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The Scarlet Gospels

A Terrifying Duel Between Good and Evil - The Perfect Horror Novel

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The Scarlet Gospels

By: Clive Barker
Narrated by: John Lee
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The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back to the early days of two of Clive Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time.

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.

‘A damned good read’ – The Guardian

Praise for Clive Barker:

‘Clive Barker is so good that I am literally tongue-tied’ – Stephen King

‘Barker dislocates your mind’ – Mail On Sunday

‘A powerful and fascinating writer’ – J.G. Ballard

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Critic reviews

Barker dislocates your mind
Pinhead has always possessed enormous melancholy grandeur, and Harry D’Amour is a significant noir presence. The story that unfolds between them is meticulously framed, endlessly inventive and spun with rollicking good humour . . . a damned good read.
Clive Barker is so good that I am literally tongue-tied. He makes ther rest of us look like we've been asleep for the past ten years (Stephen King, author of The Shining, Misery and Fairy Tale)
A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination . . . an outstanding storyteller (J.G. Ballard, author of Crash, High-Rise and Empire of the Sun)
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must get if you love hellraiser univers I only wish I had got it sooner

brilliant

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An amazing tale by my favourite author. The narration is spot on. If you fancy a trip to hell and back, this is the book for you.

Just fantastic

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Thoroughly enjoyable. Truly outstanding descriptions paint an amazing picture in the mind. I could visualise every word. An absolute must for any Hellraiser fan!

Fascinating story

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Having waited so long with baited breath for a new book from Clive Barker, I confess I set myself up to be underwhelmed. I'm left with a sense of "I don't know what exactly I expected, but I don't think it was that."

I will try the story again in hard copy and properly allow my imagination to run with it.

I'm sorry to say I found the narrator rather hard work. He could well have done better to allow his audience's intelligence to supply the characters' accents, for instance. His interpretation was so completely at odds with my earlier experiences of Harry and Norma that it marred my enjoyment of them, of the new people that were introduced in this story and consequently of the experience as a whole.

It suffered from being so long awaited.

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lobed the story of the hell priest and Satan would make a excellent TV show just saying

Hell

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