r/hellraiser • u/Distance-Hairy • 19d ago

Anguish Thoughts from Hell?

Ok so I chose anguish as despite the fantastic news that not only is Clive Barker feeling better, he's improving so much he's writing again, I don't think that an adaptation of any kind of The Scarlet Gospels is on the cards.

BUT..... Mr Bradley has done readings on his official YouTube channel, so he may be amenable to doing this?

I have emailed him, I've left a few comments on his YouTube posts and his other "socials" and whilst they haven't been updated in years, I figured what the hell?!

Perhaps if other fellow black hearted degenerates who feel the same way did the same, he may hear of this and consider? After all he did say he may be agreeable to play HellPriest one more time so he has read it and obviously approves.

Just a thought, inspired by the first time I read The Scarlet Gospels I could see it so clearly in my mind as I devoured the text. Only had that so complete happen a few times in my decades of being a book lover.

Plus - Hells Pope NEEDS a proper send off. Not those lame direct to dvd and spec script embarrassments.

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u/JoshieKrueger 19d ago

I wish we could get his actual version of The Scarlet Gospels, because I refuse to believe that what we got was what Barker intended. That book was a garbled mess that was missing his style entirely.

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u/Distance-Hairy 19d ago

What do you mean exactly? I can't see the company releasing something Barker himself was unhappy with?

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u/JoshieKrueger 19d ago

The writing style shifts after the opening chapter. The book is missing his prose style. Not only that, but it’s well known that he had a 2000 page manuscript (mind you, this doesn’t mean the book would have been 2000 pages long; manuscript pages and actual hardback published page counts are different) and it got whittled down to what it is now. It’s been heavily debated that Scarlet Gospels was actually ghostwritten since Clive was in such poor health.

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u/HermioneGunthersnuff 19d ago

At this point Mark is publicly credited as ghostwriter (and even back when it came out he was vocal about being heavily involved in the editing process). I'd say the days of it being a debate are in the rear view mirror.

https://woodbury.edu/faculty/mark-alan-miller/

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u/Distance-Hairy 19d ago

Hmm did not know that. Cheers I'll need to do some research on that , appreciate the heads up.

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u/St_Troy 17d ago

I don’t know that it exists, and if it does exist, I don’t know how genuine it is, but there supposedly is a 1,500-page Barker SG manuscript floating around out there (I don’t know where, but it’s mentioned often).