In The Scarlet Gospels, he does just that, providing us with an amazing trip from New York to Hell and back, playing with the blurring of lines that sometimes happens between this world and the next, usually around Harry D’Amour, a detective drawn unwillingly to the supernatural-a man who, as quoted by his creator: “ he feels the tension between the ordinary world and the supernatural world”. Wes Craven called Clive Barker “ Hell’s anatomist”. “I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination-Imagination, the real and Eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more.” - William Blake, Jerusalem, 77. But read on for more about what I thought of The Scarlet Gospels. If you’re looking for the short review, this is it. This means this advance review will be relatively short but I’ll try to address some of the book’s origins and how I felt reading it, below. The book is a return to form from Clive Barker, extremely enjoyable and I thoroughly recommend you pre-order this right now. This review is spoiler-free, so for now at least, until the book is out, we will do our best to prevent spoiling anyone out there. Bloody and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers will be in awe of this epic visionary tale of horror. evil: Harry D’Amour, the hard-boiled detective from the movie Lord of Illusions, goes head to head with the Hellpriest Pinhead, his first literary appearance since The Hellbound Heart in 1986. The Scarlet Gospels is Clive Barker in true terrifying form, taking readers back to his most iconic characters in a battle of good vs. The blurb on the first page of the book reads the following:

I am certain I will read it at least once again before the official release date, as I am also currently working on an in-depth article about the whole process of how the Scarlet Gospels came to be, so stay tuned for that. My ARC copy ended on page 360. I got my copy on Thursday night (Feb 5th) and had it finished by Saturday afternoon. It’s with great pleasure that I recently got an Advance Reader’s Edition of The Scarlet Gospels, the new long-awaited Clive Barkernovel coming out on May 19th from St Martin’s Press you can pre-order it from Macmillan, Amazon, and just recently it also became available for Special Pre-order at the website store.Īccording to Revelations, the US Edition will be 368 pages and the UK edition 288, undoubtedly due to different formats.

The scarlet gospels review