Occult detective Harry D'Amour travels to New Orleans, having been hired by a recently deceased magician (via a medium named Norma Paine) to destroy evidence of his occult activities before his family can discover them in his home. He degrades and massacres all of the magicians save for one, Felixson, whom he enslaves. The Hell Priest arrives, having been alerted by the spell that resurrected Ragowski. Their only hope of avoiding his fate, he says, is to simply give the Priest the location of all of their grimoires and talismans.
Ragowski informs them the Priest is determined to obtain every source of magic known on Earth and is too powerful to be defeated by so few magicians. After years of this, the last remaining magicians gather to resurrect Ragowski, a member of their order killed by the Hell Priest three years before. The Hell Priest, a demonic Cenobite known to some of them as "Pinhead" (a nickname the Cenobite abhors), is murdering the world's true magicians, practitioners of true magic. The book was the first in which the Hell Priest was officially given a name by Clive Barker, who disliked the nickname 'Pinhead' given his character by others. Occult detective Harry D'Amour must journey into Hell to rescue his friend and stop the Hell Priest's plans. The book concerns the Hell Priest, the demonic Cenobite nicknamed "Pinhead", and his efforts to gain power. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.The Scarlet Gospels is a 2015 horror novel by author Clive Barker which acts as a continuation to both his previous novella The Hellbound Heart (which introduced his popular Cenobite characters that then starred in the Hellraiser franchise) and his canon of Harry D'Amour stories. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world.
an outstanding storyteller" - JG Ballard "To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'. He makes the rest of us look like we've been asleep for the past ten years." - Stephen King "A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination. Barker tears into it hungrily." - The New York Times, "I think Clive Barker is so good that I am literally tongue-tied. a fine premise for a horror epic: a kind of blasphemous version of "Paradise Lost," otherworldly history repeating itself as gory farce. The Washington Post "In Barker's work, beauty and evil are an old married couple, living together comfortably, even serenely, with no secrets left from one another. The Scarlet Gospels assumes a prominent place in evolving catalog of mythic imaginings. Its visionary scenario and detailed account of apocalyptic events are as grand and sweeping as anything the earlier books had to offer. Offers the pleasures of a tightly compressed epic.
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