![]() ![]() It’s here, I think, Barker’s trouble begins. (The Devil, in this version of Hell, having been absent for some time.) ![]() At least, until he slaughters the rest of his order and embarks on a new career as would-be King of Hell. That’s Pinhead, to you and me - or the Lead Cenobite, if you’re a purist, as that was how he was credited in the first Hellraiser film (while in The Hellbound Heart, he wasn’t even the lead) - but apparently the entity in question prefers to be addressed as the Hell Priest. For here, in a literary kill-off move that’s surely been played out too many times for anyone to believe it’ll work, Barker does a Reichenbach Falls on his most famous creation: the Hell Priest. Clive Barker’s new novel may open with the resurrection of a magician, but its primary purpose is not to revive the magical past, it’s to lay a ghost. ![]()
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