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The Scarlet Gospels

By: Clive Barker
Narrated by: John Lee
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About this listen

The long-anticipated new novel from best-selling author Clive Barker.

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 enlist Harry as one of his Scarlet Gospels, an elite group of indefatigable messengers who will witness his takeover of hell, Pinhead captures Norma, and Harry realizes he must go through hell - literally - to save her.

©2015 Clive Barker (P)2015 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Ghosts Horror Thriller & Suspense Scary Haunted Suspense

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Critic reviews

"Gruesome, madly entertaining, eminently picturesque in all sorts of crazy ways, this is Barker in fifth gear and a set of adventures his fans will relish." (Maxim Jakubowski, lovereading.co.uk)
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I found the story to be less impactful than I would have expected from a Barker book but I think the reader made it worse. every voice ended up sounding like a characture of a breathless old stereotypical new yorker.

Not Impressed

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Great narrator sadly a few of his character voices didn't sit right with me. A bigger voice cast would have been preferred

Need more

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From start to finish, from the master of fantasy horror who always delivers.
Loved every sentence.

Brilliant

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prior knowledge of the previous books or movies isn't needed, the book works well enough as a stand alone story.
The horror is balanced out nicely by the humour but not overtaken by it.

Finely crafted story, very well performed.

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Fantastic however a little poorly narrated as I felt the characters 'voices' are too similar to easily distinguish/recognise

Clive Barker back to his best!

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Thank you this was very enjoyable. Vivid characters well narrated. I look forward to hearing more.

My first audio book

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Having waited so long with baited breath for a new book from Clive Barker, I confess I set myself up to be underwhelmed. I'm left with a sense of "I don't know what exactly I expected, but I don't think it was that."

I will try the story again in hard copy and properly allow my imagination to run with it.

I'm sorry to say I found the narrator rather hard work. He could well have done better to allow his audience's intelligence to supply the characters' accents, for instance. His interpretation was so completely at odds with my earlier experiences of Harry and Norma that it marred my enjoyment of them, of the new people that were introduced in this story and consequently of the experience as a whole.

It suffered from being so long awaited.

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so good. Lucifer oh my word. cant wait to listen to more by him . yes !

barker does it again

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The scarlet gospels is my favourite book of the Hellraiser universe. it's very different than any other Barker book and I think tells more about the cenobitic order, the politics of hell than other dark fantasies.

John Lee is my favourite narrator, can't describe how much I love his voice, accent, the way I can tell the difference between characters as he reads. He brings a book to life.

A very biased review

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lobed the story of the hell priest and Satan would make a excellent TV show just saying

Hell

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