Earlier this evening Barker posted the following from his Twitter account: “Research day for polishes on a novella for the collection of short fiction to be delivered soon: ‘Black Is the Devil’s Rainbow’.”
What’s that, you ask? With a little bit of digging, the following came up on the official Clive Barker Info Site:
Black Is the Devil’s Rainbow: Tales of a Journeyman
…These stories were originally intended to accompany the ‘Pinhead vs. Harry’ novella which grew into the full-size novel now known as ‘The Scarlet Gospels’. Originally planned a decade ago as providing a home for all the previously uncollected short stories, together with a whole bunch of new pieces of short fiction, this has recently taken on a more important role in collecting Clive’s meditations, poems, and selected shorter pieces. ‘The Scarlet Gospels’ was a title originally planned for a standalone collection of erotic poetry and prose, then (like other titles before it, including ‘Everville’ and ‘Saint Sinner’) had the title recycled and was planned as the title-piece novella within the collection before it outgrew its place here.
Clive suspects a possible Halloween 2010 publication is now in the cards for ‘Black Is the Devil’s Rainbow’…
‘Nuff said. We are so there.