Lionel Talaro
• Babel's Children (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 5)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Hector Gomez

(A single volume featuring just Revelations was also published)

The Yattering and Jack

• The Yattering and Jack (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 1)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by John Bolton
• How Spoilers Bleed (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 6)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles and Fred Burke
  • Art by Hector Gomez

(A single volume featuring just The Yattering and Jack was also published)

Rawhead Rex

• Rawhead Rex (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 3)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Les Edwards
• Twilight at the Towers (originally published in The Books of Blood Volume 6)
  • Adapted by Steve Niles
  • Art by Hector Gomez

Advertised, but never published was an adaption of The Age of Desire by P. Craig Russell and Tim Bradstreet, from The Books of Blood Volume 4. A revised version of that adaptation will soon be published by Desperado Comics.

Publication

As of 2010, Tapping the Vein was made available digitally exclusively through Devil's Due Digital

Devil's Due Digital

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External Links

• Tapping the Vein digital comic books from Devil's Due Digital
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