The Scarlet Gospels

· Macmillan
4.0
19 reviews
Ebook
288
Pages

About this ebook

"I think Clive Barker is so good that I am literally tongue-tied." Stephen King

THE GATES TO HELL ARE OPEN AND SOMETHING BECKONS ...

The last of Earth's magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to take over Hell. Meanwhile, Private Investigator Harry D' Amour is fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine. But while investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a portal between Hell and Earth.

When Harry's nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. After failing to enlist Harry to pen his Scarlet Gospels - the epistles chronicling the Hell Priest's grand coup - Pinhead instead captures Norma. Harry realizes he must go through Hell - literally - to save her.

MORE PRAISE FOR CLIVE BARKER

"A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination... an outstanding storyteller" JG Ballard

"To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful." Quentin Tarantino

"Barker is much more than genre writer" New York Times Book Review

"Barker dislocates your mind" Mail on Sunday

Ratings and reviews

4.0
19 reviews
Carl Newby
November 18, 2015
A good adventure, but let down by fairly undifferentiated characters. Plus the mythology and setting feels inconsistent with The Hellbound Heart. Hell seems different (definitely no Labyrinth/Leviathan of course) and no female Architect Cenobite (my favourite demon). Pinhead, also, whilst menacing in this, doesn't feel much like himself. It's true that he's not the focus of the first book. Still... Also the mortality of Hell's denizens contradicts the whole Frank escaping Hell plot. Not Clive Barker's best.
MC Lindsay
November 27, 2019
This is Clive Barkers "Death to Pinhead". There is more to Barker than Hellraiser. Not his best written book but the intention of this story is well recieved none-the-less. If you just want Pinhead to die already then this book is for you.
Shane Gallagher
June 8, 2015
Love the descripition of Hell- with its blend of the surreal, mundane and horrific. Well developed and likeable characters.
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About the author

Clive Barker is a legendary author, filmmaker, and visual artist. His acumen as a horror writer has been praised as some of the most influential to pop culture in recent times. Stephen King hailed Barker as "the future of horror." His Books of Blood series, films, comic books, art, and his novella The Hellbound Heart which first introduced the world to Pinhead and inspired the Hellraiser movies have amassed a global cult following and cemented their place in pop culture history. The Scarlet Gospels marks Barker's highly-anticipated return to horror fiction.

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