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. The story retains the gory, visceral style Barker introduced in his anthology series The Books of Blood.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. The original novella was re-released as a standalone title by HarperPaperbacks in 1991, after the success of the first film, along with an audiobook recorded by Clive Barker and published by Simon & Schuster Audioworks in 1988. This character appeared in later Barker prose with the official names "the Hell Priest" and "the Cold Man". One Cenobite in particular, nameless in the original novella but nicknamed " Pinhead" by the production crew and fans, became a popular villain among horror movie fans. November 1986, Dark Harvest, HarperPaperbacksĪlong with introducing Barker's Cenobites, the story was the basis for the 1987 film Hellraiser (written and directed by Barker) and its franchise.
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