Clive Barker’s THE SCARLET GOSPELS Deluxe Limited Edition Details / Cover Art

2015/05/24 23:49:32 +00:00 | Derek Anderson

Readers can now get reacquainted with Pinhead and Harry D'Amour in St. Martin's first edition hardcover of Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels, and collectors can look forward to Earthling Publications' upcoming deluxe limited edition of Barker's new novel.

Teased on Facebook and slated for a late summer / early fall debut, the numbered hardcover of Earthling Publications' signed, deluxe limited edition of The Scarlet Gospels (limited to 500 copies) is now available to pre-order for $250. Collectors can also inquire about purchasing one of the lettered hardcovers of The Scarlet Gospels, which are limited to 26 copies (price to be determined).

The cover art shown below was designed by Malleus Rock Art Lab, and the interior artwork featuring Pinhead was created by Edward Miller. In addition to the details listed here, Earthling Publications' deluxe limited edition of The Scarlet Gospels will also include one more bonus section (to be revealed soon):

"Synopsis: 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 takeover 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 rift between hell and the real world. When nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. 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.

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. 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.”

Earthling’s deluxe, signed, limited hardcover edition includes:

Color dustjacket art by Malleus Rock Art Lab (who did the NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT and JACQUELINE ESS posters)

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)

A related short story by Barker (in appendix)

Scanned original manuscript pages, with hand edits (in appendix)

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

An afterword by Mark Miller entitled “A Testament on the Gospels,” which discusses the development of the novel

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

Only several hundred copies will be printed to ensure the collectible nature of this limited run; there will be no “gift” edition, no increase in this print run, and no subsequent printings."

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