Songs of Metal and Flesh
Hellraiser Book 3
Written by Peter Atkins
Art by Dave Dorman, Lurene Haines & Phil Felix
Published by Epic Comics
Music and hell have been closely associated since at least the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church strictly controlled the use of the tritone, or Devil’s Interval. A wide range of musicians, from Nicolò Paganini to seminal bluesman Robert Johnson, are among those said to have made Faustian bargains to attain their talent and fame. These stories are, by now, so familiar as to be clichés.
Clive Barker wonderfully reimagined hell and deals with the devil with his novella The Hellbound Heart and Hellraiser, his own cinematic adaptation. While the sequels kept coming, to ever-diminishing returns, the initial Hellraiser comic series from Marvel’s Epic imprint remained true to Barker’s original vision.
Peter Atkins, screenwriter of Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (a.k.a the only sequel that...
Hellraiser Book 3
Written by Peter Atkins
Art by Dave Dorman, Lurene Haines & Phil Felix
Published by Epic Comics
Music and hell have been closely associated since at least the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church strictly controlled the use of the tritone, or Devil’s Interval. A wide range of musicians, from Nicolò Paganini to seminal bluesman Robert Johnson, are among those said to have made Faustian bargains to attain their talent and fame. These stories are, by now, so familiar as to be clichés.
Clive Barker wonderfully reimagined hell and deals with the devil with his novella The Hellbound Heart and Hellraiser, his own cinematic adaptation. While the sequels kept coming, to ever-diminishing returns, the initial Hellraiser comic series from Marvel’s Epic imprint remained true to Barker’s original vision.
Peter Atkins, screenwriter of Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (a.k.a the only sequel that...
- 10/3/2014
- by Steven Fouchard
- SoundOnSight
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