Vangeli di Sangue: (The Scarlet Gospels)

by Clive Barker

Overview

Prima edizione Italiana del romanzo The Scarlet Gospels, l'ultimo capitolo della saga di Hellraiser, il sequel di The Hellbound Heart (Schiavi dell'Inferno) col ritorno di Pinhead, personaggio iconicoe signore dei cenobiti, insieme a un altro noto personaggio barkeriano, il detective dell'occultoHarry D'Amour. Una discesa nelle viscere dell'Inferno,attraverso la città dei dannati, il monastero dei cenobiti, tribù di demoni, creature abissalie la cattedrale di Lucifero,fino alloscontrofinale tra due creature archetipali. Pinhead stavolta troverà un degno avversario. Traduzione di Francesca Noto. Illustrazione di copertina di Giampaolo Frizzi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788899569556
Publisher:	Independent Legions Publishing
Publication date:	07/16/2017
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Nothing ever begins....Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter woven into patterns that may have only this in common: that hidden among them is a filigree that will with time become a world.

It must be arbitrary, then, the place at which we choose to embark.

Somewhere between a past half forgotten and a future as yet only glimpsed."

And here is as good a place as any to begin with Clive Barker, the author of strange and scary stories such as the novel that begins above, Weaveworld. Barker is probably best known as the creator of the Hellraiser franchise -- which began with the novella The Hellbound Heart; later became the 1987 horror classic that Barker directed; and was then a comic from 1989-1994. He accomplished the print-to-film-to-comic trifecta again with Nightbreed, the film version of which was released in 1990.

Barker drew attention with his early '80s story volumes, Books of Blood. His first novel, The Damnation Game, not only put him on a par authors such as Stephen King but earned praise from those same authors. He is widely admired for weaving into his scary stories complex themes about human nature and desires.

In addition to crafting his signature novels, a chilling amalgam of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, Barker is an accomplished artist. (His comic Ectokids is in development as a movie project at Nickelodeon.) He has also written for children -- a fact that surprises readers familiar only with his disturbing adult oeuvre. But, in fact, his children's tales (The Thief of Always, Abarat, etc.) are among his most imaginative.

No matter what his audience or medium, Barker's stories are effective because it's clear that he takes his work, and his genre, very seriously -- and expects the same from his audience. In an interview with Barnes & Noble.com, he told us "[Fantasy and horror] liberate us into a world in which our frustrations and our repressions can take an exoticized form, rendering them more safely and also, if we dare, more approachable."

Hometown:

Los Angeles

Date of Birth:

October 5, 1952

Place of Birth:

Liverpool, England

Education:

Liverpool University

Website:

http://www.clivebarker.info