tzarinna said:
He's so focused on the Abarat trilogy
*le sigh*
I'm waiting on him to finish up Book of the Art trilogy. His last tours he never even came to DC,what is up with that
I've been foresaken
Actually he's been busy for some time with The Scarlet Gospels, which originally was planned as a short story collection, but has changed and turned into a long novel:
2007 will see the publication of The Scarlet Gospels from the pen of Clive Barker. Setting Pinhead against another of Barker's literary creations, Harry D'Amour, in an apocalyptic setting, we are promised a metaphysical but final ending to the High Priest of Hell. At least, an ending on the page... We suspect that Pinhead will be drawing breath on screen long after the final page has been turned on him by his original creator - the iconic leader of the Order of the Gash outlasting his maker, alive in the hearts and minds of those who have adopted him as more than the sum of his parts...
"I'd certainly been thinking for a very long time about how I would eventually bring eloquent and respectful closure to the life of a character who has been very good to me. But then I realised that to be respectful and all that good stuff, I also needed to be epic because there was a sense that there was an epic structure somewhere behind him that the films didn't show and my original thought was that I would simply tell a tale of closure that was the size of the tale which introduced him - thirty thousand words - and then I thought that does him a terrible injustice, because we are teased over the films with a sense that there is something, some huge structure there in which he belongs, in which he has a significant part and how can I write that, how can I bring him to his final act without first taking him, taking my readers through what that system is - in other words, taking them down to Hell and showing them what the Order of the Cenobites are and where he belongs in them and what the consequences of rebellion on his part might be, and so on and so forth...
"You can start this book and have read nothing, seen nothing - it's fine. If you have seen the first movie, that's fine. If you've seen the second movie, probably that's fine too. If you've read the novella - The Hellbound Heart - surely, that's fine too."
Abarat. Abarat. Abarat. Abarat... Abarat!
By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 13 and 20 March 2006 (note: full text here)
"It’s going to be a big book now – I never thought it would be a big book. But once I started to write it, I realised that in a way I knew a lot of things about hell and a lot about Pinhead, that character, that had never appeared in any movie or comic book or anything. These are things which are in my head – and it had been in my head for many years – but that I have never written about. So I’m putting all of that into the book. I’m doing my very best to really develop the mythology and to make this Clive Barker’s definitive book of hell...
"So its called the 'Scarlet Gospels' - the thought that I have had for this collection of short fiction - but it actually seems to belong to this novel - it seems to want to belong to this novel... it will be a single volume. This will be a novel on its own I think. And then we will do the collection of short fiction at a later point, I have got a lot of short fiction, which we have not been published.
"And what I haven’t realized until I have started writing, was how passionate I felt about the character of Pinhead. I suppose part of it is that I become very familiar with the image of the – like everybody has – the toys, the game, obviously the films and so on. But when I actually went back and wrote about him, wrote in his voice, as it were, I realized that he became more interesting than he had a chance to be in most of the movies. Most of the movies make him into just a simple villain, who is just there, doing this thing, he’s there to cause trouble. And I wanted to write something more complex about him, I think he is quite a complex character. You know he isn’t Freddy Krueger, he isn’t Jason Voorhees, he is something more eloquent and possibly elegant. And so I really wanted to explore this character and really give him a chance to speak one last time - very eloquently."
Clive Barker On The Phone
By [Thomas Hemmerich], That's Clive!, 29 March 2005
"Here's been this essentially two-dimensional being... taking this character that has been denuded of any elegance that he may have once had and coarsened over a period of movies and putting him into a book in which Christ appears and Lucifer appears has been quite a challenge... My hope is that a little way into this book people will almost entirely forget the cinematic incarnation of this fellow and start to think of him as a literary character again."
You Called, He Came...
By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2 and 3 June 2006
I know about Phil and Sarah's Revelation site, as well 
