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Did the Nightbreed monsters all have a common origin?

Towards the end of the Great War, with both sides exhausted, a force appeared on the battlefields of Europe that was witnessed by many but reported by few. The Wilding, or Beserker, was developed by German occult scientists as a warrior class designed to exterminate the enemy, but they comprehended little (and cared less) for the niceties of battle-lines. Within a month of their release (during which time their brutal, nightly assaults acheived the status of legend), the German High Command ordered their dispatch, as they were massacring at least as many German battalions as British. Several Beserkers were indeed killed, but a handful - under the hypnotic influence of a bastard son of Queen Catherine of All the Russias - found their way to Midian, where they are kept in the deepest regions of the underworld, their appetite for massacre stoked by deprivation.
.............Did Clive Barker read G-8?

In the secret world of Lists, there are few more inaccessible to the general public than the Master List of Those Transformed By Meteorites, with the possible exception of the List of Answered Prayers, and the List of Those On No List. Giblin and Veale (these are not their true names, which they refuse to tell anyone, in order to protect their children) are on that former list. The meteor that wreaked such havoc with their cells fell on their pig-farm in the autumn of 1969, its baleful influence making them over in the course of a single night. What it did to the pigs is not on record, though on occasion Giblin makes his way overground and watches the night sky for flying farrow.
..............Did Clive Barker read the Wold-Newton works of Philip Jose Farmer? Did one of the Arsene Lupin stories feature a mutagenic meteorite? Did a Doc Savage story feature such a meteorite?

To clarify, the Nightbreed monsters never appeared before Nightbreed (other than in the novel Cabal also by Barker), but they seem to have had independent origins. Admittedly, some of these origins stand as a bit derivative. One of them sounds as if Clive Barker read or heard of the G-8 series (which often invovled monsters fashioned by the Central Powers) and the other used the meteorite mutation theme (similar to Mo-Gwei, an Arsene Lupin tale, and the Wold Newton universe).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-8_(character)