All copies will be signed by Clive Barker, offset printed in two colors, and created using fine materials.

An “outtakes” section containing several scenes deleted from the original manuscript that never made it into the final text, along with notes about each scene **(in appendix).

Scanned original manuscript pages, with hand edits (in appendix).An afterword by Mark Miller, which discusses the development of the novel.Full color interior illustrations by Edward Miller (a pseudonym for Les Edwards, who painted the original movie poster for NIGHTBREED and illustrated the graphic novels 'Son of Celluloid' and 'Rawhead Rex' by Barker).Color dustjacket art by Malleus Rock Art Lab (who did the NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT and JACQUELINE ESS posters).In the author’s own words, it is “a HORROR NOVEL with the graphic violence and perverse eroticism of the most intense tales from the Books of Blood.”Įarthling’s deluxe, signed, limited hardcover edition includes: In this long-awaited, epic horror novel, Clive Barker brings together two of his iconic characters - the long-beleaguered occult detective Harry D'Amour, and Pinhead - in a tale set on Earth and in Hell. After failing to recruit Harry to write his Scarlet Gospels, which will chronicle his takeover of Hell, Pinhead captures Norma to force Harry's hand and Harry must go through hell - literally - to save her. When nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. But while investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a rift between hell and the real world. 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. 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 takeover Hell. The last of Earth's magicians are living in fear. The Gospels are coming.The gates to Hell are open and something beckons. Barker's horror will make your worst nightmares seem like bedtime stories. Bloody, terrifying, and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers alike will not be disappointed by the epic, visionary tale that is The Scarlet Gospels. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it's everything they've begged for and more. The Scarlet Gospels takes listeners back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Listen to chapter one of Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels audiobook, read by John Lee.

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker