Post by darkglobe on Nov 5, 2008 18:13:46 GMT -5
On the official Clive Barker site, I've not seen hide nor hare of this mentioned - but I believe it is (or was) a real project at one time. Anybody got an update?
From Wiki
The Scarlet Gospels is a novel by horror/fantasy writer Clive Barker, yet to be released (according to a april 2008 interview it may not be finished for another few years). Originally it was intended to be the title of a selection of short stories, including a novella-sized story that would have been a sequel to his groundbreaking horror story, first told in a novella called The Hellbound Heart, and then in a highly successful feature film called Hellraiser. As Barker got further and further into writing the story, he decided that the material deserved more, and gradually, the other non-related short stories were put aside in favour of the main story becoming a single self-contained novel of its own.
Plot summary
The story centers on two characters Barker has used in his previous work. The first is the private investigator Harry D'Amour, a character seen in several previous stories. The second, Harry's adversary in The Scarlet Gospels, is known only as Pinhead, leader of the Cenobites, a pseudo-priestly order in Hell devoted to exploring pain and pleasure - at least, pleasure as they themselves define it. The first meeting between these two characters actually occurs in the past, when Harry is twelve or thirteen years old and in Catholic school, and this encounter with Pinhead is said to be a prime cause in Harry's disturbed demeanor later.
In the present day, a friend of Harry's is taken hostage by Pinhead, and Harry, accompanied by four mismatched companions (including the blind medium Norma Paine, who has appeared in Barker's stories before) and an animal, must track his friend down into the lowest levels of Hell. Roughly two thirds of the story will take place in Hell itself, and much is expected to be learned about the nature of Hell, its creator, its inhabitants, about the Order of Cenobites and Pinhead's place in it.
From Wiki
The Scarlet Gospels is a novel by horror/fantasy writer Clive Barker, yet to be released (according to a april 2008 interview it may not be finished for another few years). Originally it was intended to be the title of a selection of short stories, including a novella-sized story that would have been a sequel to his groundbreaking horror story, first told in a novella called The Hellbound Heart, and then in a highly successful feature film called Hellraiser. As Barker got further and further into writing the story, he decided that the material deserved more, and gradually, the other non-related short stories were put aside in favour of the main story becoming a single self-contained novel of its own.
Plot summary
The story centers on two characters Barker has used in his previous work. The first is the private investigator Harry D'Amour, a character seen in several previous stories. The second, Harry's adversary in The Scarlet Gospels, is known only as Pinhead, leader of the Cenobites, a pseudo-priestly order in Hell devoted to exploring pain and pleasure - at least, pleasure as they themselves define it. The first meeting between these two characters actually occurs in the past, when Harry is twelve or thirteen years old and in Catholic school, and this encounter with Pinhead is said to be a prime cause in Harry's disturbed demeanor later.
In the present day, a friend of Harry's is taken hostage by Pinhead, and Harry, accompanied by four mismatched companions (including the blind medium Norma Paine, who has appeared in Barker's stories before) and an animal, must track his friend down into the lowest levels of Hell. Roughly two thirds of the story will take place in Hell itself, and much is expected to be learned about the nature of Hell, its creator, its inhabitants, about the Order of Cenobites and Pinhead's place in it.